$42 Buys a Whole Prime Rib. At Butchr Bar, It Buys Seven Ounces.

Butchr Bar's dry-aged bone-in tomahawk is posted at $6 an ounce; Burbank's Smoke House sells a tri-tip sandwich for $26.

The prime rib at the Smoke House in Burbank runs $42, served au jus, and the tri-tip sandwich under it goes for $26. Both numbers sit on Eater LA's steakhouse map, updated September 10, 2026. We counted 18 restaurants on it.

Now run the arithmetic the list invites. Butchr Bar, on Glendale Boulevard, prices its dry-aged bone-in tomahawk at $6 an ounce, per the same map. So the money that covers an entire prime rib plate in Burbank covers seven ounces of steak there, before a side, before a martini, before tax.

Three rooms joined the list this round and one left it, Eater LA reports. Off: Boa, in West Hollywood. On: Damon's Steak House, the tiki bar and chophouse on North Brand Boulevard in Glendale; the Malibu location of the California chain Lucky's; and Alto, the Argentine-Uruguayan restaurant in Studio City from chef Esteban Klenzi and Juana Castellanos.

Most of the other entries are described by cut rather than by price — a 42-ounce dry-aged tomahawk at BLVD Steak in Sherman Oaks, a 50-ounce dry-aged prime porterhouse at Chi Spacca on Melrose Avenue, a 36-ounce bone-in New York steak from the same kitchen, a 10-ounce flat iron and a 12-ounce filet at Gwen in Hollywood. If you want those figures before you sit down, they live on the restaurants' own menus.

Weight is the whole game at that end of the list. Eater's editors describe the porcini-rubbed bone-in rib-eye at Terra, the rooftop grill on top of Eataly in Century City, as enough for a full table, and they read Chi Spacca's porterhouse the same way. Split four ways, the per-person number lands somewhere very different from the menu line, which is the part nobody does in their head at the door.

My pick on price is the oldest thing here. The Smoke House turned 77 this year, it's one of only two entries on the map carrying a posted number, and $42 prime rib plus a $26 tri-tip sandwich is arithmetic that doesn't need a spreadsheet. The critics put it on the list for the cherry-red booths and the neon; I'd put it there for the receipt.

The rest of the map leans old, too. The Golden Bull has been serving chops on West Channel Road in Santa Monica since 1949. Carlitos Gardel, the Argentinian grill on Melrose Avenue, is 29. Dear John's in Culver City extended its lease in 2024, which is the closest thing a mid-century steakhouse gets to good news.

Damon's is at 317 North Brand Boulevard in Glendale. Alto is at 12969 Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. Both take reservations, and you'll want one.

Source: la.eater.com, retrieved September 13, 2026.