Jeff Ruby's Louisville Llc

Best Of Award Of Excellence - Wine Spectator, 2015 America's Top 100 Steakhouses - OpenTable, 2014 Best Steakhouse - Lousville Magazine, 2015

Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby presides over glitzy, expensive restaurants that would be perfectly appropriate on the Las Vegas strip. He has also added some Kentucky charm to his Louisville establishment with one wood paneled dining room displaying a horse racing décor. Among the signature out-size steaks is an 80-ounce aged bone-in “hatchet” rib-eye (an eye-popping $80, à la carte)....

Glittering glass, potted palms, red velvet banquettes and a bustling waitstaff provide the high-energy, Vegas ambience. Only the slots are missing. As if the thick-cut, house-aged steaks (several weighing in over a pound each) didn't allow…

Traditional steakhouse (albeit one with a sushi and raw bar) serves expense-account types, old money, and special-occasion celebrants—but not OJ who was turned away on a post-murder, pre-robbery Derby weekend. Deep wine list, professional waitstaff that's not just biding time between theater auditions, and perfectly cooked high-grade flesh fulfill genre's expectations.

The classic steakhouse and seafood selections represent the best dishes offered at sister Jeff Ruby establishments: Alaskan king crab legs, Prime beef aged on site, Caribbean lobster tail. The all-star line-up is complemented by a sushi bar and nightly entertainment. This is the restaurant where O.J. Simpson was asked to leave before the Kentucky Derby by owner Ruby.

The first true outside of the company's "home turf", this restaurant has become Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment's highest volume performer. What makes this even more satisfying is that Louisville not only has more competition than Cincinnati, it has more national brand steakhouses.