Prime Rib

Steakhouses: Harking back to the elegant Manhattan supper clubs of the 1940s, you will find tuxedoed waiters waiting to serve your every meal need. The meal begins with a choice of appetizers -- cold and hot dishes, soups and salads. Take your time looking over the entrée menu because there are so many delicious options to pick including steaks, seafood and other meat dishes like chicken...

Do as they do in "Mad Men" – "dress up and have a martini" – at this "classic" White House/World Banksteakhouse (with branches in Baltimore and Philadelphia) that's operating at the "top of its game", delivering "fantastic" "slabs of meat" and "masterful seafood"; from the "1940s supper-club vibe" to the "sublime" tuxedoed service, it's a "perfect evening out"; P.S. business-casual dress is...

The 36-year-old Prime Rib has plenty of competition in D.C., but it makes no difference. Beef lovers of a certain age still consider this The Place. Male beef lovers, anyway: The Prime Rib has a definite men's club feel about it, with brass-trimmed black-paneled walls, leopard-skin carpeting, and comfortable black-leather chairs and banquettes. Waiters are tuxedoed, and a pianist at the baby...

The ambience of The Prime Rib evokes that of an elegant supper club of the ’40s---gold-trimmed black walls, black-tie-clad waiters and a Lucite-topped grand piano that’s played during lunch and dinner. The name reveals the specialty: the best roast beef in town. You also can get that rib cut as a steak. If you choose not to eat red meat, the best alternatives are two regional seafood dishes:...

Black tie, white tie, skinny tie, fat tie. Distinguished supper club's "dress for dinner" mandate separates glamorous DC insiders from everyday K Street schmucks. Wear rhinestones without ridicule, satiate bloodlust on your plate. Double dirty martinis, anyone? Sashay across leopard print carpet, eavesdrop on others' conversation before it hits tomorrow's news. Black smoking chairs if smoking...

Downtown steakhouse is more a ritual than a restaurant; the atmosphere is posh, the staff pampers and the prime rib is still the primary…