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Popular Steakhouse Menu Items That Desperately Need A Refresh By Victoria Thomas Oct. 28, 2025 4:40 pm EST

With red leatherette booths, campy hunting-themed decor, and Rat Pack cocktails, the always-enduring American steakhouse is a culinary time capsule, frozen in place with midcentury culinary baggage. Many menus still echo Depression-era hardships and wartime food rationing, continuing a dubious tradition of cheap, ultra-processed ingredients used during the 1930s and extended into the convenience era of the 1960s.

Many steakhouses still serve safe, bland side dish recipes that are eight decades old, and wonder why they're losing younger clientele, families with young kids, and more adventurous older diners. A few of these standard favorites might

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