A beef battle: Take your pick of the best steak spot around Charlotte
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- CharlotteFive launches 2025 Readers’ Choice poll for best local steakhouse.
- Voting excludes chains with 25+ locations and previous Readers’ Choice winners.
- Five-round public vote runs from June 26 through July 10 to crown top steak spot.
Charlotte’s food scene is full of prime steak spots, but which is the best of the best?
As part of our annual Readers’ Choice awards, we’re looking to crown the Queen City’s ultimate steak spot.
Of course, we can all agree on the hype around fan-favorite chain steakhouses like Outback, The Capital Grille, STK and others. So we’ve excluded restaurants that have more than 25 locations worldwide, as well as past CharlotteFive Readers’ Choice winners, to spotlight smaller, local spots.
Now, it’s time to put it to a vote.
Here are the details:
- Round 5 is currently live until noon Monday, July 14.
Top 2
- Epic Chophouse
- Chop House 101
Top 4
Chop House 101
Epic Chophouse
The Palm Restaurant
Oak Steakhouse
Top 8
- Chop House 101
- Epic Chophouse
- Lakehouse Wine Bar & Grill
- Webb Custom Kitchen
- The Palm Restaurant
- Oak Steakhouse
- Dean’s Italian Steakhouse
- Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse
Top 17
- Epic Chophouse
- Chop House 101
Peninsula Prime Seafood & Steakhouse
The Palm Restaurant
Beef n’ Bottle Steakhouse
Lakehouse Wine Bar & Grill
Steak 48
16 Prime
Oak Steakhouse
Dean’s Italian Steakhouse
- Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse
Dressler’s
131 Main
The Cellar at Duckworth’s, Supperland, Webb Custom Kitchen (tie)
The Porter’s House
16 Prime
Location: 7925 Natalie Commons Dr, Denver, NC 28037
131 Main
Location: 17830 Statesville Rd, Cornelius, NC 28031
Location: 5970 Fairview Rd #100, Charlotte, NC 28210
Location: 9886 Rea Rd, Charlotte, NC 28277
Beef ‘N Bottle Steakhouse
Location: 4538 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28209
Bentley’s Restaurant
Location: 4620 Piedmont Row Dr #110, Charlotte, NC 28210
BrickTop’s
Location: 6401 Carnegie Blvd #1B, Charlotte, NC 28211
The Cellar at Duckworth’s
Location: 330 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
Chima Steakhouse
Location: 139 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
Chop House 101
Location: 101 West Ave, Kannapolis, NC 28081
Customshop
Location: 1601 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Dean’s Italian Steakhouse
Location: 128 E Brooklyn Vlg Ave, Charlotte, NC 28202
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse
Location: 4725 Piedmont Row Dr Suite 170, Charlotte, NC 28210
Dressler’s
Location: 1100 Metropolitan Ave #125, Charlotte, NC 28204
Drift on Lake Wylie
Location: 315-M Lanyard Ln, Belmont, NC 28012
Epic Chophouse
Location: 104 S Main St, Mooresville, NC 28115
Location: 1365 Broadcloth St #101, Fort Mill, SC 29715
Estampa Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse
Location: 401 E M.L.K. Jr Blvd #306, Charlotte, NC 28202
Hestia Rooftop
Location: 14819 Ballantyne Village Way Charlotte, NC 28277
L’Ostrica
Location: 4701 Park Rd D, Charlotte, NC 28209
Lakehouse Wine Bar & Grill
Location: 18665 Harborside Dr, Cornelius, NC 28031
Leluia Hall
Location: 1829 Cleveland Ave, Charlotte, NC 28203
Link & Pin
Location: 8128 Providence Rd #1200, Charlotte, NC 28277
Location: 9723 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
Oak Steakhouse
Location: 4777 Sharon Road, Suite 125, Charlotte, NC 28210
The Palm Restaurant
Location: 6705-B, Phillips Pl Ct, Charlotte, NC 28210
Peninsula Prime Seafood & Steakhouse
Location: 19918 N Cove Rd, Cornelius, NC 28031
The Porter’s House
Location: 7417 Waverly Walk Ave, Charlotte, NC 28277
Primo Prime
Location: 116 Middleton Dr, Charlotte, NC 28207
Red Rocks Cafe
Location: 4223 Providence Rd #8, Charlotte, NC 28211
Location: 8712 Lindholm Dr, Huntersville, NC 28078
Rios Steakhouse
Location: 1605 Galleria Blvd #100, Charlotte, NC 28270
Steak 48
Location: 4425 Sharon Rd, Charlotte, NC 28211
Sullivan’s Steakhouse
Location: 1928 South Blvd #200, Charlotte, NC 28203
Supperland
Location: 1212 The Plaza, Charlotte, NC 28205
Webb Custom Kitchen
Location: 182 S South St, Gastonia, NC 28052
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