If you ever get a call from a friend who’s in Philly for one night and needs your top recommendation for a steakhouse, send them to Barclay Prime. It still feels trendy, even though it’s a long-running Philly staple, and the steak here is some of the best you’ll have in your life (especially the A5 wagyu filets). There’s also a $140 cheesesteak on the menu that’s dripping with truffle cheese and foie gras and comes with a half-bottle of champagne.

With golden chandeliers, long curved leather booths, and retro lamps on each table, Butcher & Singer feels like a clubhouse straight out of The Great Gatsby. Before the bone-in filets and seafood towers, this used to be a bank, and it still feels like you could walk into Butcher & Singer and ask for $100 in pennies without anyone batting an eye. The servers wear tuxedos and use phrases like “excite your palate” to describe the tuna tartare and king salmon.

Alpen Rose is an intimate, 15-table wood-paneled room that looks like the inside of a treasure chest or the personal library of a retired Harvard professor, and it’s full of expensive-looking paintings in elaborate frames. It’s a place where you can sit at leather booths and order a tomahawk ribeye, raw bar items, mac and cheese with aged cheddar, and a tender prime rib roast that’s just the right size for two people.

Sometimes you just want to pretend to do important business and exchange business cards with people like you’re Patrick Bateman in American Psycho—except maybe without the whole intense face mask and serial killer situation. When that’s the case, go to Del Frisco’s. It’s in the old Packard building, which is so big it’s basically like having a meal inside of 30th Street Station, and the crowd here is generally lots of people in suits one-upping each other over a few porterhouses.

Most steakhouses are somewhat intimidating. They’re overly fancy, they have high ceilings and lots of dark wood, and you wouldn’t want to spend a first date connecting with someone while you try to make sure your posture is at exactly 90 degrees. Malbec is the opposite. This small Argentinian spot in Society Hill looks more like a French bistro than a steakhouse, and it’s more affordable than most of the other places on this list.

Saloon is already one of our favorite Italian restaurants in the city, but it also has a list of steaks that are just as good as the larger steakhouses. The menu has things like clams casino and a petit filet served with mashed potatoes, but we also love the Italian specialties. And it has floor-to-ceiling dark wood walls and stained glass windows, which makes it feel like you’re in the rectory of a church that happens to have a lot of extra communion wine and really good food.

At Rittenhouse Grill, you'll find a jazz pianist serenading you while you dive into things like roast prime rib, oysters, and juicy sea bass filets topped with a miso glaze. On most nights, expect a dimly-lit atmosphere in a space full of leopard print carpet, cushy black leather, and a crowd that ranges from people celebrating their 50th anniversary to a group of friends sipping on merlot and arguing over if Jack could have fit on the door in Titanic.