Meaning & use
steakhouse
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UK/ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs/
US/ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs/
Meaning
nouncountable
A restaurant whose main dishes are grilled or fried steaks, usually served with side dishes.
Grammar: You can count them: a steakhouse, two steakhouses.
Patterns
- eat at a steakhouse
- a steakhouse in somewhere
We booked a table at the steakhouse for my dad's birthday.
The new steakhouse downtown serves very thick cuts of beef.
Most steakhouses also offer a fish option.
Word forms
| plural | steakhouses |
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Common combinations
- upscale steakhouse
- They had dinner at an upscale steakhouse.
- book a steakhouse
- Let's book a steakhouse for the team dinner.
- steakhouse menu
- The steakhouse menu has six cuts of beef.
- local steakhouse
- Our local steakhouse is busy on Friday nights.
Synonyms and how they differ
- grill
- A grill can serve many grilled foods, while a steakhouse focuses mainly on steak.
- chophouse
- Chophouse is older and also includes lamb and pork chops, whereas steakhouse points to beef.
- restaurant
- Restaurant is the general word for any place serving meals, not only steak.
Word family
Commonly confused: steakhouse or stakehouse?
steakhouse vs stakehouse
Stake is a post or a share; steak is meat, so only steakhouse names a restaurant.
Practice
For our anniversary we went to a ___ and ordered a ribeye with fries.
Choose one answer.
A steakhouse specializes in steak, which matches ordering a ribeye. A bakery and a tea room do not.
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