Butcher & Singer
1500 Walnut St.
Philadelphia , PA 19102
215-732-4444
Neighborhood: Center City
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Restaurant Week dinner menu
Parking: Dinner valet parking costs $17.
Handicap access: Wheelchair accessible.
Restaurant Week dinner menu
Parking: Dinner valet parking costs $17.
Handicap access: Wheelchair accessible.
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This Starr steak house, with stellar beefy chops and a throwback theme, is a perfect identity for the old brokerage.
Craig LaBan: Out with the soaring fish sculpture of Striped Bass. In with the gleaming golden bull and the retro chophouse look of Butcher & Singer. The steak house has made its case to my lipid-lovin' inner carnivore with some stellar chops and a throwback theme that is a perfect new identity for this classic space.
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Cuisine type: Steak House
Meals Served:
Lunch - Mon. thru Fri.
Dinner - Mon. thru Sat.
Style:
A gilded bull has replaced the big fish in Stephen Starr's transformation of Striped Bass into a palace for luxury steaks with retro shtick. It actually works, from the tufted half-moon booths and plaid carpet to the superb prime meats and throwbacks like lobster thermidor and baked Alaska. The management can be intrusively chatty, but the hard sell isn't necessary to see that this grand space is now among the city's elite chophouses.
Specialties:
Raw bar; fried oysters; crab cake; shrimp and crab Louis; Butcher salad; French onion soup; lobster bisque (lunch); porterhouse (for one or two); Delmonico strip; lobster thermidor; halibut; Butcher burger (lunch); stuffed hash browns; creamed spinach; mushrooms and onions; baked Alaska; apple crumble; cheesecake.
Alcohol:
The substantial 200-plus-bottle list is tilted toward cabs and Bordeaux-style blends, with good international variety, but also the usual hefty triple markups. There are some decent by-the-glass choices (Trefethen Double T; Bridlewood syrah; Codax albarino), and a bar that's skilled with cocktail classics, from great gimlets and sidecars to "perfect" manhattans.
Weekend noise:
The big room is a noisy 89 decibels, but comfortable table spacing makes conversation possible.
Hours: Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Dinner 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Prices:
$$$
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