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27 steakhouses spots in San Diego, scored and ranked for 2026.

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Top 10 Steakhouses Spots

1
Born and Raised
Steakhouse / Classic · Little Italy
Consortium Holdings' proper classic-steakhouse throwback in Little Italy — red leather booths, tuxedoed waiters, tableside Caesar, bananas Foster. The San Diego steakhouse that made the classic format...
91
2
Mastro's Ocean Club — Del Mar
Steakhouse / Seafood · Del Mar
Mastro's Ocean Club's Del Mar Highlands location — an ocean-view dining room with a piano bar, the seafood tower and butter-cake desserts that are the brand's national signatures, and one of North Cou...
90
3
Freddy's Chophouse
Steakhouse · Downtown San Diego
Freddy's Chophouse is a small, adults-only steakhouse in the Gaslamp Quarter that keeps things intimate — limited seating, reservations recommended, no high chairs after 5pm. Steaks are the draw, with...
90
4
Cowboy Star
Steakhouse / Modern · East Village
East Village steakhouse with an in-house butcher shop attached — dry-aged program visible through the window, wagyu tomahawks carved tableside, and a cocktail bar that holds its own. The San Diego cho...
89
5
Stake Chophouse
Steakhouse / Modern American · Coronado
Coronado's modern chophouse — a Prime steak program, a rooftop patio above Orange Avenue, and a dining room that gave the island its serious special-occasion table outside the Hotel del. A Coronado mo...
88
6
Rare Society — Solana Beach
Steakhouse / Modern American · Solana Beach
Chef Brad Wise's Solana Beach chophouse — the original Rare Society, a modern steakhouse inside the Cedros Design District with a dry-aged program that made the Trust Restaurant Group a North County s...
88
7
Eddie V's La Jolla
Seafood / Steakhouse · La Jolla
The Eddie V's La Jolla outpost — upscale seafood-and-steakhouse chain with live jazz in the V Lounge every night, Chilean sea bass as the anchor order, and one of La Jolla's better-booked special-occa...
87
8
Donovan's Prime Seafood Grill
Seafood / Steakhouse · Gaslamp
Donovan's Gaslamp sister — a surf-and-turf version of the Donovan's Steakhouse brand, a block from Petco Park, with a reservation book that fills for every Padres home stand. The Gaslamp Donovan's cha...
87
9
West Steak & Seafood
Steakhouse / Seafood · Carlsbad
Carlsbad's West Steak & Seafood — a white-tablecloth steakhouse-and-seafood dining room, a dry-aged beef program, a wine cellar that reads as Carlsbad's deepest, and a North County special-occasio...
87
10
Island Prime & C Level
Steakhouse / American / Seafood · Harbor Island
Cohn Restaurant Group's Harbor Island double — Island Prime upstairs for the chophouse treatment, C Level downstairs for the open patio on the water. The same downtown-skyline view, two formats. An SD...
86

All 27 Steakhouses Spots in San Diego

333 Pacific
American / Seafood / Steakhouse · Oceanside
86
Harry's Bar & American Grill — Rancho Santa Fe
American / Steakhouse · Rancho Santa Fe
86
Morton's The Steakhouse
Steakhouse · Downtown San Diego
86
Shorebird
Steak & Seafood · Seaport Village
86
Puerto La Boca
Argentinian / Steakhouse · Little Italy
85
Turf Supper Club
American / Steakhouse · Golden Hill
85
Lou & Mickey's
American / Steakhouse / Seafood · Gaslamp
85
Ranch 45
Steakhouse / Butcher · Solana Beach
85
Osetra Seafood & Steakhouse
Seafood / Steakhouse · Gaslamp
84
The Red Fox Room
American / Steakhouse / Bar · North Park
84
Manhattan of La Jolla
Italian / Steakhouse · La Jolla
84
The Wise Ox
Steakhouse · North Park
84
Saska's Steakhouse & Sushi
Steakhouse / Sushi · Mission Beach
83
Bully's East
American / Steakhouse · Mission Valley
83
The Butcher Shop Steakhouse
American / Steakhouse · Kearny Mesa
83
Scotch & Sirloin
American / Steakhouse · Kearny Mesa
83
High Dive Bar & Grill
Dive Bar · Bay Park
72
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