Old school dining rooms have a particular atmosphere that modern restaurants spend fortunes trying to recreate. These Iowa steakhouses never had to try.
Dark wood paneling, worn leather booths, and lighting that makes everything on the plate look exactly as good as it tastes. The ribeyes here are the kind that arrive already delivering on every expectation built up during the drive over.
Iowa sits in the middle of some of the finest beef producing land in the country. These steakhouses have been making the most of that geography for generations…