Others, feeling flush from the strong national economy, are dining out more often at steak restaurants.

When she was 19, she met Robert Simpson, a chef at a steak restaurant.

"It's like going into a steak restaurant," she says.

The pendulum had swung too far, and as a result, a new, albeit smaller, market for steak restaurants, emerged.

Because of this, dry-aged beef is seldom available outside of steak restaurants and upscale butcher shops or groceries.

As befits a steak restaurant, Sparks is basically a red-wine cellar.

He skips out on going to his physical, so that he and Brian can go meet the guys at an all-you-can-eat steak restaurant.

Fashionable steak restaurants have popped up across the capital.

Morton's steak restaurant in Georgetown has been a magnet for years to Washington's leading political figures.

The two men continued with the operation of the root beer stand and converted the log house into a steak restaurant.