Memphis Steak Houses

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar offers a dining room with white tablecloths, cherry-wood paneled walls and a list of about 100 glasses of wine. The menu is highlighted by corn-fed cuts of prime beef, including a New York strip steak and a bone-in ribeye. The restaurant offers a sliced filet mignon burger served with sauteed mushrooms and Bearnaise sauce. For dessert, chocolate lava cake with a molten chocolate center is served with vanilla ice cream and chopped pistachios. The bar has a "5 for $6 'til 7" special each night: Five cocktails, five wines by the glass and five appetizers are $6 apiece. Fleming's is open seven days a week.

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
6245 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, Tennessee 38119
(901) 761-6200
flemingssteakhouse.com

An in-house butcher cuts each piece of beef after it has aged four weeks at the Butcher Shop Steakhouse. Guests in the casual dining room enjoy a Gorgonzola and portabella mushroom-stuffed fillet and the 30-ounce porterhouse. Other entrees include a fresh Atlantic salmon and sauteed Cajun shrimp. A homemade cheesecake and a homemade strawberry cake are for featured for dessert. The restaurant has an extensive wine list and caters to large parties. It's open seven days.

Butcher Shop Steakhouse
101 South Front St.
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
(901) 521-0856
thebutchershop.com

The house special at Folk's Folly is a 16-ounce prime beef French quarter rib-eye that is trimmed and doused in a lobster, crawfish and shrimp étoufée. The menu also features a 14-ounce veal chop, a 28-ounce porterhouse, fresh seafood and salads. The wine list features more than 250 wines, and the restaurant received an Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator magazine in 1999. The restaurant is open seven days, and its The Cellar lounge has live music Monday through Saturday.

Folk's Folly
551 S. Mendenhall Road
Memphis, Tennessee 38117
(901) 762-8200
folksfolly.com