"Sure, Ruth’s Chris is now a 100-plus unit chain of high-end steakhouses run by a hospitality group based in Florida. Still, New Orleans is its birthplace, started in 1965 when resident Ruth Fertel mortgaged her home to buy a 60-seat restaurant in New Orleans named Chris Steak House. When she relocated the chophouse, she renamed the restaurant Ruth’s Chris Steak House and ran it herself, doing everything from cutting meat to greeting politicos and celebrities. Here, Ruth’s Chris still makes the steaks the way she insisted, sizzling and perfect." - Eater Staff, Clair Lorell
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
