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\n The restaurant opens this Friday inside One Fifth.
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When Golden Steer<\/a>, the august Las Vegas steakhouse, opens its doors at One Fifth Avenue this Friday, it will represent the biggest gamble in the history of the 68-year-old restaurant. In Las Vegas, Golden Steer is an institution. Most booths are named for the famous souls who sat there. It\u2019s where Frank Sinatra (booth No. 22), Dean Martin (No. 21), Sammy Davis Jr. (No. 20), and the rest of the Rat Pack relaxed. It\u2019s where Elvis Presley rested his swiveling hips (booth No. 26). Later it was, famously, a mob hangout where Chicago mafioso Tony \u201cthe Ant\u201d Spilotro huddled over martinis with his lawyer (and future Vegas mayor) Oscar Goodman (booth No. 11). But new steakhouses aren\u2019t exactly rare arrivals in New York. Golden Steer has been built to create its own sense of history.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t much that\u2019s subtle about Golden Steer; neither the steakhouse genre nor Vegas are known for their understatement. It is glitzy with a slightly kitsch Old West theme. Among the city\u2019s thousands of other restaurants, that already makes it unique, even to diners who don\u2019t know that the Vegas original opened in 1958. Today, Golden Steer is run by Amanda Signorelli (the daughter of Las Vegas developer Dr. Michael Signorelli) and her husband, entrepreneur Nick McMillan.<\/p>\n Walking into the dining room, diners pass a western scene wrought in scarlet-and-ruby-stained glass, a pair of silver spurs from the 1800s mounted in an alcove and a larger-than-life Doc Holliday slot machine. The main dining room is accessed through a long narrow room called \u201cthe Strip,\u201d one of the many homages to Las Vegas. Above the booths along the walls of the Strip, mounted on striped wooden paneling, are paintings of steeds galloping, cowboys mid-whoop, lasso cocked.<\/p>\n \n The menu leans into steakhouse classicism. In the dining room, frontier chic gives way to urbane glitz. The room is arch steakhouse: red-leather booths, scarlet napkins fan-folded on white tablecloths, velvet chairs, a black-and-red carpet designed to match historical photos of the original restaurant. But Sinatra\u2019s famous proto-selfie<\/a> is hanging on one wall and a portrait of William Burroughs by Robert Mapplethorpe hangs on another. Mapplethorpe, of course, was a frequent guest at this address\u2019s first famous restaurant, One Fifth, where the photographer and Patti Smith were regulars and Keith McNally got his start<\/a>. (Mapplethorpe also shot the cover of Smith\u2019s Horses on the 27th floor of the building, in the apartment of the art collector Sam Wagstaff.) Beyond a set of stained-glass doors are the two private dining rooms. The Showgirl Room, features an original sequined headdress from the Nevada State Museum. The other, the Mob Room, displays a vintage flamingo figurine plus framed photographs of Spilotro, Goodman, Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal, and his wife. When asked how the restaurant can avoid romanticizing violent crimes (Spilotro is alleged to have been involved in more than 20 murders), McMillan pauses for a second. \u201cThat\u2019s an excellent question,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Signorelli knows that it\u2019s a lot. \u201cWe talk often about how the brand almost doesn\u2019t quite fit,\u201d Signorelli explains, \u201cbecause you\u2019ve got cowboys, you\u2019ve got mobsters, and you\u2019ve got entertainers and you\u2019ve got these people. Golden Steer has just been everybody else\u2019s story and we\u2019ve let it absorb that.\u201d There are archaeological layers of Hollywood, pre-\u201cVegas\u201d Vegas and Hollywood-in-Vegas. There are robbers and barons, actors and cowboys and singers. Thanks to the original restaurant\u2019s role in Casino (both Nicholas Pileggi\u2019s true-crime best seller and the Scorsese movie it inspired), there\u2019s a rub of Hollywood glamour, as well. The place is also set in the nebulous past: \u201cWe wanted this to feel like it was always here,\u201d explains McMillan. The couple are both originalists and fabulists, so dedicated to creating a sense of \u201cthe past\u201d that they insisted on mounted speakers since they wouldn\u2019t have been built into the design in the 1970s.<\/p>\n The menu from executive chef Brendan Scott is both straightforward and decadent. Some offerings are Golden Steer classics, like a 16-inch section of marrow bone, bloody bull-oyster shooters with homemade veal au jus, a table-side Caesar, a 24-ounce bone-in wet-aged rib eye, and a 12-ounce filet described, on the menu, as \u201cthe aristocrat of tenderness.\u201d There are a few concessions to New York, as well. \u201cThere\u2019s where the chef came up with steer sausage with lentils on the side, which is just fun,\u201d says McMillan.<\/p>\n The reference points are varied, but they point back toward the original\u2019s nearly 70 years of history. In New York, that history will need to be built. It took nearly 20 years for the first booths to be named at the original Golden Steer. As of now, there are no named booths at One Fifth, but Signorelli is confident that will change. \u201cHopefully there will be,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s absolutely the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Another look at the new dining room. This post has been updated to correct Dr. Michael Signorelli\u2019s name.<\/p>\n EAT LIKE THE EXPERTS.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Grub Street newsletter.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e262538c2e0d0a368e1fbd6fb9813a1db3-PRIME-RIB-OF-BEEF-DIAMOND-CUT-GOLDEN-STE.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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