A bone-in striploin steak cut traditionally with the side bone left on. The city's stockyards-era contribution to American steak culture, drier and beefier than its New York cousin.
The Kansas City strip steak was born at the Golden Ox steakhouse in the West Bottoms in 1949, when the Live Stock Exchange held the second-largest cattle market in the country. The cut keeps the bone for flavour but trims more closely than the porterhouse. Plaza III and other Plaza steakhouses standardised the cut through the 1960s; the name persists today on every metro steakhouse menu.
4 editor picks for Kansas City strip steak in Kansas City, ranked by editorial score. All Kansas City signature dishes · Kansas City strip steak across every city.
Stroud's Oak Ridge Manor ★ 4.6
north-kansas-city · 5410 NE Oak Ridge Rd, Kansas City, MO 64119
Stroud's Oak Ridge Manor is the Kansas City pan-fried chicken anchor, set inside a restored 1840s log-cabin homestead that became the second Stroud's in 1983 after the original 85th and Troost room opened in 1933.
The Capital Grille ★ 4.4
plaza · 4760 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64112
The Capital Grille on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza dry-ages its beef in-house for 18 to 24 days and hand-cuts to order, with a 3,500-bottle wine cellar.
Anton's Taproom ★ 4.4
crossroads · 1610 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64108
Anton's Taproom in the Kansas City Crossroads is a butcher shop plus steakhouse with grass-fed beef from regional farms and a long natural-wine list.
Golden Ox ★ 4.2
west-bottoms · 1600 Genessee Street, Kansas City, MO 64102
Golden Ox in Kansas City's West Bottoms opened in 1949 inside the Live Stock Exchange as the birthplace of the KC strip steak, reopened in 2018.