Valle's Steak House. Photo credit: Pat Boni - http://saxtonsign.com/, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24950959The trend today is the upscale steak house, but back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the family-friendly steak house reigned in our Boston area neighborhoods.
Most were chains, but were so integrated with the feel of our towns and cities that people didn't put on their snob hats and put down the corporate presence. Heck, we just wanted a good steak!
Some of those steak houses were:
Newbury Steak House, Boston, Mass.
Rib Room, Hotel Sonesta, Cambridge, Mass.
Valle's Steak House in Chestnut Hill and Saugus, Mass.
JBs Steak House, Newton, Mass.
Colorado Public Library, Brookline, Mass.
Buddy's Sirloin Pit, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Hilltop Steak House, Saugus, Mass.
Bonanza Steak House, Burlington, Mass.
Bonanza Steak House, Burlington, Mass.
Vincent's Steak House, West Springfield, Mass.
Green Ridge Steak House, Nashua, N.H. (right next to the landmark Green Ridge Turkey Farm, this expansion didn't last too long at all!)
York Steak House, various mall locations
By the way, nice to see locally-owned steak houses like Frank's Steak House in Cambridge, Jimmy's Steer House in Arlington and the Wildwood Steakhouse in Marlboro still thriving!
Green Ridge Steak House, Nashua, N.H. (right next to the landmark Green Ridge Turkey Farm, this expansion didn't last too long at all!)
York Steak House, various mall locations
By the way, nice to see locally-owned steak houses like Frank's Steak House in Cambridge, Jimmy's Steer House in Arlington and the Wildwood Steakhouse in Marlboro still thriving!
