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Best Steaks in the Desert

Kaiser and Lee Morcus, founders of the Kaiser Family of Restaurants, launched their signature fine dining concepts with The Chop House. Two locations in Palm Springs and Palm Desert will soon be joined by a third at Miles Crossing in Indian Wells.

The Chop Houses are among the elite America’s Finest Prime Time Top 10 Steakhouses and DiRoNA. The Chop Houses in Palm Springs and Palm Desert are sanctuaries for serious steak aficionados who know “The meat is sweeter on the bone.” The Morcus family boasts three generations of cattle farmers and certified butchers.

The array of USDA Prime aged steaks and chops include Kansas City bone-in New York, bone-in filet mignon, cowboy rib and Porterhouse steaks, as well as double pork chops and rack of lamb. In season, The Chop House also features authentic Japanese bred and raised Wagyu beef, the highest quality beef in the world.

All meats, aged and butchered in-house, are grilled at lower temperatures longer, allowing juices, tenderness, and flavors to fully develop. The Morcus standards for preparing fresh seafood are just as stringent.

Start with assorted appetizers and salads including Seared Jumbo Sea Scallops, Carpaccio, or Tartare of Tuna or Beef, French Onion Soup Gratinée or The Wedge — chilled iceberg lettuce with Citrus Roquefort Dressing. Vegetable and side accompaniments are designed to share. Top-shelf martinis are poured tableside from frosted shakers. Decadent desserts are prepared in-house while a selection of dessert wines, ports, cognacs, and Armagnac bring the dining experience to an elegant close.

The Chop House restaurants are beautifully designed and elegantly crafted. Rich wood paneling, rock walls and rolling columns of hand-fired bricks set the atmosphere in Palm Springs where culturally significant artifacts are displayed throughout intimate rooms, dramatic two-story atrium and open-air patio on Palm Canyon. A spectacular exhibition wine cellar inventories more than 3,500 wines. Design features at Palm Desert combine cherry wood paneling, warm, curved booth seating and tasteful modern art throughout.

“A prime cut above in culinary excellence, personalized service, and relaxed sophistication with the best steaks in the desert.”

Text by Pamela Bieri