We Ranked 10 Of The Best Steakhouses In Idaho And Here Is Who Made The Cut
Potatoes get all the publicity, which feels a little unfair to the cows.
Across Idaho, steakhouses are quietly making a very strong argument for ordering something bigger than your appetite.
Some have been around long enough to know exactly what regulars want.
Others lean into big views, old-school dining rooms, or the kind of portions that make the bread basket feel unnecessary.
Either way, nobody is coming here to nibble politely. A good steak dinner has a way of turning “I’m not that hungry” into famous last words.
Add a side, maybe two, and suddenly dessert becomes a negotiation. These ten spots have earned loyal followings for more than one reason. Just do yourself a favor and avoid wearing the tight jeans.
10. Boiada Brazilian Grill, Coeur d’Alene
Endless skewers of fire-roasted meat are a fairly new arrival in north Idaho, and Boiada Brazilian Grill made quite an entrance in December 2024. Based at 2380 N Old Mill Loop in the Riverstone area of Coeur d’Alene, it was founded by lifelong friends Hélio Vieira and Josiane Ballin.
Vieira brings nearly two decades of restaurant experience, while Ballin handles the project management side.
Rodízio service means gauchos walk the room carving beef, pork, chicken, and lamb straight onto your plate. Picanha, the sirloin cap, is the star, joined by garlic beef, bacon wrapped chicken, parmesan pork, leg of lamb, and caramelized grilled pineapple.
The Fresh Market Table covers the rest with Brazilian and American salads and sides such as garbanzo beans, pasta salad, roasted garlic, and Vaca Atolada, a beef and yucca stew. À la carte choices include salmon with passion fruit sauce.
Caipivinhos and a Boiada Mojito pair nicely with all that meat. Doors open Thursday through Sunday only, with Friday lunch, weekend brunch, and evening service, and children age six and younger currently eat free with the purchase of one full rodízio churrasco.
9. Jakers Bar & Grill, Pocatello
Warm scones with honey butter land on your table before you even order, and that alone explains a lot of the loyalty here.
Jakers Bar & Grill returned to Pocatello on April 20, 2017, opening at 2365 Via Caporatti Dr. The homecoming mattered because founder Jake Jones started his very first restaurant, called Jake’s, in Pocatello back in 1975.
Jones and partner Justin Philbrick operate Jakers locations across several states, with Luke Hadley serving as CEO as of 2024.
Steaks are hand cut from Double R Ranch beef, including the Signature Sirloin, ribeye, filet mignon, and a shareable Cowboy Cut Ribeye. Seafood spans fresh salmon, Idaho trout, seared peppered tuna, and coconut prawns.
Appetizer regulars order Tender Steak Bites and Mushrooms, loaded potato skins, or Dragon Tails, and the soup and salad bar is a meal by itself. Readers of the Idaho State Journal have voted it Best Steakhouse, Best Burger, and Friendliest Wait Staff.
Lunch runs weekdays from 11:30 AM, dinner follows, and happy hour starts at 3 PM. A banquet room at Jakers Bar & Grill seats 40.
8. Stockman’s Restaurant, Idaho Falls
Five generations of one family stand behind the steaks at this Snake River Landing favorite. The story began in 1947 when Great Grandpa Swain opened the first Stockman’s Cafe in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and the Idaho Falls location at 1175 Pier View Dr opened in May 2011 after an earlier restaurant in Rigby.
The restaurant remains rooted in the Swain family’s multigenerational restaurant history.
Beef is cut fresh, and current steak choices include sirloin, filet mignon, prime rib and ribeye. Filet mignon and the 14-ounce Idaho Falls’ Favorite Ribeye keep steak purists happy, while Black Angus burgers are ground from steak trim and pattied in house.
Seafood shows up as Atlantic salmon, lobster, king crab, and Cajun mahi-mahi. Starters include Snake River Nachos and oozy-fried cheese curds, and every entrée includes soup or salad plus a side.
Complimentary rolls with citrus butter hit the table first.
Desserts deserve a mention, especially the homemade cheesecakes and towering cakes. Big tables, a banquet room, and a cowboy theme that never gets corny make Stockman’s Restaurant work for groups.
Open Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday.
7. Indian Creek Steakhouse, Caldwell
You will smell this one before you see it. Steaks and seafood at Indian Creek Steakhouse cook over a roaring applewood fire in an open kitchen at 711 Main St in downtown Caldwell, inside a brick building dating to the early 1900s.
Jennifer and Dillon Wickel founded the restaurant in 2011, taking inspiration from Dillon’s uncle, who owns the Wolf Lodge Inn up north. Emily Williams is now noted as owner.
Beef includes American Wagyu from Snake River Farms, and the cuts get colorful names: The current menu includes several sirloin and ribeye options alongside other steak cuts, with selections and sizes changing over time.
There is also an 8-ounce top sirloin, a 10-ounce ribeye, a Prime Rib Dip sandwich, and Rocky Mountain Oysters for the brave.
Dinners come with a made-to-order salad, buckaroo beans, fry bread, and potatoes, and appetizers like bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers disappear quickly.
Spread across three buildings and roughly 20,000 square feet, the place hosts weekend live music and hides a reservation-only spot called The Tavern. Open seven days with happy hour until 6 PM, Indian Creek Steakhouse starts at 11:30 AM most days.
6. Teton House, Menan
Dining inside a 1910 bank building is a pretty unusual way to eat a tomahawk steak. The old Menan Bank now houses Teton House at 3563 E Menan-Lorenzo Hwy, sitting between Rexburg and Idaho Falls just off Highway 20.
Sandy and Mike King bought the restaurant in January 2023, with Mike working as executive chef, and they even added air conditioning to the historic space.
Steaks are the pride here, including locally sourced Certified Angus plus imported Australian and Japanese Wagyu, all cooked in a seed oil-free kitchen. Prime rib and filet mignon round out the lineup.
Brussels sprouts remain among the restaurant’s popular side options, alongside potatoes and other accompaniments. Lobster chowder, bacon-wrapped shrimp, caprese salad, and chorizo stuffed bacon wrapped jalapeños fill out the rest.
Stone walls, an old-fashioned bar, and vintage furniture give the room an English hunting lodge feel with an Idaho twist. Hours run 11 AM to 9 PM Monday through Thursday and 11 AM to 10 PM Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday.
Seating is limited, so call ahead for Teton House.
5. Turf Club, Twin Falls
A 1946 speakeasy started by ranchers has become one of southern Idaho’s most stylish places to eat steak. Found at 734 Falls Ave in Twin Falls, the Turf Club was founded by Tom Callen, O.A.
Rambo, Dale and Bob Wildman, and other local cattlemen. Robert and Mariann Griffith acquired the Turf Club in 2022 and reopened the renovated restaurant in early 2024.
Chef Ben Thorpe runs a dry-aged steak program stocked with Center Cut Filet Prime Beef Tenderloin, SRF Tomahawk, Prime Boneless Ribeye, and Lot 29 NY Strip, sourced partly from Snake River Farms and Lot 29 Premium Charolais Beef.
Beyond beef you will find Black Garlic Jumbo Shrimp Scampi, Lobster Mac, Steak Tartare, Tempura Artichoke & Mushrooms, and a house-ground Turf Smash Burger on the lounge menu.
Griff’s Speakeasy hides inside, pouring inventive beverages alongside Asian-inspired small plates, while the original lighted beverage glass sign still glows out front. Doors open at 4 PM Tuesday through Saturday with happy hour until 6 PM, and closed Sunday and Monday.
Reserve ahead at the Turf Club.
4. Lock Stock & Barrel, Boise
Ask a longtime Boise resident where to get prime rib and one name comes up fast. Lock Stock & Barrel opened in June 1977 at 1100 W Jefferson St, making it one of the Treasure Valley’s oldest steakhouses, and voters have called it Boise’s Best Steakhouse for ten straight years.
Every cut of meat is aged in house and butchered by the kitchen staff. Prime rib is the headliner, aged a minimum of 28 days, slow roasted, and offered in Short, Standard, Pound, and Grand cuts with creamy horseradish.
Hand-carved steaks include Filet Mignon, Dry Aged New York Au Poivre, and the Black & Bleu Rib Eye.
Seafood fans go for bacon-wrapped sea scallops or cedar plank salmon, and the all-you-can-eat salad bar remains a crowd favorite alongside Crab & Artichoke Dip.
Exposed beams, soft lighting, and a front bar keep things relaxed, with live music many weekends and banquet space for 65 guests. The bar opens at 4 PM daily, dinner ends between 9 and 10 PM, and reservations at Lock Stock & Barrel are wise.
3. Beverly’s, Coeur d’Alene
Few dining rooms in the Northwest can compete with a table on the seventh floor of The Coeur d’Alene Resort’s Lake Tower. Beverly’s takes its name from resort founder Duane Hagadone’s mother, Beverly, whose memory also inspired one of the restaurant’s best-known traditions.
Executive Chef Jim Barrett builds the menu around Northwest flavors. Expect Striploin Surf & Turf, a seasonal dry-aged ribeye with huckleberry demi-glace and roasted bone marrow, saffron-infused lobster bisque, seafood paella, and pan-seared king salmon.
The menu extends beyond steak and seafood with additional appetizers, salads and seasonal entrées.
Then there is the Orange Roll, a tribute to Beverly Hagadone that has been served more than 2.8 million times. Desserts lean local too, including huckleberry cheesecake.
The cellar is the region’s largest, holding over 10,000 bottles and 1,500 labels, and free cellar tours run daily at 3:30 PM. Dinner runs 4:30 PM to 9 PM Sunday through Thursday and 4 PM to 10 PM Friday and Saturday.
Dress is resort casual, and reservations for Beverly’s are strongly encouraged in summer. Adress: 115 S 2nd St, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814.
2. Pioneer Saloon, Ketchum
Pioneer Saloon has become one of Ketchum’s best-known longtime restaurants, combining aged steaks with a dining room full of local history.
Sitting at 320 Main Street in Ketchum, the building goes back to 1945, when it opened as a gambling casino called The Commercial Club before taking the Pioneer Saloon name around 1950.
Duffy and Sheila Witmer and their family have owned it since 1986, and in 2025 the James Beard Foundation named the Pioneer Saloon one of America’s Classics.
The menu has barely budged since the 1950s. Aged steaks, Ketchum Cut Prime Rib, top sirloin, meaty ribs, and Fresh Idaho Rainbow Trout share space with the legendary Jim Spud, a huge Idaho baked potato buried under teriyaki beef, cheddar, sour cream, butter, and onions.
Save room for Sheila’s Famous Mud Pie.
Walls covered in Western and Native American art, strong margaritas, and a no-reservations rule define the mood.
Doors to the dining room open at 4:30 PM seven days a week, and peak-season waits at Pioneer Saloon can stretch close to three hours.
1. Chandlers Prime Steaks & Fine Seafood, Boise
Chandlers traces its roots to Rex Chandler’s original Idaho restaurant concept from 1994, while the downtown Boise restaurant at Hotel 43 has operated since 2007.
Founder Rex Chandler still owns the restaurant with Mary Beth Chandler, and their reputation includes the Spectator Best of Award of Excellence held since 2013.
Thirteen hand-cut steaks anchor the menu, running from USDA Prime Northwest corn-fed beef up to certified A5 Japanese Wagyu, all aged at least 30 days. Seafood arrives fresh from Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest, and the Tower of Tuna has become a signature order.
Here is a tip worth remembering: order the classic chocolate soufflé early in your meal, because it needs time to bake. Truffled Pommes Frites make a smart side, and the list tops 700 selections.
Hidden inside Hotel 43, the lounge opens daily at 4 PM with dinner from 5 PM, closing at 10 PM Sunday through Thursday and 11 PM on weekends.
Reservations are strongly recommended, especially during busier dining periods when tables can fill quickly. Complimentary valet parking is also available through the Hotel 43 breezeway off 10th and Grove, making arrival a little easier.
