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Scotch 80 Prime

A marquee-grade dry-aged steak off the main corridor.

Closed now $$$$ Upscale DiningDate NightRomantic Spot
7.3/10
№ 29 on the List Issue № 140 · 9 wks · Scored by Hal Brennan Full List →
№ 01 · The Brief

Dry-Aged Beef, Deep Room, Off-Strip Weight

Scotch 80 Prime operates at the register where a Las Vegas steakhouse is expected to earn its price point, and by most accounts it does. The dry-aged program is the anchor. Dry-aging concentrates beef flavor in ways wet-aged cuts do not, and a room that commits to it is making a statement about patience and process. The steaks here read as the main event, the reason the table was booked.

Seafood runs alongside as a credible secondary program, not an afterthought, which keeps the room useful for groups where the full-blooded carnivore and the fish-at-a-steakhouse contingent both need to land somewhere satisfying. The steakhouse sides hold their own. A steakhouse that treats its sides as serious work is one that understands the full plate, and the sides here draw their own attention. French onion soup has come up as a standout opening move, which signals a kitchen running a full-service program rather than coasting on the beef alone.

The bar is a destination in its own right. Regulars return for the bar program specifically, and the front-of-house attentiveness that draws them back is the kind that comes from long tenure and genuine craft. Service throughout reads as polished and calibrated to the occasion. The room works for occasions that call for a marquee dinner: family milestones, date nights where the setting needs to match the stakes, business meals where the bill is an afterthought.

The price is high-end without apology. Vegas runs plenty of rooms that make similar promises; Scotch 80 Prime is one where the dry-aged program gives the kitchen something specific to stand behind.

№ 02 · What to Order

The order, from the record

№ 03 · Insider Tip
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The bar is worth building a visit around even outside a full dinner booking; the French onion soup is a legitimate opening course and not a throwaway on a menu that otherwise leads with beef.

Hal Brennan · Top of Las Vegas
№ 04 · The Verdict

What earns the 7.3

01
Dry-aged program

The commitment to dry-aging sets the kitchen's standard and gives the room a clear identity in a city with no shortage of steakhouses.

02
Bar worth returning to

The bar operates as a standalone draw, with front-of-house craft that keeps regulars coming back on its own terms.

03
Full-plate kitchen

Seafood and sides run at the same level of seriousness as the beef, which makes the room work for mixed tables and not just the single-minded steak order.

The record

Insider Score history

On the List 9 wks Current № 29
How we score

The Insider Score is our own 10-point editorial rating, set by the writer who covers the room. It is never an average of other sites’ stars, and it is never for sale. It weighs three things:

01Track record

How highly a kitchen rates, across how many diners, over how long.

02Consistency

Whether recent diners still agree with the long-term verdict.

03Distinction

What the kitchen does that its category does not.

Scotch 80 Prime earns a 7.3, great on our scale for Steakhouses in Las Vegas.
Hal Brennan
Hal Brennan
Editor at Large

Hal covers the rooms that earn their reputation the hard way: the long-running kitchens, the specialists, the places Las Vegas quietly agrees on. His reviews start with the record and end with a reason to go.

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