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Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Nashville Named One Of America's 25 Most Romantic Restaurants   FSR Magazine and TripAdvisor taps Jeff Ruby's Nashville gem as one of their Valentine's Day must-visit romantic eateries.

Though the decor and menus vary from coast to coast, from Western-style steakhouses to old-school Midwest supper clubs to big-city temples of haute beef, these are the best places to sate your carnivore cravings and enjoy a side of local flair. **** Restaurateur Jeff Ruby once said, "People don't come here because they're hungry. They can go to the refrigerator for that. Our guests come here to celebrate life." That mantra has pervaded Ruby's namesake steakhouse, which counts locations in both Columbus and Cincinnati (as well as three in Kentucky and Tennessee), with a high-end experience that combines prime steaks, seafood and sushi, live nightly entertainment and impeccable service. The art deco design mirrors that refined sensibility, with a 30-foot-long original Rothschild & Sons hand-carved bar, Swarovski crystal chandeliers and an eclectic mix of antiques from Ruby's per...

By Andy Brownfield  – Reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier  Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby was among three people, and only two living, included in the first class of the Ohio Restaurant Hall of Fame. On Jan. 13, Ruby was inducted into the Ohio Restaurant Association's Hall of Fame along with Cameron Mitchell Restaurants CEO Cameron Mitchell, and, posthumously, Billy Ingram, founder of White Castle. Ruby got started in the Cincinnati restaurant scene with the Precinct in 1981 and now owns Jeff Ruby's Steakhouses in Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Columbus and Lexington as well as Carlo & Johnny in Montgomery.  "I told the dishwashers in Columbus that congratulated me this: 'Nobody inducted in the Hall of Fame in any sport did it without the help of his teammates, coaches, trainers, etc.,...

The holidays are here and Nashville is a city known for its festive spirit and many holiday events. In the midst of planning season, it can sometimes be difficult to determine the right spot for your holiday soiree. Whether you’re planning the office ugly sweater party or a black-tie New Year’s Eve gala, Music City is sure to make your event sing. This month we offer a round-up of great locations for your next event. For most planners, budget is the first element of planning that needs to be confirmed.  Once those details are set, finding the perfect location is the next step. The beauty of Music City is the diversity of locations that will fit any budget or style. Taking the annual holiday festivities out of the office and planning your event at a unique location is a great way to make wonderful memories. Here are some of our favorites around town. RESTAURANTS Rest...

From the affordable to the splurge-worthy, here are the new eateries helping push the city’s food scene forward So many new restaurants, so little time. That pretty much describes another year of dining out in Columbus. In a booming culinary hotspot like our city, it’s difficult to comprehensively explore every buzzworthy eatery that premieres during a 12-month period — even when you’re getting paid to do it. Well, boo-hoo, right? Limp appeal for sympathy aside, my policy of waiting a month for new restaurants to get their act together before I visit them — and I visit multiple times — can make my job tricky. Especially when a wave of interesting places opens just as the insane holiday season starts. So, it’s with a dash of hubris that I present a year-in-review list of notable new eateries that includes a few restaurants I haven’t even w...

Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment, the restaurant group created by the eponymous steakhouse proprietor, has created its first C-suite, hiring new executives to help fuel the company's growth. Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment (JRCE) has hired Tim Taggart and Ryan Coslett into the newly created positions of chief financial officer and chief people officer, respectively.  It's a big move for the Ruby organization. President Britney Ruby Miller, Jeff Ruby's daughter, previously told me the restaurant group would manage each of its locations independently. That changed in about 2012 when Ruby began hiring and promoting a number of directors, including his daughter as director of guest services and development and Bawe Sinholster as director of training. Things evolved as the company continued to expand geographically and open more restaurants.  "...

Polly Campbell, Cincinnati Enquirer | Published 4:13 p.m. ET Nov. 28, 2018 Bourbon still maintains its reputation as a man's drink. And steakhouses as a man's restaurant. Those old stereotypes are hard to maintain in Cincinnati, where Molly Wellmann is our best-known bourbon expert, and Britney Ruby-Smith is President of the top steakhouses in the city.  The two got together, along with bartenders from Ruby's and a few other in the hospitality industry and went to Loretto, Kentucky, recently to create their own private label Maker's Mark.  Maker's Mark is unusual in that it rotates its barrels in the rickhouse, so that each one tastes similar, and they can bottle a consistent product. But for their premium label Cask 46, they vary flavors by adding different oak staves to barrels for its last month or so of aging. They use both French and American oak, wi...

American steakhouses are the last bastion of unabashed self-indulgence. Traditional chophouses, complete with white tablecloths and bow-tied waiters, can be identified easily by their menus, relics of gluttonous days gone past. There are gleaming towers of chilled crustaceans, slabs of red meat—black on the outside and blue on the inside—and copious sides of potatoes and vegetables, prepared the way god intended: puréed with butter and cream. The portions are big, yet no one is going to judge you for cleaning your plate, ordering an elaborate, blow-torched dessert, or polishing off a bottle of scotch with your meal. While plenty of these nostalgic establishments still exist and thrive around the country, the American steakhouse landscape is changing. Now steakhouses are serving more exquisite cuts and rare breeds and widely utilizing dry-aging, a process tha...

If you're up in Columbus and looking for a place to eat, you could go with some fried chicken from Eagle or tacos from Bakersfield. Or if you're splurging, have steak at Jeff Ruby steakhouse. Unless you want some sushi at Fusian. Wait, that's Cincinnati, not Columbus.  Actually, it's both. All those Cincinnati restaurants also have locations in Columbus. Some of them are in Indianapolis, too, and Louisville and Dayton. Local restaurants that have found success here are now stretching out into nearby cities.  But it's not a one-way trade. Here in Cincinnati, you can eat at Condado Tacos or Harvest Pizzeria or North Star (from Columbus), LouVino (from Louisville), Bru Burger (Indianapolis) Aladdin's (Cleveland), Goodfellas (Lexington), just to name a few of the restaurants from regional cities with locations here.  These aren'...

Jeff Ruby rolled into Nashville three and a half years ago on a branded tour bus with a cowboy hat on his head and declared Music City the new home of one of the most lavish steakhouses he’s ever built. The Ohio-based restaurateur was banking on Nashville’s unwavering appetite for red meat and potatoes, even as the city’s culinary status reached new heights. A fresh Vietnamese eatery, a restaurant with an anti-inflammatory foods menu, several seafood and oyster joints, a string of tiki bars, Middle Eastern restaurants and Detroit-style pizza have all landed in Nashville in the past couple years. Buy Photo A bone-in filet is prepared in the kitchen at Jimmy Kelly's Steakhouse in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean) So have at least five new steakhouses. Just like Ruby, the restaurant owners behind steakhouse c...