Caesar’s Steak House

A solid 4.5 stars. We came to Caesars for romantic dinner for two. The restaurant has an old school classic steakhouse charm. This place is classy, service is super attentive and friendly, food is tasty and they make a wonderfully cooked and flavoured ribeye. What can I say, the value is amazing. You can’t get this quality of steak, with a side, a salad and a soup, all for $ 53. If you love your steaks, this place is worth checking out.

Awful awful service. My reviews are always fair, but I want to just emphasize what happened to me and my girlfriend here on Valentine’s: The server literally asked us if we could afford this restaurant (We are 20), and then he told us we should learn a thing or two about «legitimate and adult» restaurants when we said we do not fancy wine. With that being said, I used to be a cook so I did tip because I enjoyed the food and I knew the cooks get a percentage: he then asked me if I ordered too much and couldn’t afford to tip higher (I tipped 15% because of his awful service). I was baffled as any of you would be.

The SE location has better service, food and spicy Caesar. The food was good but our waiter wasn’t the friendliest. The spicy Caesar was good but not my favourite. Would come again but to the other location.

Fantastic service, amazing food. Our server Rudy was a gentleman the entire evening and the restaurant accommodated for our 2 Month old to join us and our guests from Japan. Very happy and will be returning in the future!

The coat check is nice as you come in. However the experience kind of went down from there. Went for new years Eve so our table was on the side of the entrance as a make shift table so people kept rubbing against us and bumping our chairs. The drinks were extremely tiny, even just a gingerale. They charge you per non alcoholic drink too. The cheese toast was pretty average, onion soup was too salty and looked like it was prepared from a can, garden salad came from a bag and the dressing was over powering. The lobster scampi was pretty amazing though, I highly recommend it. The twice baked potato was good and the steak was average. It was undercooked. My husbands rib eye and my tenderloin were both supposed to be medium rare but came out very rare. I wouldn’t recommend going here. There is better steak and seafood in this city for the same price.
Also the service was terrible. The waiter doesn’t care about your night, just reads off a script. Doesn’t ask you if you want another drink, only came back once to refill our water and when we paid he didn’t seem to like his 15 percent tip and didn’t tell us to have a good night. He just walked away from the table. I think 15 percent is good seeing how the service and good was below average.

When I want a good steak, Caesars is definitly the place to go. Professional and Friendly waiters. I noticed all of the waiters are men, you don’t see half dressed ladies walking around trying to be servers without knowing what they are doing. You are getting professional service. I had the 3 course which came with a Salad, Soup and T-​Bone steak. Wow you are really getting your moneys worth! better then the KEG. Without a doubt it is definitely one of my favourite restaurants in Calgary. The place has got an old school vibe. I guess old is gold!

What fun! I am a fan of old, set in time places– and this one qualifies!
Set in 1979, this vinyl-​clad red-​booth and white-​table-​cloth steakhouse pays homage to ROME and Julius Caesar, with white roman columns throughout, photos and art of Roman antiquities, and of course the Roman BBQ pit, aflame in the middle of the dining room, attended by chefs cooking up some damn good meat.
Started with a Ceasar, reminiscent of a Bloody Mary but with Clamato and celery salt, a Canadian favorite that supposedly started right here. Moved on to the Langostino Scampi starter in Garlic and butter– can’t go wrong with that! The salad was a bit heavy, the soup a bit salty, and the baked potato a little fake cheesy. The small filet, cooked medium rare and served on a hot plate was an example of steak perfection! Delicious and cooked perfectly– flavorful and moist. All this with a good Argentinian Malbec to wash it down.
We were too stuffed for desert. What a great evening!

Went there for dinner. The place still maintains its old look and feel, you get a great feeling just walking through the door. Great food and wine menu, and the food itself was fantastic. The steak was probably the best I’ve ever had! Highly recommended.

I passed this place while taking the 300 bus into DT Calgary from YYC. I immediately loved the rustic signage from a bygone era and thought «hmmm I’d like to see what this place looks like on the inside».
Fast forward 9 hours and my colleague and I were heading inside Caesar’s. The moment you walk in, you feel like you are in some 1960’s Las Vegas room. I personally loved it.
Our server was attentive, cordial and friendly. He suited this place to a T. My colleague and I were deep in conversation and the server gave us time and space until we were ready for our drink order. (A half litre of Malbec, which was divine)
We both ordered the fillet medium rare. I kid you not, Alberta beef is heavenly and they prepared our steaks to perfection. The accompanying potato was very tasty, yet interestingly prepared. I can’t describe how so, but if you come here you will get it.
Before the meal we got a small cup of onion soup, chilled salad on a chilled plate and bread in tin foil. Very, very reminiscent of a bygone era and bit kitschy, but in a totally good way.
Final result: a bit pricey, but a totally fun retro back to the 60’s experience. I can totally understand why some people love it and others are not so enthused. I like it a lot.
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Caesar’s is without question, one of my favorite restaurants in Calgary. I go a minimum twice a year — my birthday and my husband’s birthday. It has been our little tradition with Caesars since the day we met.
I have lived in Calgary for over 20 years and I have been going to Caesars since the beginning. Never have I walked in there and noticed any change in décor. It is not run down at all, but it is classic and never-​changing in its décor and ambiance.
It has a «boys club» feel, in the sense that if I scan the room, I am usually one of few females in there. It feels as though many business deals have been made in there over a steak lunch or dinner.
I have been in Caesars for lunches when staff members have had milestones (retirement, departures) and also for countless dinners with friends.
If I could describe Caesars in a few words it would be consistently delicious. The food doesn’t have a gourmet twist on it — they focus on what they do best which is out-​of-​this-​world steak.
Their onion soup, salads, potatoes and veggies are all extremely good as well. Again, no gourmet twist but better-​than-​basic, yumminess.
You haven’t really been to Calgary or had Alberta Beef without a trip to Caesars.

Don’t waste your money — go elsewhere.
Went out to celebrate some family visiting Calgary for the first time and chose Caesar’s based on the rave reviews. Unfortunately I have never had such an awful meal, especially at the prices they charge here. I eat a variety of different places, both high and low end and have enjoyed myself in all of them, this is the first time that I have actively wanted to walk out of restaurant.
I’ve outlined the pros and cons below in order to keep this review relatively short.
Pros:
Steak was okay. Not the best I’ve ever had but still pretty tasty
Managed to get a table at the last minute on a Saturday night
Valet parking is always a good thing
Cons:
The appetizers that come with the meals are underwhelming. Soup from a can, salad from a bag and the garlic bread was clearly pre-​made and frozen along with being SUPER greasy.
The garlic bread came wrapped in TIN FOIL. At an upscale restaurant!
My steak came with a Bearnaise sauce that tasted like a fried egg
Was NOT a good cut of steak, though the cooking and flavour were okay.
Our waiter was quite old and had a really hard time hearing or understanding us. I tried to be understanding but the tables around us were commenting as well.
We also had a really long wait between ordering drinks, then apps then our mains.
Oh, and it is not dressy at all. Most people were in jeans and I saw one couple in sweatsuits.

15 of us went here for dinner for my friend’s bachelorette party.
As far as restaurants in this price range go, I’m not a huge fan of the ones with the old school vibe and décor and this restaurant definitely falls into that category. I feel like its a place my parents or even grandparents would appreciate more than I do.
I ordered the Salmon Filet. The Salmon seemed like it was a little bit overcooked, as it didn’t flake right off as you’d expect for a $ 40 meal. But, the vegetables were delectable. A little sweet, but not too sweet. I wish I had gone with the waiters recommendation of the stuffed potato because the rice was very, very bland, as if someone just tossed a little bit of butter in it, and maybe some salt and pepper. I tried my friend’s stuffed potato and it was extremely flavorful. I also have to make note of the onion soup which came with a small circle of bread on top, which was perfect, not too soggy, not too tough, but absolutely delicious.
For a large group we were served pretty quickly, although the restaurant was maybe only a quarter full.
Perhaps if I ate beef I’d have a little bit better rating of this place, as they are a steakhouse. It was a nice experience, but just a little too stuffy for my taste.

FINALLY detoured the Keg, grabbed a few friends and made it out to Caesar’s!
Free valet was a wonderful option that the restaurant provides and we took it. The valet guy was great, prompt and honest as my husband left his brand new cell phone in plain view in the console and it was not touched.
Walked inside and WOW, the place is much larger than it looks from the outside, cavernous almost!
We were seated way at the back at 530pm (with resos) in a cave-​like area as the ceilings were lower in that spot. I liked it, and I liked that at first we were the only diners in at that point. It did fill up by 8pm or so, good crowd.
I personally loved the red, old school, gangster feel to the place. I had it all built up in my head from what I had read from on-​line reviews and it did not disappoint.
Our server was older, reserved, polite but in all honesty, I felt like he would have rather been doing cartwheels on the moon than serve tables this evening.
Our friends had been before and pointed out to us the menu area of Emperor’s Feast where you get a steak/​entrée, bread to start along with a garden salad, your choice of dressing) and a little French Onion soup. For me, it was a lot of food and I brought home half my entrée but I chose the wrong cut of steak for this restaurant. I was so looking forward to being able to «cut the meat with my butter knife» but on the NY Strip, this did not happen and my friend beside me also was disappointed in how tough hers was. She said it could have been an off day or bad meat selection as she has had the strip before here and said it was terrific. The men at the table scored with their steaks, those being a rib eye and the 10oz Filet. Both sumptuous, I got to try both and nothing needed additional seasoning. The server seemed to understand the trouble with the strips and his manager was nice enough to take $ 15 off each steak without us even asking for compensation of any kind. Classy. This review would have garnered a 4 or 4.5 if the meat had been a nicer cut, but the cookery itself was spot on. I loved how I could see the steak grilling from our table, outside the kitchen.
I loved the little details of this place — like how the salad plates were stone cold as they should be and the dinner plates were hot. The soup was OK, salad great and the bread was fantastic. My friend beside me went into orbit over their parm cheesy bread, a nice twist on fresh Texas Toast. I preferred the garlic toast included in the basket but both rated as excellent. Refills of the bread were no problem.
The table did not love how the skinny glasses of pop at almost $ 4 each did not include refills. But, the meals were a great value starting at $ 38 for the rib eye.
We would absolutely go back just for the originality of the place but I am sure there are other steakhouses in Calgary to try first.
3.5 stars.

Having been in Calgary since the 1980s, this recent visit to Caesar’s was admittedly my very first visit to the steak house. As others have said the décor is a blast from the past… It was actually too dark for my taste but I guess that’s the type of décor in style back in the 1970s.
Let’s start with the not so great… the blue cheese salad which was drenched in dressing, while the onion soup which was way too salty.
The two things that made a good impression were the cheese bread and the rib eye steak. The bread was the best I’ve had in a long while. The rib eye was tender and cooked to perfection… which I guess almost made up for the salty soup.

Great beef… The ambience is a little old style for my taste, but is still nice… There is always a lot of people, but the service is not bad… I would go back there for good beef!

Caesar’s has a reputation for it’s steak, however, vegetarian friends can also get the best of both worlds. The best part of Caesar’s in my opinion is their cheese bread. I cannot begin to explain how good the cheesebread is. It’s like from another planet. Somewhere where food is amazingly good.
I have a lot of meat eater friends and they love a good steak. They make a wonderful alternative for vegetarians which includes roasted potatoes, tomatoes, and other greens. It’s really delicious, well cooked, and all-​around good. So, don’t shy away from Caesar’s dear Veggie friends! Enjoy!

I’ve been to Caesar’s a few times for lunch and have always enjoyed every meal!
My boyfriend and I decided to have our anniversary dinner at Caesar’s (although both born and bred Calgarians, shockingly my boyfriend has never been here!)
After checking our coats, we were taken to our table and properly seated (how many places still pull your chair and drape napkins across your lap?) Once our drinks and food were ordered, we had a chance to take in the décor of the restaurant. For those who haven’t been here — you’re surrounded by dark burgundy leather chairs, pillars and roman artwork. I read up on Caesar’s and they’ve kept this place looking the same since they opened in the 1970’s — and it looks classy!
The bread came out, covered in foil — but I soon realized it was to keep the huge heaping basket of delicious garlic and cheese bread warm (to quote my boyfriend — Is all this bread for us?! hahaha)
The French Onion soup here is TO DIE FOR! Broth is perfectly flavored and cheese baked on top seals in the aroma of this soup until you’re ready to dig in. LOVE IT!
Our steaks were cooked perfectly and accompanied with a baked potato with all the fixings.
We managed to save some room for dessert and opted for the cheesecake and it was amazing — moist and not too heavy.
Will definitely be back again, always a good experience here :)

A classic, old boys club steakhouse. This place is an institution in downtown Calgary and I hope they never update the 1950s interior. Have the Caesar’s Special — a New York Strip grilled to perfection and basted in Caesar’s special BBQ sauce.

A decent steak for lunch, but to be honest I expected more.
When I dine is such a fancy establishment I expect the food to be at the same calibre as the restaurant’s perceived intricacy. My steak was cooked as I ordered it and quite good but definitely not worth some $ 30 when paired with the sub-​par fries I received. It was very interesting to watch them cook it on the indoor grill, but I could watch myself grill for a steak just as good and about a third of the price.
Great looking restaurant with some mediocre food.

We needed a place to go for my cousins 25^th birthday. 25^th birthdays are always a big deal.
We were able to get a reservation for a group of about 20 for a Thursday night easily.
To begin, there’s valet service on the weekends and evenings I believe. A nice little coat check, and then the interior is all swank. Rich red & golds. Love it. I read in a previous review describing it as «old Las Vegas» — that describes it perfectly!
The service here is unreal! Absolutely amazing! They are so attentive. People say this place is pricey — but I don’t think it’s unreasonable or thaaat expensive at all! The food is amazing! The entreas all include soup, salad, bread and then you MUST order the baked potato with your steak — IT’S unbelievably good.
I ordered the ribeye (I prefer it over the sirloin). figured if this place is as good as it’s made out to be then I’ll come back to try the fillet mignon (now dying to find an excuse to go back and try it).
The food is 5 stars, so is the service! I highly recommend visiting.
the onlyyy thing i didn’t like was that the bread was served in a foil basket. that threw off the experience a little.