Bob Taylor cooks up his famous steaks in a cherished family photo. (Image: Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat About Bob?<\/h2>\n The oldest steakhouse in Las Vegas is Bob Taylor\u2019s Original Ranch House, which still stands where it has for 69 years at 6250 Rio Vista St.<\/p>\n
In September 1955, Taylor and his wife, Ila, opened their restaurant in part of the living quarters of what was then their skeet-shooting ranch.<\/p>\n
It was at the insistence of Bob’s guests, who raved about the steak dinners he expertly barbecued for them at the end of every day\u2019s shoot.<\/p>\n
Taylor would man the grill while drinking whiskey and spitting ice onto the hot coals.<\/p>\nBob Taylor’s Original Ranch House is the oldest Las Vegas steakhouse and\u00a0 also pretty much<\/em>\u00a0the oldest one in continuous operation. (Image: Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCelebrities including Elvis Presley and Sinatra himself reportedly made what was then the 20-minute drive out of town for the unique experience. (The skeet-shooting scene in the 1964 Presley film \u201cViva Las Vegas\u201d was filmed at the ranch, with none other than Taylor blasting the clay targets off-camera.)<\/strong><\/p>\nTaylor lived until March 2010, one day short of his 88th birthday. But he didn\u2019t hold onto his steakhouse. In 1983, he sold it to Bob Ratner, about whom very little information is published on the internet.<\/p>\n
Ratner operated the restaurant until August 1997, when a two-year road construction project nearby reportedly slashed his business from an average of 250 people a night to 50.<\/p>\n
A month later, Ratner sold the shuttered steakhouse to its current owner, Jeffrey Special. According to the Las Vegas Sun,<\/em> Special opened it right back up in October 1997 with a former business partner.<\/p>\nMenu from Golden Steer. (Image: Trip Advisor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSo Bob Taylor\u2019s Original Ranch House, Las Vegas\u2019 oldest steakhouse by seven years, was closed for only about 90 days.<\/p>\n
Most restaurant renovations take longer than that.<\/p>\n
So no, we don\u2019t think the Steer can rightly claim to be even the oldest continually operating<\/em> steakhouse in Las Vegas, any more than it can claim to have opened four years before it actually did.<\/strong><\/p>\nMultiple messages left for Michael Signorelli, who has owned the Golden Steer since 2001, were not returned before this story was published.<\/p>\n
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