Fredrick Inn Steakhouse St Joseph Missouri

Why the Fredrick Inn made the SteakMap list

The Fredrick Inn is the oldest kind of American steakhouse and increasingly the rarest: hand-cut beef, a soup and salad bar, homemade rolls, and prices that have not been rewritten for a different clientele.

Every entrée comes with the soup and salad bar — or soup and a fresh spinach salad if you prefer — plus rolls and a choice of vegetable or potato. A 10oz hand-cut top sirloin runs under seventeen dollars with all of that included. There is no version of that arithmetic in a metro steakhouse.

What they actually cut

The board is built around a Kansas City strip, which is the right cut for a St. Joseph menu, along with filet mignon, top sirloin, ribeye and slow-roasted prime rib in three weights. The prime rib carries the honest parenthetical (while it lasts!), meaning they roast a set number and stop when they are gone.

The Manhattan Steak is worth understanding rather than skipping: freshly ground beef, bacon-wrapped, grilled and served under mushroom gravy. It is a Depression-era steakhouse dish, essentially a chopped steak done properly, and it survives on very few menus.

Land and Sea

The pairing menu is pure old-school: pick one steak — 10oz prime rib, 8oz KC strip, 4oz filet, 10oz top sirloin or 10oz ribeye — and mate it with strip clams, catfish, tilapia or shrimp, fried or spiced. One price for the whole plate.

Blackened steaks are available on request, and sauteed onions or mushrooms are a couple of dollars.

Menu prices

As published on the Fredrick Inn’s own menu, August 2026: land and sea $27.95, 16oz prime rib $27.95, 12oz prime rib $24.95, 10oz prime rib $22.95, prime rib sandwich $16.95, 10oz house top sirloin $16.95, 10oz Manhattan steak $15.95, 6oz top sirloin $12.95 and the 6oz Manhattan steak $12.95. All entrées include the soup and salad bar, rolls and a side.

Read the guide to the best steakhouses in Missouri.