Solid surf-and-turf cellar, watch the dessert wines
King of Prussia · Philadelphia · American, Steakhouse, Seafood · Visit Website ↗
Updated June 2026
Reviewed March 24, 2026
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The wine list at Creed's opens with a confident swing — 100+ labels, a sommelier on staff, and a range that runs from Alsatian Riesling to Stags Leap Cask 23. It reads like a list that actually wants to sell you wine, not just fill a page. The price spread ($42–$265) is wide enough to accommodate a business dinner and a casual Tuesday night out.
California leads the charge here, with Napa Cabernet doing the heavy lifting — Ghost Block and Stags Leap Cask 23 anchor the red side of things with authority. Burgundy gets a respectable nod with the Louis Latour Grancey Corton at $200, and Champagne shows up properly with Gosset Grande Reserve rather than just defaulting to Veuve. Provence, Alsace, and Italy round things out without much depth, but the bones of the list are right for a steakhouse with serious seafood ambitions. The gaps show up in South America and anywhere outside Western Europe and California — don't come here looking for a Mencia or a Gruner.
Fifteen pours by the glass is a respectable lineup for a suburban steakhouse, and the presence of a sommelier suggests those selections aren't just whatever needs moving. We'd want to know more about rotation frequency, but what's on offer covers the major bases — sparkling, white, and red — without leaning entirely on the usual suspects.
Trimbach Riesling Alsace France 2016 — $44
At 47% over retail, this is one of the more honest markups on the list — and Trimbach Riesling is a legitimate producer with real age-worthiness. For a steakhouse, it's an underrated call next to your crab cakes.
Gosset Grande Reserve Champagne NV
Most tables walk past the Champagne section at a steakhouse and head straight for the Cab. Don't. Gosset is one of Champagne's oldest houses and Grande Reserve is a genuinely complex, biscuity, food-friendly pour — at $150 it's more honest than many big-label bottles here.
Ruffino Moscato d'Asti Piedmont Italy 2021
An $81 bottle of wine that retails for $18. That's a 350% markup on one of the most mass-market sweet wines on the planet. If you want something sweet to finish, order dessert and call it a night.
Trefethen Estate Chardonnay + Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes
Trefethen's Estate Chard is old-school Napa — restrained oak, good acidity, stone fruit without the butter bomb. It's built for rich shellfish without steamrolling it, which is exactly what those crab cakes need.
✔️ The Bottom Line
Creed's is a reliable wine destination for King of Prussia — the sommelier presence and list depth are real assets, and the California and Champagne selections punch above their weight class for a suburban steakhouse. Just stay away from the dessert wines unless you enjoy donating to the house.
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