Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse

The wine list at Jeff Ruby's arrives like the room itself — heavy, confident, and not shy about what it costs. Three hundred-plus bottles spread across California, Tuscany, Bordeaux, Oregon, and New Zealand signals serious intent. This isn't a list someone assembled on a slow Tuesday; there's a sommelier fingerprint all over it.

California dominates, as you'd expect from a steakhouse of this pedigree — Silver Oak Alexander Valley and the Prisoner show up like reliable regulars, and Pahlmeyer's Jayson Napa Valley at $190 anchors the aspirational Cab tier without going completely nuclear. The European bench is real too: Domaine Faiveley Bourgogne for Burgundy-heads, Chateau Pey la Tour for Bordeaux classicists, and Masseto sitting at $450 for anyone who wants to blur the line between dinner and a car payment. The Tuscany-heavy Italian section adds depth beyond the usual Chianti suspects. Gaps show up in natural wine and anything off the beaten path — this list wants to impress, not provoke.

Eighteen-plus options by the glass is a solid number for a steakhouse, and the $14–$25 range means you can get into something respectable without committing to a bottle. The selection skews predictably toward crowd-pleasing Cabs and Chardonnays, but that's the room talking — the by-the-glass program does what it needs to do here.