Table Talk: Prime Rib Headed For Maryland Live! Casino
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The Prime Rib is coming to the Maryland Live Casino — Greenberg potato skins, leopard-skin carpeting, baby grand piano and all.
Established in Baltimore in 1965 by brothers Buzz and Nick Beler, the Prime Rib has is now a bona fide dining institution, with additional locations in Washington and Philadelphia. Attracting the Prime Rib to Maryland Live is a coup for the Baltimore-based Cordish Cos., which had originally announced that the casino’s premier steak house would be Ruth’s Chris.
“The Prime Rib kept coming up in internal conversations and on surveys,” said Cordish managing partner Joe Weinberg, who is overseeing the casino’s design, construction and operations.
The Prime Rib at the casino, Cordish and restaurant representatives said, will be the one Baltimore diners have grown to love.
“From the design to the training to the recipes to the uniform, it’s 100 percent the Prime Rib,” Weinberg said.
The Prime Rib at Maryland Live will have a few amenities the Baltimore restaurant doesn’t, though, including private dining rooms, an expansive bar area and a covered outdoor dining area with fire pits and lounge furniture.
Negotiations to bring the Prime Rib to Maryland Live began in late 2011, according to Buzz Beler, who praised the Cordish team for implementing his requests and advice.
“It looks like the Prime Rib and will be like the Prime Rib,” Beler said. “I’m going to be involved in all aspects. ... Forty-six years we’ve been in Baltimore. I think I know how to run a Prime Rib.”
The Prime Rib will join the previously announced Cheesecake Factory and Phillips Seafood, which will be part of a station-style buffet. Celebrity chef Bobby Flay will be represented at Maryland Live by his Bobby’s Burger Palace brand.
The scheduled June opening of the $500 million casino is pending approval from the Maryland State Lottery Agency. The Prime Rib is scheduled to open in the fall.