Charles Anthony’s Restaurant “The Pub”

Charles Anthony’s Restaurant, known locally as The Pub, has served hand-cut steaks and fresh seafood in Montgomery since 1972, making it one of the longest-running independent steakhouses in the city. Owner Charles Anthony Kamburis Jr. has kept the restaurant family-run for more than five decades, relocating it from its original spot at Montgomery Mall to its current location on Chantilly Parkway in April 2005, where it has remained since.

The menu blends the restaurant’s American steakhouse core with the Greek flavors Kamburis brought to the original concept in the 1970s, a combination that still shows up in the way dishes are described on the current menu. The restaurant’s own materials emphasize that recipes are made fresh from scratch in house daily, a claim that lines up with a menu built around hand-cut steaks and seafood dishes that change with what is fresh rather than a fixed, never-changing lineup.

Nightly specials rotate through fresh seafood options; a recent dinner special listed a fresh grilled red snapper topped with jumbo lump crab meat, a dish that reflects the kitchen’s willingness to lean on seafood as heavily as it leans on steak. That range, hand-cut beef alongside genuinely fresh fish and shellfish, has helped the restaurant hold a loyal following across generations of Montgomery diners rather than only appealing to a strict steakhouse crowd.

The restaurant keeps evening-only hours, opening at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and closing at 9:30 p.m. on weeknights or 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with Sundays off entirely. That schedule signals a dinner-focused restaurant rather than a lunch spot, built for guests planning an evening out rather than a quick weekday meal.

Having operated under the same family for more than fifty years and through one major relocation, Charles Anthony’s has become something of an institution among Montgomery’s independent steakhouses, a category increasingly dominated elsewhere in the city by national chains. Its combination of hand-cut steaks, a Greek-influenced menu, and nightly seafood specials gives it a distinct identity that has held up since the Nixon administration.

For a Montgomery dinner built around a proper hand-cut steak or a fresh seafood special, backed by more than five decades of family ownership, Charles Anthony’s Restaurant remains one of the city’s most established independent steakhouses.

The restaurant’s longevity is unusual even among Montgomery’s more established independent restaurants, having weathered a relocation, changing dining trends, and the arrival of national steakhouse chains in the city without losing its identity. Regulars who have followed the restaurant from its original Montgomery Mall location to Chantilly Parkway describe a menu and an approach to hospitality that has stayed recognizably the same across that move.

That kind of continuity, the same family running the same restaurant concept for more than fifty years, is increasingly rare in a dining landscape dominated by rotating concepts and short-lived openings. Charles Anthony’s Restaurant offers a direct link back to Montgomery’s steakhouse dining scene of the 1970s, still serving the same combination of hand-cut beef and fresh seafood that defined it from the start.

Even as newer steakhouses and national chains have opened in Montgomery over the years, Charles Anthony’s has held onto a loyal customer base by leaning into what has always set it apart, an old-school, family-run dining room where the same owner has overseen the kitchen for decades. For guests who remember the restaurant from its original Montgomery Mall days, a visit to the Chantilly Parkway location still carries some of that same familiar, unhurried steakhouse atmosphere. The restaurant’s staying power, through one relocation and more than five decades of ownership by the same family, has made it a genuine reference point for Montgomery’s independent dining scene.