Rochester Chop House & Kabin Kruser’s Oyster Bar

When Rochester wants to mark the occasion, this is the address. The Rochester Chop House is the town’s grown-up steak-and-seafood room — Delmonicos and bone-in ribeyes with a zippy house sauce, crab cakes, swordfish, oysters on the half shell — while its front-of-house sibling, Kabin Kruser’s Oyster Bar, does the raw bar and a well-priced happy hour in a cozier setting. A pianist plays toward the end of the week, caricatures of local notables watch over the dining room, and the whole thing carries the quietly clubby air of a place that’s been the anniversary-and-big-birthday pick on Main Street for years. It’s part of a long-running local restaurant family, so it’s polished rather than experimental — which, for a special occasion, is usually exactly the point. High on our list for a proper Rochester night out.