Steakhouse Gift Cards in Gainesville, GA: How They Work

You can buy a CHR Steak gift card online at any hour and it lands in the recipient's inbox in minutes. CHR Steak is a dry-aged steakhouse at 126 Bradford St NE, Suite 100, in downtown Gainesville, Georgia, serving dinner Tuesday through Sunday from 5:00 to 10:00 PM, with Happy Hour from 4:30 to 6:00 PM.

Every December somebody on your list is impossible. They have enough sweaters, they do not need another bottle opener, and they would never book a steak dinner for themselves. That is the person a gift card is for. It hands them a night out on the square and the permission to order the tomahawk without checking the price first.

• Where to buy: online, from the gift card section of our homepage or the Gift Cards link at the top of every page.
• Delivery: by email, in minutes.
• Where to use it: CHR Steak, 126 Bradford St NE, Suite 100, Gainesville, GA 30501.
• Questions: (678) 696-5111 or reservations@chrsteak.com.

How does a CHR Steak gift card work?

A CHR Steak gift card is bought online and delivered by email, usually within minutes of checkout. You choose an amount, enter the recipient's email address, and check out. They get a message with the card, and they bring it with them to dinner in downtown Gainesville.

Because it is digital, it is also the one present on your list that cannot arrive late. If you remember a birthday at eleven at night, you can still give a steak dinner before midnight.

Who is a steakhouse gift card actually for?

A steakhouse gift card suits anyone who would enjoy a long dinner but would not plan one for themselves. In practice that covers a surprising part of the list:

• Parents and in-laws who say they want nothing, and mean it, until they are seated at a banquette.
• A couple with a new baby, a new house, or a new job, who could use a night out that is already paid for.
• The colleague who covered for you all year, or a client who sends you business.
• The bourbon person, who will spend half the night on the private barrel bourbon and the whiskey list.
• Anyone who has heard about the dry-age room and keeps meaning to try it.

The last group is bigger than you would think. Plenty of people in Hall County have heard about the glass dry-age room on Bradford Street and wondered what four weeks of dry-aging does to a steak. A gift card is a good excuse to find out, and our guide to why dry-aged steak tastes better is a good thing to forward along with it.

How much should you put on a steakhouse gift card?

Put on enough to cover a full dinner for the people you expect to use it, so nobody has to do math at the table. A card that pays for most of the evening feels like a gift. A card that covers half a steak feels like a coupon.

The easiest way to land on a number is to open the menu and build the dinner you are giving: a starter or something from the raw bar, two steaks or one shared tomahawk, a couple of sides, and a drink each. If the people you are buying for like to linger over cocktails or a bottle of wine, leave room for that too.

A card that pays for most of the evening feels like a gift. A card that covers half a steak feels like a coupon.

What can the recipient order with it?

Your recipient can order from the full dinner menu, which means the whole steak program is open to them. The list runs from wet-aged USDA Prime cuts to in-house dry-aged steaks, aged a minimum of four weeks, to American Wagyu and a rotating wild game selection. The signature cut is the 32oz Tomahawk, built for two.

If they are not sure where to start, send them our guide on how to order steak at a steakhouse, which walks through cuts, temperatures, and what to share. Not everyone at the table has to eat beef, either. The menu carries seafood, salads, and the raw bar, and the cocktail list has the CHR-presso Martini and the Bourbon Brew Old Fashioned for the end of the night.

What if the celebration is bigger than a dinner for two?

When the occasion is a group rather than a couple, the better present may be the room itself. Our Executive Suite private dining room seats up to 28 guests with a dedicated event coordinator, two servers, and a 75 inch television, which suits a milestone birthday, an anniversary, or a family that only gets together in December. If you are planning a dinner rather than giving one, our guide to planning a private dinner in Gainesville covers the details.

For any question about how a gift card can be used, call (678) 696-5111 before you plan around it. It is quicker than guessing.

One thing a gift card is not is a Blade Club membership. Membership is offered by invitation or application, and each member's knives are engraved with their own name, so it is something a regular grows into rather than something you can wrap.

Are gift cards a good year-end gift for clients and employees?

Yes. A dinner is one of the few year-end gifts that a client or a team member will actually remember in February. It also travels well: a card sent by email reaches a remote employee in another state as easily as someone down the hall. If you are buying for a whole team, call (678) 696-5111 or email reservations@chrsteak.com to talk it through.

If you would rather host the thank-you yourself, the Executive Suite is built for it. A client dinner for a dozen people in a private room says something a card in an envelope cannot, and you can send a private dining inquiry in a few minutes.

Do steakhouse gift cards expire?

Under federal rules, the money on a gift card generally cannot expire sooner than five years from the date the card was bought or last loaded, and any expiration date has to be disclosed on the card or its terms. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's gift card guidance explains what to look for, and the federal gift card rule itself spells out the details. Read the terms that come with any card when you buy it.

Either way, the best advice is the simplest. Tell the person you gave it to, and nudge them in January. A gift card in a forgotten inbox does nobody any good.

Make it a night out in downtown Gainesville

The nicest version of this present is a whole evening, not only a meal. Downtown Gainesville is easy to walk, with free parking decks and free two-hour street parking around the historic square, and the Explore Gainesville events calendar shows what is on that week. Our date night guide to downtown Gainesville lays out the rest, from the first cocktail to the last bite.

When the card arrives, the next step is a table. Reservations are highly recommended, and they can reserve a table on OpenTable or call (678) 696-5111.