Friday, April 22, 2011

The Best Steak House New York Is Undoubtedly Peter Luger's

By Janine Hester


For 26 years in a row, Peter Luger's has been rated the best steak house New York, a title that not many would dispute. This establishment in Brooklyn has been serving succulent, sizzling steaks for well over 100 years and has received accolades from food gurus, writers, and chefs from all over the world. There is also a branch at Great Neck, Long Island.

In 1887, Peter Luger founded the steakhouse and he set the bar at the highest level possible. The thriving business was purchased in 1950 from Luger's grandchildren. The buyers are still the current owners, a family that is dedicated to upholding Peter's reputation.

Only top-quality USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) endorsed prime beef is purchased on the carcass. The family personally selects the carcasses to ensure that they get the best meat possible. The carcasses are purchased on a daily basis from a wholesale market. Most of the beef used farmed in the Midwest area.

The restaurant is literally a stone's throw from Manhattan and it is packed out every day and night with hungry carnivores. Every serving of perfect, butter-tender steak is hand-picked and dry-aged in the steakhouse cellar. It is then carefully prepared, plated and served to expectant patrons. While selecting the carcasses, each is scrutinized for color, bone content, and fat conformation.

The color should be pink and the fat conformation evenly dispersed. This is what the word, marbling, means in the culinary world. During the dry-aging process, the carcasses sit in temperature controlled coolers with air circulating around them. Only after they have aged perfectly are they butchered and taken to the kitchen.

After six visits to Luger's, a prominent food critic wrote that the quality is unsurpassed in the whole of America, let alone New York. If you've never been there, this statement may sound somewhat over the top. But, if you have eaten there, you probably concur wholeheartedly.

Don't think you can just pick up the phone and book a table for tonight at this best steak house New York. You will have to wait at least two weeks for a weeknight reservation. And, for a Saturday night reservation, you can expect to wait for a month. If you want to book a private function, this must be done many months in advance. But the good news is that the official website has an online butchery. Therefore, you can buy these delicious dry-aged steaks plus the authentic Luger mouth-watering Old-Fashioned sauce.

Best Steak House New York




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