Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Best Steak House New York Is Located In Brooklyn

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 the finest United States Department of Agriculture prime meat is used. The selection process is critical and is therefore done personally by a member of the family. Carcasses are purchased daily from wholesale markets and most comprise of fresh beef from the Midwest area.

The steakhouse is virtually on Manhattan's doorstep and it's packed to capacity for lunch and dinner every day. For hungry carnivores, tucking into butter-tender, hand-picked Luger steaks is like being in seventh heaven. The selection of the carcasses is so critical that the family only settles for the perfect fat conformation, bone content, and color.

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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