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  • Critics' Rating: **

    Key to Prices and ratings

    Upscale
    • Almost Perfect
    • Exceptional
    • Generally Excellent
    • Very Good
    • Good
    Cheap Eats
    • Best in Category
    • Excellent
    • Delicious
    • Very Good
    • Noteworthy
    • Very Expensive
    • Expensive
    • Moderate
    • Cheap
  • Reader Rating:

    9.4 out of 10

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    17 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: Steakhouse

Official Website

peterluger.com

Prices

$75-$95

Payment Methods

Cash Only

Special Features

  • Classic NY
  • Good for Groups
  • Kid-Friendly
  • Private Dining/Party Space
  • Special Occasion

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

Required

Profile

The room isn't handsome, street-slick, or even particularly welcoming. It recalls the kind of establishment that sports a banner running from beam to beam every year proclaiming !oktoberfest! The patrons may have come here straight from their booths at the Javits Center. The staff goes about its nonstop business with cordial if mechanical efficiency, serving onion-and-tomato salads, creamed spinach, and pasty fried potatoes. So why is it always more crowded than Toys 'R' Us on the weekend before Christmas? Because there are few gastronomic sensations that confirm the good life better than a hunk of a spectacular steak. And Peter Luger can broil and deliver one magnificently aged and marbleized two-finger-thick porterhouse after another with the unfailing certainty of Dustin Hoffman adenoidally reciting baseball scores. So don't even ask for a menu. Get big. Eat beef. — Hal Rubenstein

Extra

Apply for your own Peter Luger credit card, or bring cash.

Recommended Dishes

Steak for two, $81; steak for three, $124.50; steak for four, $166; creamed spinach, $8.95; sizzling canadian bacon, $2.95/slice

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Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10		 Write Your Own Review
100% Would you go back?
94% Would you take a date?
70% Would you take kids?
88% Would you go on business?
94% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 9.8
Service: 8.6
Décor: 6.8
Value: 8.2

can't go wrong

big_pickle from | Posted on 11/13/05

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 10
Service: 6
Décor: 6
Value: 9

The steak is pure and delicious. I recommend medium rare which is much more favorful than medium well. The side vegetables are unexpectedly good. Compared to steak houses in the same category as Peter Luger's, the pricing is excellent. There is enough space between tables that bringing kids would be fine.

steak for the non-carnivorous

pcelica from | Posted on 7/12/05

Overall Rating: 9 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 9
Service: 9
Décor: 8
Value: 9

i am slowly on my way to becoming a vegetarian, but our medium rare was truly to die for. i do not know what they did to that cow, but it's absolute magic by the time it gets to you. we were worried by accounts of scary waiters, but ALL of ours were absolutely doting and fantastic. worth the wait for a reservation, or for those looking for a way back from the vegan world.

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