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Porter House New York

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10 Columbus Cir., 4th fl, New York, NY 10019 40.767708 -73.982284
at 59th St. See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
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Cuisine: American Traditional, Steakhouse
Price Range:
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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:
6.9 out of 10
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Official Website

porterhousenewyork.com

Hours

Sun-Thu, noon-3pm and 5pm-10:30pm; Fri-Sat, noon-3pm and 5pm-11pm

Nearby Subway Stops

1, A, B, C, D at 59th St.-Columbus Circle

Prices

$28-$46

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

Dine at the Bar
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Private Dining/Party Space
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Alcohol

Full Bar

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Profile

Michael Lomonaco has returned to the city’s fine-dining stage, with a new restaurant called Porter House New York. As the name suggests, it’s a steakhouse. And why not? In good times and bad, high times and low, the steakhouse endures. The venerable, timeworn genre was invented here (New York is the home of the porterhouse cut), and the steakhouse is to meat-hungry, expense-account-fueled New Yorkers what the bistro is to Parisians, the clam shack is to Cape Codders, and the barbecue joint is to the sauce-slathered residents of North Carolina and Tennessee. Which is to say, in the high-stakes-casino world of increasingly pricey and baroque big-city restaurants, there’s no safer bet.

There’s also a settled formula to the old New York chophouse, which even the greatest chefs deviate from at their peril. The former occupant of the Porter House space was Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s much-maligned V Steakhouse. At this doomed establishment, the décor resembled the lobby of a second-tier Belle Époque hotel, and steaks were served with ridiculous garnishes like candied kumquats and rhubarb ketchup. Mr. Lomonaco is having none of this frippery. At Porter House, the room is colored in familiar clubby shades of tobacco brown. There’s a bar area up front, where caged magnums of Cabernet are on display and groups of pink-faced corporate lieutenants cluster with their frosty cocktails under a glimmering TV tuned to the ball game. The dining room, designed by Jeffrey Beers (Japonais, Fiamma), is spacious, with beamy rafters and lines of starched white-topped tables looking out over Central Park. There’s a traditional oyster pan roast on the menu, numerous varieties of porterhouse (veal, lamb, pork, beef, even monkfish), and no kumquats or rhubarb stalks in sight. — Adam Platt

Note

The traditional Porter House New York is open for the traditional three-martini business lunch.

Ideal Meal

Tongue salad or oyster pan roast, chile-rubbed rib eye, coconut layer cake.

Food:	10

Service:	8

Décor:	9

Value:	9

Food:	5

Service:	4

Décor:	7

Value:	6

The decor looked great, the special $35 price for 3 courses seemed fine, but as I looked at the window next to my table, I saw the wooden blinds were caked with dust. And the top of some circular booths near us also were dust covered. Totally turned us off. As for the meal, the steak was only only so-so, the dessert (chocolate torte) was too dry and no one even asked if we'd like a cup of coffee before the waiter brought the check. Very disappointing.

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