The hottest news buzzing around town has nothing to do with politics or media or the usual headline-grabbing subjects. No, the hottest news sizzlingly -- pun totally intended -- in our city is that the universally acclaimed Peter Luger's Steakhouse got a zero star rating in The New York Times.
Ouch! That's like Einstein teaching at Harvard and saying that all of his students are morons. It is, what we would call these days, a sick burn.
Peter Luger's, for decades, has been considered the best steakhouse in NYC bar none. But people and places can only coast on a strong reputation for so long. You have to keep making a sustained case of your continued excellence, for your continued relevance, and you have to keep delivering the goods or, after a while, you'll get called out as an exhausted volcano, an emperor with no clothes, a has-been. That sadly, is Peter Luger's fate. However, I'm sure they'll be able to turn it around.
Here's the truth: you can get a great porterhouse just about anywhere in this town or country these days. For a long, long time Luger's has not had a monopoly on that. And the best part of Luger's wasn't even the steak: it was the ambiance, the service, the incredible bacon appetizer, and the strudel with generous amounts of shlag.
For my money, Christos Steakhouse in Astoria is the best one I've gone to NYC: great service and meat, very fresh and perfectly cooked, plus they've got oysters and a great wine list. It's small, initmate, and not a tourist trap. A real NYC steakhouse.
Also, let this be a lesson to us all of the dangers of "drift", of slow decay, of gradual decline. We must be ever vigilant to sustain our personal springs -- or else fall into winter and get frozen out.
Peter Luger's, for decades, has been considered the best steakhouse in NYC bar none. But people and places can only coast on a strong reputation for so long. You have to keep making a sustained case of your continued excellence, for your continued relevance, and you have to keep delivering the goods or, after a while, you'll get called out as an exhausted volcano, an emperor with no clothes, a has-been. That sadly, is Peter Luger's fate. However, I'm sure they'll be able to turn it around.
Here's the truth: you can get a great porterhouse just about anywhere in this town or country these days. For a long, long time Luger's has not had a monopoly on that. And the best part of Luger's wasn't even the steak: it was the ambiance, the service, the incredible bacon appetizer, and the strudel with generous amounts of shlag.
For my money, Christos Steakhouse in Astoria is the best one I've gone to NYC: great service and meat, very fresh and perfectly cooked, plus they've got oysters and a great wine list. It's small, initmate, and not a tourist trap. A real NYC steakhouse.
Also, let this be a lesson to us all of the dangers of "drift", of slow decay, of gradual decline. We must be ever vigilant to sustain our personal springs -- or else fall into winter and get frozen out.
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