Peter Lugers?

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Originally posted by swirsk53

Lugers rules:

The "Steak Sauce" is NOT for the steak.
The "steak sauce" IS for the tomatoes and onions.

So, this stuff is not for steaks?

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Originally posted by MiamiDon

quote:

Originally posted by swirsk53

Lugers rules:

The "Steak Sauce" is NOT for the steak.
The "steak sauce" IS for the tomatoes and onions.

So, this stuff is not for steaks?

you can put it on anything you want, obviously. if your preference is to put what amounts to cocktail sauce on your dry-aged steak then no one is going to stop you. to my mind that isn't really part of the "luger experience", which I think is what many people go for.

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Originally posted by tommyeats


you can put it on anything you want, obviously. if your preference is to put what amounts to cocktail sauce on your dry-aged steak then no one is going to stop you. to my mind that isn't really part of the "luger experience", which I think is what many people go for.

I've never been there. I've just seen the sauce in the supermarket.

Cocktail sauce, eh? Perhaps I should try it on shrimp.

 So, the word on the street is that our very own Buffetbuster went to Peter Luger's today for the very FIRST time!
    I'm bumping this thread in hopes of him filling us in on all of the (hopefully) JUICY details...
       

I finally went to Morton's and was not impressed. I am going to Luger's and Bern's during the summer. I am interested in whether they make a better steak than I can make. I am assuming they can, but Shula's or Morton's I can make, though the sides were good. I will comment later in the summer after I complete the double. When I was in Mississippi, I blew off Doe's place, which I regret.

Hey Dawn, 
 
I was just with Mr. BB (for the first time!) but I'll let him give you the skinny on his experience.  A busy day of Roadfooding in Brooklyn and now off to the Grand Central Oyster Bar and then maybe concretes and PIE after!wards!

 Oh, Youse guyses are KILLIN' me!   

The burger was so amazing, I would rank it just a small notch below the Bobcat Bite.  It was THAT good!  Everything TTM told me about the place was 100% true.  I will be back.

I'll be heading to PL myself on May 13 and I'll let you all know about my experience. It's my first time going.

When I first caught the aroma of that sirloin, I never even thought about the sauce

danimal15-
Looking forward to reading about your meal at Peter Luger's.  Are you going for lunch or dinner?

not everyone is crazy about PL.  I love reading this review, it's a old one but still fresh, funny and true.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEBKjH0qTP3c&refer=muse

Alan Richman also claimed that it was the second best burger in the country. The burger article was written about seven months before the review. If he were a politician, he would be accused of flip-flopping.
 
In my own rankings, it is the best burger I have ever eaten - and I have eaten more than my fair share. I'm not a restaurant critic, but I get around. I have never had the occasion to experience the rude service that others report - but, maybe in my dozen or so times eating there I've just gotten lucky.
 
Let the Luger's haters scream from the rooftops - maybe it will make it easier for me to get a table when I want one.

I think that he is dead wrong on most counts.  Maybe his problem is that he is "too full of himself".  I have been twice for  for lunch and four times  for dinner.  Every time,  we had an amazing meal, and our servers were always friendly and nice.  They were great with the kids and spent time talking with us.  I do not care for the steak sauce  but  every time that we have ordered tomatoes, we have wondered where they could get such beauties; the steaks are pefection; the sides all great, and best of all we have fun there.  Oh yes, the bartenders that we had at lunches  was fun and cheerful. 
 
        This past month,My friend and I had dinner there on our way back from visiting his grandson at New Haven, and we had such a great time, that we did not even make it back home!  We stayed overnight in  New Jersey.

My experience was mixed. The steak was great. However, when I ordered a burger rare at lunch, was served one well done, and sent it back, I got the dreaded " teach this guy a lesson, give it to him raw" experience . This is not, of course, uncommon, but one expects better here than the practices of a Longhorn Steak House.

Greymo-
   Overnight in New Jersey???  You must have had some serious road-disabling events after your dinner !! No-Body actually stays in New Jersey unless they have family there !!
   Signed,
   Mayor Al
   Who has not spent a night in New Jersey
   Since his escape in 1978 !! (but has made a
  couple of day trips thru the State, with his doors
  locked and his windows rolled up !!)

Al, were you were playing the music theme from "The Soprano's" and smoking a big stogie while driving?

Al, as a Giants fan, one gets used to staying in New Jersey!  It is a lot more fun staying in a $100.00  a night room (with free parking)  than a 300.00 one, plus parking fee, right across the river in NYC

I've long dreamed of a steak at PLs and had an opportunity to do so in early Dec last year. A business associate of my wife made a sale that my wife contributed significantly to and she treated us to dinner. Logistics (train from New Haven to GC and back) required a later afternoon reservation (4PM). The place was full at this hour. Staff was fine, not surly at all. We had the bacon and steak for three (medium rare) and fries and tomatoes. I have to admit being a little crestfallen as the steak was a disappointment. I can grill at home a choice local butcher market strip that tastes as good as PLs offering. No detectable beefy, dry aged funkiness. This was the strip side of the porterhouse, mind you. A week later a Ruth's Chris strip was far superior. I'll charge it up to an off instance and would not hesitate going there again, but ...