Peter Luger responds to New York Times' scathing zero-star review 

p995 honestly. I’m from Oklahoma and I’m hearing about this place for the first time

Not at all.

@@vanillaoreo251 I'm from ny and it's the first time I hear about it. Another "coincidence"

1995Rebel So you’re from NY and never heard of peter Luger? I’m just curious, how old are you ? Cuz if you’re young, I could understand you never hearing of this place... and are you from NY or you moved here from some other state or country? I’m asking genuinely cuz then Peter Luger gotta do a better job of marketing to a younger crowd. A place that been open 100+ years is obviously doing something right tho

I was gonna say the same. I haven't seen Peter Luger get any press in years. It's not like they ever need it...

joseph frennett One Barstool fan representing in the comments everyone knows Pres is proud.

One bite!

Pete wells is no rookie

You speak my heart

Misogynistic douche

Tony, you got that right ! The waiters and staff are old sourpuss dorks. Would it kill them to smile ? Wear some deodorant ? Wash up a little ? Put in a little effort ? Are these people all miserable ?

Yes, at Peter luger the staff were not interested in good service. Their attitude was like your are lucky to be here. They forgot that Customers are what keep them going.

they should hire a young staff

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@cm. CG "steak" you idiot sandwich

😂😂😂. I see what you did

A high "steaks" game they're playing.......hehehe

Tis true but did you know that someone whose last name rhymes with shmepstein, didn’t kill himself?

It was a drive by fruiting!

Lmfao

Kale's like " whoa, whoa, WHOA!"

Meow

did you just assume kale's gender???!! ur cancelled bub

charlie kim oh you got monnnneeyyyyy

What was the bill? It seems the complaint was mostly about the salads and fries and potatoes. How were those?

@@GizmoMaltese For 2 people, it's roughly $200 rounding up. Was just there last week with my wife.

I went there last Tuesday (2/16/21.) My girlfriend and I split the porterhouse for two, the home fries, and the creamy spinach. She had an Old Fashion while I went with the base Macallan. The bill was $190 and with an 18% tip the total was $235.

I probably eat steak at home nine times out of ten. And I know how to cook it.

Understand that. But a 0 star for Peter Luger's?!

Steak is so simple to cook it’s embarrassing.

Very tough to get dry aged steak in many places

@@BillLaBrie No, it's not. You don't have the equipment or experience that a professional restaurant has. You THINK you do, but you don't.

So true! I learned that when I went to The Black Dog Tavern in Marthaʻs Vineyard. Not worth it!

Yes...and that's why the staff end up making little effort to actually keep up the quality of the experience. It's not surprising that it gets such a low rating.

It's not even that much money though all things considered. It's like what, 50-60 per person for a porterhouse for 4? That's very much in line with most other high end steakhouses in the city.

@@jayjacobl4667 but its not top end deliciousness

People think it’s the best because of their experience. If they hadn’t had any better, there’s nothing to compare it to

@Michael Lam keep a healthy active lifestyle, get your greens and meat is the least of your worries

Michael Lam that’s why he said he wants to be just like the 74 year old.

So you think he’s in good health?

@@kilohotel1202 dude can afford to eat there, I’m sure he’s doing fine.

that's right, keep your goals high

Objection hearsay

@@Snowy123 quiet, amber’s legal team!

As a NY’er a good amount of people from the nyc area have attachments to Peter Lugar’s being a special place, whether that be family memories, great nights out with friends etc. There’s a lot of sentimentality when it comes to Peter Lugars and that’s how it always has been. It’s a true NYC institution, not many of those left that are thriving as much as Peter Lugars. Personally that’s why I avoid. I have had many people tell me their experiences and I watch a lot of food videos in general including lots of Peter Lugar videos. The food is no doubt probably very tasty, but nothing out of this world, and it shouldn’t be. It’s the experience you’re paying for at Peter Lugars, I know people go nuts for some of their dishes like the creamed spinach, that thick bacon etc. All great items I’m sure, but what truly makes Peter Lugars special is their deep connection to NYC’ers which inevitably launched it into the NYC pretentious culinary scene limelight, when imo, that’s just not what Peter Lugars is about. Peter Lugars is a classy old school place you bring your family and friends for a classic NYC steakhouse experience. No, you’re not going to get the best steak or food in NYC but that is not the point of going. Quite honestly, if you’re going to Peter Lugars banking on the food being some mind altering experience, you’re going for the wrong reasons. I will say Peter Lugar only relatively recently (like past ~5-10 years) started being a NYC tourist “must try” type establishment, and no doubt that probably changed how Peter Lugars operates, and you can’t blame em. They went from being the place NYC locals went to for their fancy steak dinner, to a world recognized institution that gets loaded with tourists every day. Of course the people that remember Peter Lugars before it blew on the map will tightly hold onto their memories of how it used to be, keeping it with a good rep generally with locals. Though there’s also plenty of NYC’ers that believe it’s gotten too touristy and it went downhill. I’m not trying to say you shouldn’t try it if you get the chance, just don’t let the internet give you insanely high standards before you walk in. Enjoy the experience and don’t get upset if the food is not the best you ever had. Again, it’s all about that experience.

Jumping on the troll bandwagon.

@@Snowy123 lol 😆

That was funny lol

@@styldsteel1 👍

Although it has gotten softer and wrinklier.

@@cisium1184 Check, please!

the Mahi Mahi is good too 🙂

@jabron.destoroyah Sorry, what?

@jabron.destoroyah Totally! haha I don't even think they're bots too; but just a lot of sheep types that can't make critiques or life decisions authentic to them.

Most places are like that. the pricetag is just a self-justifying customers who feel like they're better.

Yup I agree I gave it a try ordered my steak for 3 and was completely underwhelmed for all the hype. For $230 I would expect A5 wagyu and have it melt in my mouth instantly what I got was a steak that probably costed no more than $20 and with the smallest amount of salt and butter.

Let's be real it got 0 stars cause of politics.

I don’t know where you are from, but no way you can get 12-16 ounces A5 wagyu in U.S for $79. You have to pay almost double that amount in SF.

@@Ken-rp7ii it’s probably about the same everywhere…serving size when I ate in nyc was about 5 ounces and that was $150 💸💸💸

Uninterested and unfriendly staff is normal for NYC dining places

It doesn't make it right though.

Go to Hawksmoor

Been there twice its a chain but I've yet to have a better steak than vic and Anthony's best porkchop perrys

For that price you already get high quality wagyu cooked to perfection with excellent service in Japan.

God Bless can I come over Sunday....

@@danielueblacker9118 Anytime my friend!

Nobody cares about you or your life. Just do you and keep things to yourself.

I agree. However when I visited Japan I was blown away. I don’t think it was even wagyu or Kobe beef. It was probably some other high end cuts. After eating steak in Japan, I stopped going to American steak houses.

I cannot get a grill hot enough at home. A top end steak house with some liquor is why I keep turning up for work.

Luger.

This makes sense. The bar has been raised, Luger's has remained flat.

@@depannist well i mean its seems everybody know the secrets of steak now, dry age

@vasantos2171......no, what's hard to find in New York City is an establishment that doesn't have a roach or rat infestation ! Any exterminator that works in the city will tell you, NO place is immune from the plague of vermin and insects !

a steak is a steak you can get a good steak at a longhorn

Daniel Ly Why they don’t serve dogs

@@1alsaidi319 yes you could never eat there. bot.

@@1alsaidi319 shut up fuckboi

Taco Bell doesn't charge over $100 per person though. Just for the record, I've never been to Peter Luger and I can't say if the review is right or not. But I can definitely say that I'm a lot more critical of meals that cost me $100+ than I am of meals that cost less than $5.

@@quintonhoffert6526 well at Peter Luger's you're eating actual meat. At Taco Bell you're eating 5% meat, 95% garbage disguised as meat

@@Mikedl29 not true. It may not be high quality meat, but it is 100% meat.

a zero according to the new york times, could be poor, fair, or satisfactory. "What the Stars Mean: Ratings range from zero to four stars. Zero is poor, fair or satisfactory. One star, good. Two stars, very good. Three stars, excellent. Four stars, extraordinary."

@@Mikedl29 the healthiest fast food chain is taco bell

I believe in good kale AND meat

Michael Martinez Yes, that’s why they have so many steak houses.

Hipsters sucks they destroy every culture they infest, like the food culture lmao.

Meat is trash

Infected more like infested and the sad thing is most aren't even from NYC yet have so much to say

Any steak in NYC worth eating is minimum $58. Lugers price is essentially right on par with any other steakhouse in NYC.

I think those are inflated prices too. “Market price” = Price fixing. I did have a very expensive porterhouse at Peter Luggers. The food and service was very nice, but I wouldn’t call it great. Sorry.

Sounds like one of those places you go to impress someone. We have a steakhouse like that here. Way overpriced , food is good but not BETTER then other steakhouses .

i think they have a loyal customer base and they like lugers because it's probably not super seasoned and it's the same it's always been. lot of people in the north east and canada hate food with seasoning.

atl_1ne. Ya I think that’s basically it.

joe k i agree. My big green egg performs just as good

Absolutely agree; I used to go to steak houses a lot but now I cook my own.

I totally agree!!

could not agree more!

Right? If I'm spending a lot of money going out, might as well get something I can't do/impractical to do at home.

@Jom Jamesit appears to be the future, meat eaters are the new smokers, you work it out bc I can't.

@JC Denton i swear some of these guys look at us like we are the reincarnation of jeffrey dahmer.

crazy is a moron - read the review.

They actually made quite a few valid points concerning the touristy vibe. However 0 stars is bonkers.

JC Denton discrimination against minorities has also brought us where we are. I mean eat as much meat as you like but just because something has been done for a long time doesn’t mean that it’s morally justified

It says a lot that nobody cares about a "famous online" critic but Peter Luger's is still a name of its own, huh

I had a rib eye at Longhorn, and it amazed me. I couldn't figure out how they did it so well for the price.

Peter Booth i literally just said this in my comment place is overrated

You’ve never even been, classic loser troll

Maybe so, but zero stars sounds like this critic was trying to be edgy and looking for attention. Controversy for clicks.

Been going to Luger's for 40 years and the steaks are out of this world. The service is among the best restaurants in America. Nothing in your post has any truth to it at all. What, were you fired from there, or are you just a liberal?

@@AfroGaz71 The Times doesn't just give out stars willy-nilly. There is a maximum of four stars and a restaurant has to be really good (for its price point) to get one star.

Pay less than half of that and take her to a hibachi grill restaurant. Most women don’t care for high priced steak

$300 for a steak? Seriously? Not only is that an insane amount for most people to spend on a single steak (or even two), if a woman needs to be impressed that much, she isn't worth it.

Marketing to suckers. Like Budweiser.

Of course..time is the benchmark of quality

Yes but a cash only business???

What was fancy 130 years ago just isn't good enough to justify those prices anymore. You go there and spend $18 for sliced tomato and onion "salad". No thanks.

@@JohnVC no. But you’ll go stop $10 at McDonald’s for $1.25 worth of food and a drink🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️and it’s not even worth that taste wise

thinking Pete Wells is a hipster LEL

Pete Wells is not a hipster lol

Sadly it's a steak house that's stuck so far in the past they don't know it. It's like that great restaurant that your great grandparents just loved you loved it made you just feel warm inside for blast from the past. It's old tactics of cooking, old ways food runner's, and now just dated bad food, that's over priced but hey grandparents still can gum it just fine.

What rules

what are the rules? I don't get it. Is that some kind of NY hipster slang?

Snowflake may have been melting due to the heat.

And a staff with integrity I might add.

You probably have a taste issue. I’ve eaten at so many steakhouses around the world. Peter Luger is always the best. Nursur et sucked

Their dry age process comes out better than Wolfgang’s, quality meats, literally any other place in NYC the broiler makes a huge difference.

@@marcopugliese5946 That makes the critic, myself and some others quite a few.

@@marcopugliese5946nah. Delmonico's is better by far. Luger keeps on insisting on their porterhouse which is a cut that cannot be cooked consistently due to their broiling process. It's sometime a hit and others a miss especially the NY strip section. And frankly all of them pale in comparison to well prepared A5 Matsusaka.

*Chappelle

James Anderson gj on the correction. You must be a vegan

no smith. This is one of those times the critic wasn’t lying. The sides are all horrible, like red lobster Olive Garden horrible. Most of their steaks are actually just not good and their $100 porter is overpriced and it’s just not cooked consistently as a good steak should.

I’m so tired of hearing the rotten tomatoes Dave Chapelle thing. Rotten tomatoes doesn’t give a score it’s just a site that accumulates critical reviews if the first critic posted gave it anything less than 50% that counts as 100% rotten 0% fresh. It had a 0% rating for one day

your analogies are really dumb. or maybe the critic is a steak lover who knows what a good steak is?

Who told you?

@@itsfree2639 They did a 10 page fold on it.

Lead laced

Juggernaut 333 Dump Trump

@@dabearcub No. Dump YOU with your libtard trolling. Take your horseshit elsewhere, twit.

Even if it is, if people want to eat at it, it'll survive.

It is . You can definently judge restaurants book by its cover

Even if it is overrated, you think it should get a zero? at least a 2 as they have people who think it is good enough to be repeat customers.

I went a few years ago and it was one of the best steaks I've ever had in my life

@@lazzyJames I never said it should get a 0. Just doesn't look that great.

Times restaurant reviews are for people who read them regularly and understand them. Most restaurants in New York that serve perfectly serviceable meals and have steady clienteles do not get any stars from the Times. Even 1 star means a place is special.

You clearly don't seem to understand.

I can honestly agree with this even while not having any interest in steak house cuisine whatsoever. And on The Times? Absolute trash across the board.

You know, and I think that I can speak for everyone, if you go to Peter Luger s expect a kick in the balls. The place is a joke.

@@superfly3990 well, I can confidently speak for myself and it would be an absolute joke for me to spend any money at Peter Luger. No way. Fine dining in my opinion is on its way out if not already dead and steakhouse cuisine is certainly done. I'm not trying to insult anyone or any concept at all.... just offering my adult, lifetime service industry professional opinion. I wish everyone the best no matter and if we can afford the product, by all means we should give it a go at least once.

Michael Obrien : the Luger family sold out to the Formans in 1950 who have been running it since.

Gerald Brienza it’s a joke. Peter died in 1941.

Yeah, good one.

Mighty Boosh been there many times over 25 years...experience...and only imho.

@@romanmaxica7816 Cool,you can still just not go there.

@G yeah. Ok. 🤣

you are funny lol

After lockdown if I’m able to come visit from Cali I’ll buy you a steak!

@@Charsi_Escobar Sounds good to me.😉

how?

@@luxmberg5434 Dissing the best steakhouse

they probably didnt have enough vegan options

@@yixnorb5971 best is subjective. Most people I know appear to have never had really good food or great particular kinds of food (like steak). Cooking methods have improved drastically over the years and some places are sticking to the old or bad ways.

I wish there was thumbs up 👍🏼 ^2 option on your comment 😂

beef sliders. i get it

The place has been open since the 1800s . when was their "prime" anyway ? If its been open that long then people liek it who cares

@@rbeck3200tb40 I was calling out a pun. Prime is also a grade of beef.

"'Past it's prime.'" I can't let it slide either; it's "past its prime," not "past it's prime." "It's" is a contraction of "it is," and "past it is time" makes no sense. I don't know why so many people have trouble with the apostrophe-s, but if people NEVER used it they'd be right more often than they'd be wrong. Just remember, in cases like this, that you don't write "hi's" (it's "his") so don't write "it's" as a pronoun.

@@seikibrian8641 ok boomer.

yup stuck in their ways

He was wrong. Look at Rolex.

Its because you paid so much, you tricked yourself, but to each their own 👍

@@garyhorvath2957 How did I trick myself? I grill my own steaks all the time and know how to very well and they are delicious. But they are not the same as Peter Luger’s. It was a very rare special occasion meal. Let me ask, have you ever eaten there?

You should try some better steakhouses. Peter Luger’s is pretty below average

@@bertspro What are some better steakhouses?

The McAdams Minute! I’m in Maryland so you’re not likely to have the occasion to go to my favorites, but off the top of my head, Lewnes’ Steakhouse in Annapolis, MD, Rare in DC, any Smith and Wollensky, Palm, or Capital Grille, Nero’s in Las Vegas are all better than what I experienced at Peter Luger. I recall the steak I was served at PL was just not very appetizing. The color gradient went from grey on the outside to purplish grey inside, and there were globs of fat hanging off it. All in all it was a mediocre quality cut of meat compared to other prime steakhouses. The sides were also lackluster.

its salt. No apostrophe.

Keep coping 😂 if its iconic or old school it has to at least taste good LOL

Critiquing is not a one-off process. You need to go back over time to make sure that what is good is not just a fluke, and what is bad really is always bad.

Billy Poppins that was my first thought! It could very well be just that.

Ryan Hampton 🤷🏻‍♂️

agreed 100%

It’s free ad for the restaurant, I’ve never heard of it, but Now I want to give it a try

Tamer 1 lol I went there once (Smith and Wolenski) and I hated it. Mostly I didn’t like the old , unfriendly waters. Food was ok.

Plenty of people young and old love this place. The line won't even flinch because of the review or your comment. Yes i like this place and make it my mission to eat there every time i visit the east coast. The salad is average, i don't eat the fries, but the steak is one fo the best in NYC - plenty of NYC restaurant with top quality steaks that is on par with Lugers but so far none has beaten in my opinion.

Me and all my friends have loved peter Luger since we were 13 years old! And we are from Florida! Every time I go to New York I have dinner at Lugers.

Exactly. Not hard to do as good or better at home anymore

And it will suck. You are not a chef.

Notice everone is talking price