Juicy steaks are being prepared over hot coals in a Hibachi barbecue in a backyard in New York in this file photo. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos068125
Okay, vegetarians need not go any further. This week’s blog is all about meat. Mostly steak houses but it’ll venture off into other carnivorous food.
The Peter Luger Steak House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York is seen on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. The classic American steakhouse, which is a family run business which originally opened in 1887, has recently been voted the best steakhouse in the United States by a panel of chefs and food critics put together by the USA Today newspaper. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos070559
Peter Luger Steakhouse in Williamsburg Brooklyn has just been voted the number one steakhouse in the United States by an esteemed panel of judges. The place has been around since 1883 with only one change of ownership in 1950. What used to be a real backwater in Brooklyn is now an up and coming neighborhood. We remember when you didn’t want to walk around there but the restaurant stuck it through, it’s still there and bringing in hundreds of diners a week for their classic steaks (although they serve fish also now).
A Breton tote bag seen at Marlow & Daughters butcher shop in New York in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on February 14, 2011. The bags are designed by Kate Huling, wife of Andrew Tarlow, a partner of Marlow & Sons restaurant. The bags are made from the same local grass-fed cows and pigs that are served at Marlow & Sons eatery and prepared at Marlow & Daughters butcher shop. Tarlow and his partner Mark Firth also own Diner and Roman’s restaurants in Brooklyn. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos059539
Roughly across the street from Luger is the butcher shop of Marlow & Daughters (their restaurant is Marlow & Sons). They’re not so classic as Luger and are an example of the hipster Williamsburg neighborhood. As an example, they sell local grass fed beef and pork and if you like their meat, you can get a hand bag made from the same animal you ate (or at least its relative). Quite a difference from the old-style Peter Luger.
Sweet and savory pie lovers travel to West Midtown in New York to celebrate Australia Day, Thursday, January 26, 2012, at the newly opened Australian bakery chain, Pie Face. The Aussie store offers an assortment of Australian delicacies akin to New York street food, they come in a handheld portable pie pack and the savories are filled with steak, mushroom, chicken and more. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos067276
We usually think of pies as sweet. Not so to Pie Face, an Australian invader that has landed in Midtown. The wildly popular store sells an assortment of savory pies, a novelty still in New York, and one of their most popular is…….you guessed it……..steak!
Patrons of the Gaucho Steak Company restaurant in the NYC neighborhood of Clinton dine on Argentine beef on July 20, 2007. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos031972
Just as Peter Luger is the quintessential New York steakhouse, we’re not the only ones who enjoy a good hunk of meat. In the Argentine, there are cowboys and cows and grasslands and in New York there’s the Gaucho Steak Company. A South American themed restaurant chefed by the popular Alex Garcia. so maybe we should have named this blog “Around the World in Steak”. From New York to Australia to Argentina, without leaving the city.
Richard Levine and Frances Roberts, of Levine Roberts Photography, are a husband and wife team of photographers covering politics, environmental issues, the economy, business, and social and cultural issues in the Big Apple. See more photos from their collection on Newscom.
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