Thanksgiving Dinner by Old Homestead Steakhouse NYC – Robb Report

Thanksgiving dinner is a meal rooted in tradition. Across the country, these traditions vary, of course. In the south, the turkey can be fried. In the Northeast, it would not be inappropriate to find oysters in the stuffing. And in the Midwest, get ready for crispy fried onions, mushroom cream and green beans in a casserole.

In the oldest American steakhouse in operation, a new tradition is born. Old Homestead, which has been burning beef in western Manhattan since the end of the American Civil War, insisted on creating the most ridiculously extravagant and expensive Thanksgiving dinner in recent years. In 2017, this represented a meal of $ 76,000 with a dipping infused with Louis XIII cognac and a mashed potato covered with caviar.

This year, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the restaurant, it has helped create a meal of 150,000 US dollars for the rich New Yorkers who do not want to eat at home, but who are still magnanimous enough to give their private chef a day off.

All the usual attractions of a restaurant are trying to inflate the price of a meal: gold leaf on turkey, caviar on squash and $ 2,500 of white truffles in stuffing. There were also creative ideas to tip the scales, including making the oyster mignonette with Opus One, which saves $ 35 per ounce. olive oil to sprinkle the turkey and use a $ 75 leavened bread roll per UK bread to make the stuffing.

However, despite the use of refined foods from around the world to raise the meal bill for 12 people, there is an artificial inflation that occurs here with the price. Dinner is accompanied by tickets for a Billy Joel concert, dance lessons at the Fred Astaire studio, a carriage ride in Central Park and a viewing station for Macy's Thanksgiving Day. Parade and seats at a Dance with the stars shooting. Oh, and the keys to a Maserati Levante 2018 are stuffed into the turkey. Honestly, one may wonder if there is still honor in this game at ridiculous prices.

We will move to the purchase of the package this year. But if we thought about it, we would tell them to keep the Billy Joel tickets and negotiate the price up to $ 149,950.