Peter Luger’s iconic steakhouse receives no star review from NY Times

[Gefn]

Peter Luger's manager says its steaks are still 'the best you can eat' after scathing zero-star review from The New York Times



Peter Luger Steak House received a scathing zero-star review in The New York Times on Tuesday.

Pete Wells' review of the iconic 132-year-old Brooklyn restaurant has since gone viral on Twitter.

Wells wrote that the restaurant's shrimp cocktail "tasted like cold latex," that his fries were "mealy and bland," and that the Caesar salad was "so drippy," with croutons "always straight out of the bag."

David Berson, Peter Luger's general manager and the great-grandson of its founders, told Insider: "We know who we are and have always been. The best steak you can eat. Not the latest kale salad."

If you search on Google for the most famous restaurants in New York City, your first result will probably be Katz's Delicatessen. The second is likely to be Peter Luger Steak House.

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-luger-zero-star-review-new-york-times-2019-10

[Gefn]

This story is blowing up all over NYC. I’ve never eaten there but my family has and they informed me the steaks were “divine”.


Ive heard of a one star review  but no stars? I know Michelin removes stars. Although I might agree with this critic about Guy Fieri’s food.

[mountaineer]

I'd probably agree with the critique of Guy Ferry, too - my absolute least favorite celebrity "chef" (and calling him that is a stretch).
Ferry is his real name, by the way.

[Gefn]

I'd probably agree with the critique of Guy Ferry, too - my absolute least favorite celebrity "chef" (and calling him that is a stretch).
Ferry is his real name, by the way.

I didn’t know that. Great piece of trivia!
Thanks @mountaineer

[PeteS in CA]

...
Ferry is his real name, by the way.

There's more to it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fieri

Fieri was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Penelope Anne (née Price) and Lewis James Ferry. He grew up in Ferndale in rural Humboldt County, California. During high school, he was a foreign exchange student in France, where he developed his interest in food and cooking. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent; Fieri changed his surname, Ferry, back to his family's original surname, Fieri, when he got married in 1995, in order to honor his immigrant great-grandfather, Giuseppe Fieri.

Immigrants Anglicizing their family names is not rare, and when GF or GGF arrived in the US (possibly in the 1920s, when many Italians fled Mussolini? e.g. the man my father's sister married ...), Italian immigrants may not not have been welcomed very warmly. Donald Trump's original family name was "Drumpf" ... Bank of America was not originally named that ...