Old Homestead Steakhouse
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{{Infobox Restaurant
| name = Old Homestead Steakhouse
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| image = File:Old Homestead Steak House (Manhattan, New York) 001.jpg
| image_caption = Restaurant exterior in 2012
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| established = {{Start date and age|1868}}
| current-owner = Greg Sherry
Marc Sherry
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| food-type = Steakhouse
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| street-address = 56 9th Ave
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| city = Manhattan, New York City
| postcode = 10011
| country = United States
| website = {{URL|https://www.theoldhomesteadsteakhouse.com/|Old Homestead Steakhouse}}
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The Old Homestead Steakhouse is a steakhouse established in 1868 whose flagship location is in Manhattan, New York City. The restaurant is the oldest continuously operating steakhouse in the United States.{{Cite web |title=A Rare History of the Steakhouse |author=Butler, Stephanie |work=HISTORY |date=October 24, 2014 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |url=https://www.history.com/news/a-rare-history-of-the-steakhouse}}{{cite book |first=Laura |last=Brienza |title=New York's Historic Restaurants, Inns & Taverns: Storied Establishments from the City to the Hudson Valley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDT3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 |date=September 1, 2016 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |isbn=978-1-4930-2435-3 |pages=84–}} Staff at the Old Homestead Steakhouse are represented by UNITE HERE Local 100.{{cite web |title=Eat Union – UNITE HERE Local 100 |website=UNITE HERE Local 100 |url=https://www.unitehere100.org/eat-union/ |access-date=August 19, 2024}}
History
In 1868, a German family established the Old Homestead Steakhouse, then called Tidewater Trading Post, in Manhattan's Meatpacking District on West 14th and 9th Avenue. In the 1940s long-time employee and former dishwasher, Harry Sherry, purchased the restaurant. Sherry later passed the legacy down to his family. The steakhouse is now owned and operated by his grandsons Greg and Marc Sherry.{{Cite web |author=Goodman |first=Daniel |author2=Lopez |first2=Linette |author-link2=Linette Lopez |date=March 13, 2013 |title=Step Inside The Place Where The Most Expensive Meat In NYC Is Served |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/old-homestead-steakhouse-2013-3 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |work=Business Insider}}
In the mid-20th century, a Texan who enjoyed the restaurant told Harry Sherry that he would send him a cow. Two weeks later a statue of a cow was delivered and has since become a signature symbol of the Old Homestead.{{Cite web |title=NYC's oldest restaurants will take you back in time |author=Kral, Georgia |author2=Levy, Nicole |work=am New York |date=July 6, 2018 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |url=https://www.amny.com/eat-and-drink/old-restaurants-nyc-1.19634651}}
In the 1990s, the restaurant was the first in the United States to introduce Wagyu beef from Japan. In order to be certified, Greg and Marc had to work with Japanese farmers to bring their facilities up to the health code standard in America.
Two additional locations were opened with one in Atlantic City at the Borgata and the other in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. The Atlantic City location was named best restaurant in Atlantic City by Zagat's "2012 America's Top Restaurants".{{Cite web |title=Old Homestead Steak House At Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Named Atlantic City's Top Restaurant |work=Hamptons.com |date=October 31, 2011 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |url=https://www.hamptons.com/Food-And-Wine/Main-Articles/15861/Old-Homestead-Steak-House-At-Borgata-Hotel-Casino.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127194133/https://www.hamptons.com/Food-And-Wine/Main-Articles/15861/Old-Homestead-Steak-House-At-Borgata-Hotel-Casino.html#.W_2d8i-l1pQ |archive-date=November 27, 2018}} In 2023, it was announced the Caesars Palace location would be closing and would be replaced by a Bobby Flay restaurant.{{cite web |last=Karel |first=Janna |title=One of Las Vegas's Best Steakhouses Is Getting Replaced by a Bobby Flay Restaurant |website=Eater Vegas |date=May 16, 2023 |url=https://vegas.eater.com/2023/5/16/23726590/las-vegas-best-steakhouse-closed-replaced-new-bobby-flay-restaurant |access-date=August 19, 2024}}
The Old Homestead is the oldest continuously operating steakhouse in the United States and is senior to Keens (founded 1885) and Peter Luger Steak House (founded 1887).
Ratings
In 1994, Ruth Reichl of The New York Times stated that "for sheer quantity, nothing can beat the Homestead". Reichl described the porterhouse for two as "thicker than the Manhattan phone book and twice as heavy".{{Cite web |title=For Red Meat and a Sense of History |last=Reichl |first=Ruth |work=The New York Times |date=January 21, 1994 |access-date=November 27, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/21/arts/for-red-meat-and-a-sense-of-history.html}}
In popular culture
The steakhouse has made appearances in multiple television shows, including a 1995 episode of Seinfeld and a 2004 episode of the HBO series The Sopranos.{{Cite web |title=Seinfeld 'The Wink' Filming & production |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697812/locations/ |access-date=November 5, 2024 |website=IMDb}}{{Cite web |title=Sopranos filming location - Old Homestead Steakhouse |url=https://www.sopranos-locations.com/locations/old-homestead-steakhouse/ |access-date=November 5, 2024 |website=The Sopranos Location Guide}}
See also
References
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External links
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Category:1868 establishments in New York (state)
Category:Restaurants established in 1868