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Vegas, baby! Peter Luger is coming to Caesars Palace
Peter Luger, the legendary Brooklyn steakhouse, is opening its first restaurant outside of New York
Strap on the sky-high heels and bejeweled headpieces. It’s time for some strip on the Strip: Peter Luger is heading west. The legendary Brooklyn steakhouse is opening in Las Vegas, its first U.S. restaurant located outside of New York State.
Scheduled to open by the end of the year, the new location will be on the Las Vegas Strip in Caesars Palace, where the chain promises it will have the “same menu, the same ambiance and—most important—the same quality beef” as its original Williamsburg location, which turns 135-years-old this year.
Meat 🥩 you at #PeterLuger Steak House! We are thrilled to announce the legendary New York Steak House is coming to the Palace at the end of 2022.
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— Caesars Palace (@CaesarsPalace) January 10, 2022
That means tourists and the brave New Yorkers that venture to Las Vegas will be treated to to its dry-aged sizzling steaks the size of a human head, thick-cut bacon and mediocre cocktails. Rude service not guaranteed, but probably to be expected.
“With its notoriously gruff, bow-tied waitstaff, old-world charm, and on-site dry-aging of legendary USDA-Prime steaks, dining at Peter Luger has become a culinary rite of passage,” a press release said. Peter Luger has earned itself one Michelin star and consistently ranks as one of New York City’s top-rated Zagat steakhouses, though the New York Times seems to think it’s resting on its significant laurels.
Besides its South Williamsburg location, Peter Luger has two other restaurants including one in Great Neck, which opened in 1968, and a recently opened location in Tokyo. At Caesar’s, Peter Luger is taking over a location that had previously been occupied by a New York export: Rao’s Las Vegas, which did not have luck in that spot.
Las Vegas is littered with New York establishments, including Brooklyn Bowl (also at Caesar’s), Old Homestead, Carbone and Grimaldi’s. To be sure, not all of them arrive out west with the same quality they’re known for here (we’re looking at you, DiFara’s).
