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Carnivores couldn’t steak the wait for a table.
So after 132 years in business, NYC’s legendary Peter Luger is now accepting online reservations for its Williamsburg location.
Previously, hopeful patrons had to call the eatery for a seat — and some felt they were spending “a little too long on the phone,” as Daniel Turtel, the fourth-generation owner of the restaurant, tells AM New York.
“We were getting 6,000 calls for reservations every day, which is an insane number,” says Turtel, 28.
Now, meat-lovers can book a table at the cash-only porterhouse paradise — which The Post’s food critic, Steve Cuozzo, counts among his top five favorite steakhouses in the city — on Peter Luger’s website, via Resy. (Note that the change is only for PL’s Brooklyn location, not its Great Neck, Long Island, outpost.)
While steak fans and tourists will certainly benefit from the move, it’s an interesting one for a restaurant The Post has previously described as “not fashionable, nor contemporary . . . not convenient,” with service that is “infamously cantankerous.”
To the untrained eye, that may read like smack-talk; to New Yorkers, it’s more like a love poem, especially since the food is superb. Might this push toward modernity rob the restaurant of its old-school charm?
Turtel — a millennial, it’s worth noting — doesn’t think so.
For hangry customers, “The wait time on the phone was not such a charming aspect,” he says.
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