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This steak will take a bite out of your wallet.
A high-end steakhouse in the Meatpacking District has taken the price of beef to sizzling new heights by offering a 12-ounce cut of meat for a whopping $350.
The new steak dish at Old Homestead is so expensive because it is a rare cut of real Japanese Kobe beef, which had been banned for sale in the US until recently.
“It’s the most delicate, decadent beef in the world,” said restaurant co-owner Marc Sherry. “It’s like having July 4th in your mouth — there is an explosion of flavors.”
Although the Kobe cut is in a price range few but a hedge-fund king would like, Old Homestead has already had numerous customers ready to throw their money down to reserve the steaks.
“We have a waiting list of people who want to have this beef,” said Sherry. He said some people have offered several times the $350 price to get one of the first steaks.
Others are so hungry to sink their teeth into a slice of the costly cattle they are flying in from the West Coast and Chicago.
“It’s a food experience of orgasmic proportions — really,” Sherry says.
Genuine Japanese Kobe beef is so good because the cows are treated even better than the diners. They are rubbed down with straw three times a day and fed a diet of soybeans, rice and grain. The cows fed beer from a baby bottle to increase their appetites, a restaurant spokesman said.