Most expensive Thanksgiving dinner from Old Homestead Steakhouse NYC – Robb Report

Thanksgiving dinner is a meal rooted in tradition. Of course, these traditions vary widely throughout the country. To the south, the turkey can be deep-frozen. Up in the northeast, it would not be out to find oysters in the fill. And in the Midwest, get ready for some crispy fried onion, cream with mushroom soup and green beans, all in one pot.

At America's oldest, continuously operational steakhouse, a new tradition has arisen. Old Homestead, which has searing steak on Manhattan's west side since the aftermath of the Civil War, has made a point of creating the most ludicrously extravagant and expensive Thanksgiving dinner every year in recent years. By 2017 it meant a $ 76,000 meal with dipping sauce infused with Louis XIII brandy and mashed potatoes covered with caviar.

This year in honor of the restaurant's 1[ads1]50th anniversary, it has created a $ 150,000 meal for rich New Yorkers who do not want to eat at home, but still great enough to give a private chef a day off.

There are all the usual trappings of a restaurant trying to blow up the price of a meal: Turkey turkey, caviar on the squash, and $ 2,500 per lb white truffles in the filling. There were also some creative blossoms to tip the scales, including making oyster mignonette with the Opus One, finding a $ 35 per oz. olive oil to bake the turkey, and spend a $ 75 per loaf of sourdough bread from the UK to build the filling.

However, despite using expensive delicacies from around the world to push the bill for 12-person meal clouds, there is some artificial inflation that happens with the price here. Among other things that are not a turkey party, dinner with tickets to a Billy Joel concert, dance selections at the Fred Astaire studio, a Central Park horse carriage, access to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade display stand, and seats on and Dancing with the Stars filming. Oh, and the keys to a 2018 Maserati Levante are filled in Turkey. Honestly, it makes you wonder if there's any honor left in the absurdly priced, gimmick-meal game.

We will continue to purchase this package this year. But if we considered it, we would tell them to hold the Billy Joel tickets and negotiate the price down to $ 149,950.