Restaurant Review: Wolfgang's Steakhouse

4 Park Avenue

NY NY 10016

212-889-3369

If you're looking to eat fine steak, this is place to try. Taking the core principles from Peter Luger restaurants, Wolfgang has created an intimate and cozy environment for serving phenomenal steak (for one, two, three...and in our case, SEVEN). The menu is traditional to a steakhouse restaurant (canadian bacon appetizer, cream of spinach and sauteed mushroom sides). Other options include chilean sea bass and salmon but that would defeat the purpose of eating at a steakhouse.

We started out the meal with a bottle of merlot (Mondavi, 2005).

Here were our appetizers: A dozen oysters and a seafood platter filled with lobster, shrimp and lump crabmeat. YUMMY!

We ordered a few slices of Canadian bacon (which was supposedly as delicious as the ones served at Peter Luger's and Benjamin's Steakhouse).

Here was our main entree: MEAT MEAT MEAT! I would avoid using the Wolfgang steaksauce that was offered to us. It smelled like tomatoes and horseradish (similar to the seafood cocktail sauce used in the seafood appetizer). My friends said the steak tasted better without it!!

The side dishes: sauteed mushrooms and the cream of spinach. Both were extremely tasty.

Overall, this is a wonderful place to go for special occasions. You will notice that I didn't put any prices because everything is expensive. Bring your credit card and your empty stomaches. The service was top-notch as well. We had a small accident with the red wine spilling onto someone's sleeve....the waiter was kind enough to spend a few minutes dabbing the stains out with a soap-soaked napkin. It was a miracle!

We also ordered a third side dish called German potatoes. We didn't really know what that was except that it was a hashbrown of some sort. It was the worst dish we ordered. Essentially it was over-cooked (aka black) pieces of potatoes. Ugh. I don't know how people can eat it. However, we complained and we were given another dish (free, of course). So considering the exorbitant prices, we were pleased with their service.

After our huge meal, we were still able to enjoy some desserts. Two orders of creme brulee and sorbets!! It was a perfect way to end our meat-fest. Note: The creme brulee tasted even more delicious when dipped with the whipped cream.

And we also scored some useful after-dinner festivity locations from the waiter! We walked over a few blocks to Mercury bar to enjoy more good company and booze.