BREAKING- PETER LUGER POPULAR WITH PUBLICISTS 50 YEARS AGO

As has been previously noted on this blog, we were treated us to an absolutely delicious lunch at Peter Luger last week. I don't have much to add to the serifs that have already been devoted to the subject except this little tidbit, that struck me given our company's business.

Hanging in the foyer of the restaurant was a reprint of Stanton Delaplane's "Postcard From New York" column in the San Francisco Chronicle, dated 1953, meaning it probably was filed to the SF Chron offices from New York literally as a postcard. The relevant passage reads "Peter Luger's is famous for being frequented by news-paper people and press agents- and for a very curious reason. The steaks are so excellent that the press agents and New York columnists have agreed not to let it get in the press lest you and I fall upon this retreat and crowd it."

I guess the secret is out now, but one thing that hasn't changed is the food- his description of the meal he had during the Eisenhower administration sounded EXACTLY like what we had for lunch that day.