If you’ve eaten at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Meatpacking District, and even if you haven’t, you’re probably acquainted with its legendary high prices. I say “legendary” because the prices are quite obviously designed to raise eyebrows. In 2017, for example, the restaurant offered a Thanksgiving dinner priced at $76,000 a person. In 2019, the per-person cost topped out at $180,000.
This Thanksgiving, the restaurant makes no bones about the amount it will be charging for a side of cranberry sauce, which it boasts on social media is “The World’s Most Expensive” at “$195 a dollop!”
What accounts for the expense? The dish will be made with Fladgate Scion Vintage Port, which sells for $4,400 a bottle, 24K gold flakes, white truffle shavings ($1,500 a pound), and Manuka honey from New Zealand ($100 a pound).
Note that the recipe doesn’t mention cranberries. I wonder how much those will cost.
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