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Wolfgang's Steakhouse (Park Avenue)
For a porterhouse dinner under tiled vaults from 1913: the first house of Wolfgang Zwiener, who spent four decades on the floor at Peter Luger.
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Why go
This is the steakhouse for the evening when the room matters as much as the steak, when you are bringing someone who will look up as well as down. The dining room is the old Della Robbia Bar of the Vanderbilt Hotel, built between 1910 and 1913, with shallow Guastavino vaults in pale tile and polychrome ceramics from Rookwood Pottery, and the city made it an interior landmark in 1994. The menu follows the Brooklyn school its founder knew from the inside: a porterhouse for two or more, thick Canadian bacon, German potatoes and creamed spinach, ordered for the table.
What to order
- Porterhouse for two or more
- Sizzling Canadian bacon
- Prime NY sirloin or rib eye
Not published: aging, fire, breed, price.
01What to order
- Porterhouse for two or moreUS$77.95 per person on the Park Avenue menu read in October 2026; the menu gives no weight.
- Sizzling Canadian baconExtra thick, by the slice, US$15.95; a starter to share while the steak cooks.
- Prime NY sirloin or rib eyeUS$77.95 and US$94.95 for those who prefer a steak of their own.
- Tomahawk steak, Cajun styleUS$175.95, the largest single cut on the menu.
- German potatoes and creamed spinachUS$19.95 each; sides are sized for the table.
- Apple strudel or key lime pieDesserts at US$16.95, to close a long dinner.
02The beef
The menu heads its steaks "Prime steaks & chops" and names a Prime NY sirloin, but gives no weights, grade label or aging days. In a 2018 interview about the group, Peter Zwiener, the founder's son and president of the company, described USDA Prime kept in aging boxes on the premises for up to 28 days, longer on request, and Angus and Black Angus cattle from selected ranches; that account is about the chain, not this house in particular.
03The fire
No source names the broiler or the fuel at Park Avenue.
04The story
Wolfgang Zwiener (1939–2025) spent more than 40 years as a headwaiter at Peter Luger before opening this house in 2004, with his son Peter, and the company says he built it on what he learned there. The chain counted about 35 locations worldwide by 2015, from New Jersey to Japan and South Korea; in New York it now lists Times Square, TriBeCa, Park Avenue and Broadway. Zwiener died in January 2025, at 85. The room itself is older: the Della Robbia Bar is the one part of the Vanderbilt Hotel's interior that survived a 1960s modernization, and the Friends of Terra Cotta campaigned for its protection.
05The practical
4 Park Avenue, at 33rd Street, Murray Hill. The group says it serves lunch and dinner seven days a week, holidays included; OpenTable lists lunch from 11:45 to 16:00 on weekdays and 12:00 to 16:00 at weekends, and dinner from 16:00 to 22:00 Monday to Thursday, to 22:30 on Friday and Saturday and to 21:30 on Sunday. Booking on OpenTable is the simple route; the group's central line is +1 212 925 0350.
- Address
- 4 Park Avenue, Murray Hill, New York, NY 10016
- Phone
- +1 212 889 3369
- Website
- wolfgangssteakhouse.net
- Directions
- Google Maps ↗
Who founded Wolfgang's Steakhouse?
Wolfgang Zwiener, a headwaiter at Peter Luger for more than 40 years, with his son Peter, in 2004 on Park Avenue.
Why is the Park Avenue room a landmark?
It is the former Della Robbia Bar of the Vanderbilt Hotel (1910–1913), with Guastavino vaults; New York designated it an interior landmark on April 5, 1994.
How much is the porterhouse at Wolfgang's Park Avenue?
US$77.95 per person, for two or more, on the menu read in October 2026.
Is the beef dry-aged at Wolfgang's?
The group's president described USDA Prime dry-aged on the premises for up to 28 days in 2018; the Park Avenue menu does not state it.
06Sources
wolfgangssteakhouse.net · en.wikipedia.org · opentable.com · en.wikipedia.org · untappedcities.com · philstar.com · wolfgangssteakhouse.net · opentable.com.au
Last verified Oct. 29, 2026.
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