Peter Luger Steak House Tokyo

02What to order

• Steak for TwoThe T-bone for the table: ¥38,000 for two, ¥52,500 for three, ¥68,000 for four on the August 2026 menu, tax included, 10 % service extra. Prices move weekly.
• Single Steak (sirloin) or Rib SteakFor one: the sirloin is ¥19,000; the Rib Steak is ¥28,000.
• Bacon, potatoes, spinachLuger's thick-cut bacon at ¥1,900 a slice; German Fried Potatoes and Creamed Spinach at ¥2,000 each.
• Luger BurgerAged Prime beef with fresh lean beef and no binder; in the dining room at lunch only, all day at the ground-floor bar.

03The beef

The animal arrives as a grade rather than a breed: USDA Prime, selected by the criteria of the New York family and flown in chilled from the United States every week. Dry-ageing happens in the house's own room, under controlled humidity and temperature, for a minimum of 28 days; the same page also says more than a month. The room is on the ground floor, measures 30 tsubo and holds 10 tonnes of beef. No breed or farm is published. The number: 28 days, minimum.

04The fire

The steak is salted, browned under a broiler at 500 °C, sliced, and returned to the broiler with butter, then served on a plate heated to more than 100 °C. The house calls the juices spooned over the meat 'vitamin'.

05The story

Peter Luger opened in Brooklyn in 1887 as Carl Luger's Cafe, Billiards and Bowling Alley, with Peter Luger as owner and his nephew Carl in the kitchen. After Peter Luger's death in 1941 and a crisis in the late 1940s, Sol Forman bought the restaurant at auction. The house says it had never opened outside Brooklyn, not even in Manhattan, before Tokyo: Daniel and David, of the owning family, first came to Japan in 2016 and chose Wonder Table, already the operator of Lawry's The Prime Rib in Japan, as licence partner. Ebisu opened on 14 October 2021.

06The practical

The restaurant is a three-storey brick building beside Ebisu Garden Place: a 35-seat bar and private rooms on the ground floor, the main dining room with an open kitchen on the second, a balcony floor above; 265 seats in all. It opens daily, 11:00–15:00 and 17:00–23:00, last food order 21:30, and closes over the year end. Payment is cashless only, service is 10 %, there is no dress code, and booking is online through TableCheck.

Address

4-19-19 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Phone

+81 3-6277-4336

Website

peterluger.co.jp

Directions

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