8.09.2006
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The chefs at the Old Homestead Steak House in the Boca Raton Resort & Club believe in the power of three. The Florida restaurant, which opened in June, introduced its Tri-Beef burger later that month and gave it a triple-digit $100 price tag. (The Old Homestead’s flagship is in Manhattan, and it maintains another outlet in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J.)The 22-ounce, 2 ½-inch-tall burger combines Japanese Kobe, American prime-grade, and Argentinean beefs, but the ratios of those meats are a secret, according to resort spokesman Jon Kaye, who says “it took a long time to develop the mixture.” The chef pan-sears the patty in grapeseed oil, finishes it in a slow broiler on low heat, and then garnishes it with mushrooms, heirloom tomatoes, and microarugula greens. The restaurant serves the sandwich with a trio of condiments, truffle-spiked steak fries, and a glass of house champagne. After taxes and an 18 percent gratuity are added, the bill reaches $124.50; that total includes a $10 contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Kaye says the restaurant accepts phone orders of the burger, which it will ship overnight on ice to your home. —Sheila Gibson Stoodley
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