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Why Wolfgang’s made the SteakMap list

Wolfgang Zwiener spent more than forty years as head waiter at Peter Luger before opening his own steakhouse in 2004. That is the entire pedigree in one sentence, and it explains everything about how this room operates.

He did not copy Luger so much as carry the method out the door with him: USDA Prime, aged in house, cut thick, served the way that school of New York steakhouse has served it for a century.

The aging room

Wolfgang’s dry-ages its USDA Prime beef 28 days in an on-site aging room, and the restaurant publishes the actual conditions it holds: 37–39°F at 78–82 percent humidity.

Those numbers are the whole craft. Too warm and the beef spoils rather than ages; too dry and it hardens into an unusable crust; too humid and you grow the wrong molds. Holding a locker in that narrow band for four weeks, on purpose, is what separates a real dry-aging program from a marketing line — and almost no restaurant will tell you its settings.

The TriBeCa room

This location is at 409 Greenwich Street in TriBeCa, which makes it the quieter of the New York rooms — a neighborhood dining room rather than a Midtown expense-account floor. If you want the Wolfgang’s steak without the theater-district crush, this is the address.

Prices

Wolfgang’s does not publish per-location pricing online, so SteakMap has no verified New York figures to quote. Expect top-tier Manhattan steakhouse rates, and note that the house cuts are built to be shared rather than ordered one per person.

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