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The media-propelled notion that Americans have turned from red meat to fake meat is a case of Park Slope talking to Park Slope — elites hilariously out of touch with the masses.
The recent Times article, for example, cited a 2019 Gallup poll where one-quarter of respondents claimed they ate less meat. But in restaurants, people’s true tastes are on display for all to see.
Big Apple steakhouses are thriving and adding locations. Wolfgang’s has grown from a single Manhattan location to five since 2004. In the past five years, Hawksmoor opened up shop here from London, Mastro’s from Beverly Hills, and Salt Bae’s Nusr-Et from Istanbul.
The most in-demand dishes include Carbone’s $85 veal parmigiana (which drew crowds for takeout during the 2020 indoor-dining ban) and Carne Mare’s $115 gorgonzola-cured wagyu striploin. A new place called Skirt Steak NYC in Chelsea sells nothing else and is packed all the time.
British steakhouse Hawksmoor opened a New York outpost (above) during the height of the pandemic. Even with its high-priced menu, the restaurant has proven a hit with both critics and diners.
New York steakhouses are thriving, including Nusr-Etm run by Nusret Gokce (aka Salt Bae), the social media-famous founder from Turkey.
Of course, the ban-the-beef movement is part of the ban-anything-that-tastes-good mindset that holds sway in woker-than-thou circles. Two years ago, the Conde Nast-owned Epicurious site harrumphed that, in the interest of “sustainability,” it would no longer carry new beef recipes. An editor’s note hinted that it expected others to follow. To date, no other comparable media organ has been stupid enough to do so.
The sale of foie gras will be banned altogether in the Big Apple as of Oct. 31. The goal is to spare ducks and geese the alleged misery of force-feeding. But the true purpose is to stick it to supposedly rich customers. By the same “cruelty” standard, sale of chickens and pork, which people of all income levels consume, should also be forbidden.
Meanwhile, Mark Pastore, president of Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors (which sells to places from Porter House to Shake Shack), told me his company’s red-meat sales “increase year after year by anywhere from 10-15 percent. I don’t see the demand dwindling anytime soon either anywhere.”
The people trying to remove meat from our diets, particularly beef, due to ‘Global Warming’ are the ones leading the charge for WW3 in Ukraine.
One wonders... do the headline writers even bother to read the article?
“Although US consumption of beef fell from about 80 pounds annually per capita in the 1970s and early ’80s to a low of 54 pounds in 2017, it’s steadily rebounded since then to 58.6 pounds in 2021.”
Rebounding to 3/4 the level of 40 years ago ain’t “more than ever.”
Wish I could afford beef.
I’ll have to settle for a double cheeseburger 🍔 from McDonald’s value menu.
So after it fell by a third it is now up a tenth—and they are claiming that it is more than ever?
Way to go, NYPost!
The vegans what you to think there’s a trend ,LOL
I’ve been craving it more, so i’m making it more.
Being a vegan is not a trend. It’s something our communist government keeps pushing because they want us stupid and sick.
Veganism is a new faddish religion. The people that embrace it are hypocrites of the highest order.
They cry about "the poor animals" but work the honey bees to death so they can have their almonds.
They want to kill off natural animal habitat to feed their soy addiction.
If we’re not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
I think some of it is the pro keto anti carb fad. I can’t wait to visit my first “Brazilian steakhouse” next week where they wheel trays of meats to the table. And my son when home from college on breaks eats nothing (really!) but Trader Joe’s $9.99/lb ribeye every night, 7 minutes per side on the grill.
lol
vegan trend?!
LMAO! only among the woke left trying to make a statement and feel special about themselves by dining themselves the best things in life.
Similar to those religious idiots who beat themselves with canes.
T Bone on the grill.
I have a conservative buddy who was vegan for years, for health reasons. Heavily into mixed martial arts. Recently went meat and feels on fire. TBH, his color and stamina is better too.
We grilled NY strips last night. Yum!
We ordered 1/4 of a beef. Steaks, roasts, ribs and burger of our reference. The cows are raised here and butchered, wrapped and frozen here. $4.99 per pound for the whole thing which is the same or less than a pound of burger at the grocery store. And the meat is tender and has (gasp) marbling. we could reduce the price a little more if we could store a half a beef.
When I want vegies i will buy vegies. When I want meat...I will buy meat. I love T-bones...
Pretty much I have stopped ordering chicken in any form at restaurants. Chik-fil-a is the exception, of course. I don’t go there much. Chicken breast has almost no flavor of its own.It gets its flavor from seasoning. Same with turkey. Pork is the next best thing, but I like to cook pork at home, not get it at restaurants, except at breakfast.
I am not a fan of seafood. Shrimp is no better than an insect, and fish gets stinky in a very short time, which I instinctively think is a sign of it being a bad food source.
I believe that we have a deal with the bovines. We keep their genetics going forever, and in exchange we eat some of them, and use their milk to drink with cookies or put on cereal, or make butter and yummy ice cream. It is a symbiotic relationship. Most bovines would die right away if we weren’t there to keep them alive.
I respect the sacrifice of the bovine species. I believe that if we have meat we should eat all of it, and what we don’t eat we should give to dogs. The dogs are actually a part of the understanding we have with the bovines.
There is no ‘vegan trend’...its the Lefty idiots doing a ‘vegan push’.....and given simple human nature in that most peeps hate to be forced or told to do something, its being rejected, wholeheartedly. Leave such as a personal choice, but as par, Lefties dont understand or even remotely fathom the idea of personal choice.....
Who would drop $300+ on a plate of bean curds?