It’s my birthday today and I wanna go to Peter Luger’s. This is one of New York’s oldest steakhouses, and proudly it resides in Brooklyn, underneath the Williamsburg bridge.  They are famous for serving the porterhouse. Also known as the short loin, the porterhouse is like a T-bone, which is cut closer to the front and includes less fillet. The porterhouse is cut from the rear and comes with the strip loin and a larger fillet. The USDA says that the fillet must be at least 1.25 inches thick in order to be called a porterhouse.

At Peter Luger, operating since 1887, the meat is all Prime, and after selected for proper marbling, it sits in a cold air circulated cooler to age. Did I mention that Peter Luger has been named the best steakhouse in New York by Zagat for 26 years running?

Needless to say I’m going to feast. Get my ma to buy a nice bottle of red, some creamed spinach and baked potato, Caesar salad with extra anchovy and garlic, and maybe a shrimp cocktail if I’m really hungry.

I love birthdays. No one can tell me what to do. I mean, they can, but I get what I want.