Chapter 274: Secret Menu
Yan Ling took Yan Yun to Delmonico's restaurant on Wall Street for dinner.
This restaurant was named by Yan Yun.
There are many food critic columns saying that the restaurant opened in 1837.
But in fact, the real history of this restaurant is ten years before that.
However, when it was founded in 1827, the name of the restaurant was Delmonico Brothers.
This is a typical American restaurant, and it is also the story of a pair of American brothers who made their fortune by opening a restaurant.
Because it was not a rich kid starting a business, this restaurant rented a house for a long time, and had to move from time to time.
Compared to the "pipe" steakhouse that Yan Yun went to when he first went to New York to find Qi Yi - Keens Steakhouse.
Yan Yun's choice of Delmonico's this time is a little more story-telling, and he knows how to do marketing better.
The restaurant's initial popularity was due to its delicious food and celebrities.
For example, in the late 19th century, it was run by the legendary chef Charles Ranhofer, who invented the eggs Benedict.
Another example is Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, who were regulars in restaurants in that era.
The restaurant was imitated by someone else, and because Delmonico is not a particularly rare name, it did not win an infringement lawsuit.
It's like Yao Ming telling a very famous ribbon company in Xiamen that Yao Ming Ribbon (the world's largest ribbon manufacturer) will not be supported.
The boss of the family is also called Yao Ming, and there is nothing infringing on the name of his company.
Delmonico's has witnessed many important moments in New York's history.
But no matter how important history is, it is not as important as what you eat.
The so-called typical American restaurant is actually not very distinctive.
Signature dish: steak.
Signature dish: Large.
In terms of the dishes on the menu, Delmonico's is not much different from the pipe restaurant.
As far as the "signature dish" steak goes, the steaks here aren't as good as Keens Steakhouse, which has been focusing on steaks since 1885.
But if you're going to be famous, Delmonico's should still be a street or two away from the pipe restaurant.
Just looking at the menu on offer, there's no way to understand why this restaurant has become a Wall Street favorite.
Location is certainly one of the key factors, but the steakhouses near the NYSE are not uncommon.
The "good ingredients" of this restaurant are not found on the menu.
The dishes that are not on these menus have a very domineering and very similar name to Wall Street's "local style", called Billionaire's Secret Menu.
You don't really need to be a billionaire to be eligible to order the dishes on this secret menu.
In the restaurant, the waiter or the bar manager can also do it, and anyone you can find can easily order the dishes from the secret menu.
Delmonico's understanding of the billionaire diet can be summed up in four words: simple and crude.
Most of the real billionaires should still eat everything.
But this restaurant understands that it is a group of people who have so much money that they need to eat gold.
I don't know if there are really many billionaires who visit this store, but the "poor general public" especially wants to enjoy the life of a billionaire in advance through the "Billionaire's Secret Menu".
Regardless of whether it is true or not, since it is eaten by billionaires, the price will definitely not be too cheap.
A piece of flatbread (which can be understood as a pizza cut into a rectangle) 150 dollars. (Note 1)
If you eat and cut meat, you usually need to cut a relatively large piece of meat to order a dish on the secret menu.
Of course, people don't mean to ask for a sky-high price.
After all, in addition to the "regular" species such as black truffle, foie gras, beef, and lobster, the toppings on this "pizza" also include 24K edible gold leaf.
It is the gold that is put on it, so that people who want to live the life of a billionaire have a strong sense of substitution.
In addition to the "gold signature" pizza, there are also cookies that also use real gold, and they are "cheap" and don't want it, only 50 dollars a piece.
If 50 slashes still hurt too much, then you can cut 15 more slashes.
Spend $35 on a milkshake and it tastes like a very ordinary chocolate and coffee option.
How can a decent milkshake make it to a billionaire's table?
Of course, it's because a layer of 24K gold leaf is poured on top.
As a historic restaurant, the things here, including those on the menu, are certainly not unpalatable.
After all, every chef in the restaurant is not unknown.
Yan Yun likes the style of this restaurant very much, and especially likes the sandwich on the secret menu that sells for 100 dollars.
Instead of gold leaf, this sandwich uses Swiss Scharfe Maxx and L'Etivaz cheese.
Yan Yun is a fan of these two hard cheeses.
It's just that for a "gourmet" like Yan Yun, this restaurant can't get there, and you have to come as soon as you get off the plane, and you can't sleep if you don't eat.
If the food in this restaurant is not the reason why Yan Yun must visit at this time, then there will be no second reason for Yan Yun to come to Wall Street to eat as soon as he gets off the plane, except for Qi Yi.
Yan Yun has never thought about breaking up with Qi Yi so far.
The reason for this, speaking of which, is also a bit laughable.
Yan Yun didn't have time to think about it.
In the past few years, it has been very rare for Yan Yun to squeeze out time to fall in love with Qi Yi.
For a little bit of time together, it's not enough to talk about love, where is there time to think about these things.
When Yan Ling and her parents asked Qi Yi's mother questions, Yan Yun always said with an innocent face: "I don't want to marry Qi Yi now, what do I care about his mother?
Lu Bingran and Yan Dabang both had the heart to beat Yan Yun and tell her not to be so naïve, the wisdom of the previous generation always needs to be learned a little.
But Yan Yun is really busy, Yan Dabang and his wife rarely see their daughter for a few days, and finally they can't bear to tell her that things that will not make her feel happy at all.
Knowing that Yan Ling would meet Yan Yun in the United States this time, the couple asked Yan Ling to persuade Yan Yun, who was already a big man and couldn't get married.
When Yan Yun had not yet come to the United States, Yan Ling had already "made" an appointment with Qi Yi once, and counting today's dinner, this was the second time that Yan Ling had seen Qi Yi in a week.
Qi Yi was originally going to pick up Yan Yun at the airport.
But Yan Yun resolutely disagreed, and asked Qi Yi to wait for her and Yan Ling in this restaurant early.
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Note 1:
The unit of US dollar and Australian dollar is Dollar, and many people like to translate this word as a knife very vividly.
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(Today's second chapter will be very late!Tomorrow Xiaomo will go back and start updating normally.) )