How NYC’s fine-dining elite got pranked by Gen Zer’s fake steakhouse — complete with milk servers
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How NYC’s fine-dining elite got pranked by Gen Zer’s fake steakhouse — complete with milk servers, ‘celebs,’ and wedding proposal
This Manhattan restaurant is a tough reservation to book — because it doesn’t exist.
The foodie gentry who gathered for their dinner at Mehran’s Steakhouse this weekend believed they’d at last gotten off the years-long waitlist for a highly exclusive, 100-year-old chop house, which finally had an available table at its Lower East Side location.
In reality, what some 140 diners experienced this Saturday evening was an elaborate prank pulled off by a 21-year-old AI startup founder — and some 65 of his friends.
The practical joke of a white tablecloth institution was born during the pandemic, in 2021, when Mehran Jalali’s 16 housemates decided to commemorate the biweekly steak dinners he’d cook them by marking their Upper East Side home as a chop house on Google Maps.
The mostly teenage roomies all left glowing reviews for the newfound institution, leading to intrigued strangers showing up at their door seeking steak.
Mehran then made a website for their solidly booked, “revolutionary steak experience” and, by the end of 2022, had accrued a 4,000-person waitlist.
Seeking to make the hoax a reality, he recruited his friends to compose the volunteer staff, found a venue, got a one-day liquor license, food handling permits, plane tickets to New York (he now lives in San Francisco) and a 212 number to invite select waitlisters to his ephemeral eatery.
For those who attended, the relatively subtle charade was an only-in-New-York stunt to be remembered.
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This Manhattan restaurant is a tough reservation to book — because it doesn’t exist.
The foodie gentry who gathered for their dinner at Mehran’s Steakhouse this weekend believed they’d at last gotten off the years-long waitlist for a highly exclusive, 100-year-old chop house, which finally had an available table at its Lower East Side location.
In reality, what some 140 diners experienced this Saturday evening was an elaborate prank pulled off by a 21-year-old AI startup founder — and some 65 of his friends.
The practical joke of a white tablecloth institution was born during the pandemic, in 2021, when Mehran Jalali’s 16 housemates decided to commemorate the biweekly steak dinners he’d cook them by marking their Upper East Side home as a chop house on Google Maps.
The mostly teenage roomies all left glowing reviews for the newfound institution, leading to intrigued strangers showing up at their door seeking steak.
Mehran then made a website for their solidly booked, “revolutionary steak experience” and, by the end of 2022, had accrued a 4,000-person waitlist.
Seeking to make the hoax a reality, he recruited his friends to compose the volunteer staff, found a venue, got a one-day liquor license, food handling permits, plane tickets to New York (he now lives in San Francisco) and a 212 number to invite select waitlisters to his ephemeral eatery.
For those who attended, the relatively subtle charade was an only-in-New-York stunt to be remembered.
your moms house,your mom's house,reddit stories,mk1 all characters,funny reddit stories,maliciouscompliance,malicious compliance,west,r/maliciouscompliance,jeans,mortal kombat 1 homelander,rapper,father,twitter,mortal kombat 1 dlc characters,business,choctopus,tom segura,prorevenge,life stories,choctopus dx,r/prorevenge,r/pro revenge,entitled parents,r/entitledparents,r/entitled parents,what's with the jeans,r/idontworkherelady
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before doing anything. We will respectfully remove it immediately.
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- Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.