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Cooking Up Mehran’s Steak House - by danielle (raw & feral)

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How we made an internationally-acclaimed restaurant from scratch

On September 23, 2023, Mehran’s Steak House had its illustrious opening and fateful closing night, existing for one brilliant second as the culmination of a year’s worth of preparation. Thousands vied to get in, and on that night, 120 lucky guests finally secured the hardest reservation in all of New York - because it was for a restaurant that didn’t really exist. The following Monday, the New York Times and New York Post released articles about the scheme, we shared behind the scenes clips on social media, and the story went viral, covered by ABC, BBC, CBC, CBS, and every other acronym you…

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