Chef Michael Vignola of The Eighty Six, North America's number one steakhouse, shares his insights into cooking at this historic NYC restaurant that was popular with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway.
Bon Appétit spends a day on the line with Chef Michael Vignola of The Eighty Six , North America's number one steakhouse. This historic NYC restaurant was a popular spot for the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway and is straight out of the 1920s. 102 years since opening, this tiny restaurant continues to push boundaries and uphold its big legacy.
I have a 107 day age coffee and tobacco crusted stripWe are licensed to carry 27 different prefecturesOne thing great about The Eighty SixEvery little spot is hyper designed and focused. Hello, I'm Chef Michael Vignola here at The Eighty SixCome on in. It's 10:00 AM and we're already behind.you have Hemingway's booth,This is it guys, it's 200 square feet of pure powerHeading down to the belly of the beast here. A storage for above, we built this little shelf.
As well as our linen storage for our uniforms and jackets.as well as raw bar down here. We have a few different specimens here. Stripped about 107 days old at this point.that I have are Marlboro Reds and cold brew coffee. They really pair well and give you a height of umami.
This is the deckle or the rib cap,This has been lightly aging for about 11 days. It's got some great funk to it. This is just about right. We get these amazing ducks from Joe JurgielewiczThese, we have about six days on them at this point.
There's comfy in the sausage,that were natural casing for them.we're gonna start off with some of the butchery work. Corner. Coming to mind. Knife cuts and prep all happen downstairs.
If we're gonna fabricateThat means it is a nine of 11It's kind of got two different parts,See the bigger pockets of fat? We're gonna pull that off.in a variety of different fats and tallows. Really rich minerality. I think it is the best filet in the world,But, it is a delicious unctuous filet.
There's a lot of diners nowI'd rather take the earlier res and go to bed. We're gonna kind of mark offBut, you wanna make sure you hit your weights on everything. We're gonna talk about the endo muscular fat. Normal filets, you see, are just plain red.
These are gonna get sent downstairs,What we do is kind of round them out a little bitwho's cooking this piece,Meaning, he has to cut this off after it's been rested. It's just another level to ensure consistency.
Next up, we're gonna butcher our dry age deckle. So, as you can see it tapers, it's not a perfect card,so are like deck of cards out of it.it's roughly, you know, 80, 90 bucks a pound. In the grand scheme of things, not a lot.
This will grind, we'll use it in our beef jus.kind of, removing some of this excess pellicle or skin.and in the Dakotas that they hold these for me.just nobody does.they don't wanna pay for it, it's a true luxury item. I think there's a lot of good dry ageI think that's way over wrought, personally.and a little bit of that funky Parmesan umaminess. It barely brings even the covers cost of it,and have them enjoy the experience of the deckle.
Let's talk sardines, one of my favorite fish.and stiff as aboard beautiful clean eyes.on a pita crackers, this is not them. I feel like they're higher in fat.
It just tastes slightly better to me.and then we're just gonna use our fingersand gently just rub our nail around it.and it's stuck with me.we take off a little bit of the belly here, trim it up,It gets finished with a hot warm garlic oil,as well as this amazing sardine toast on the side. These came in just from mass today.they're gonna be an addition tonight.
The main pass through our door here to slitMake sure you don't run into somebody. It's tight. Watch your step through the gangplank. We're gonna shuck some of these beautiful sea scallops.
You wanna get your thumb in here,Keep that guy for display. It's great for everything from long distanceyou just kind of collect tools. This guy right here, it is one of one. The copper is from the flat iron building window casements.where my brother-in-law worked for 25 years as a polisher.
It is an extremely specific knife to me. It's kinda like they're with me all day. We're gonna get a bigger pot. We have our beautiful tube off the combi lineI salute you.
I'd like to put some Maldon in therefrom the scallop dredging. One thing we love is convertible items like magnetic,This is everything that we use for the pass.so I'm just pulling it apart,and you're left with this amazing, beautiful plump scallop. We just got in our Dover soles from Jean Mark. You can tell by the whiteness of their bellies.
Came from the south of France. We got four pieces in today. Looks like we're doing Dovers next since they showed up.
First things first sanitize. We're gonna cut right up here.make a clean incision, flip it over,These scissors are garden shears. And then we're gonna lightly skin this fish. One shot.
Knock 'em out. Cups up, this is where we come upstairs.that we're gonna walk through for today. Let's go.it's not, it's, it's very under seasoned. More salt.
Oh. This is the Caesar dressing,It's little grainy. We said the celery root puree needed. That's where I think you're getting the graininess from.no acid either, it needs a little bit of cherry.
We're getting the rest the order together. Spot checking. That went pretty well. We're always fighting deliveries here in New York.
We've been arguing back and forth about butchery and specs. And I said, cut me X, Y, and Z and let's look through them.short loin of Australian Wagyu porterhouse. It's this kind of piece right here. And this will be a great beautiful porterhouse for us.it just came outta cryo, so it'll start to bloom shortly.as we head into the spring months and spring menu.
Cut off the shore loin again as it tapers down,This is from Rosewood, one of the original wagyu in America.so they waited 20 years of geneticsyou can purchase.jumping to the hoops for us and making us look good. We got some more deliveries coming in. I've known Estelle for a very long time. Oh, yeah.
They're super perishable.they are like the best strawberry you can get.just a little thank you and gesture to them. We like to highlight amazing things in seasonwho's amazing at what she does. She's got a whole big business and amazing children. Yes.
How long? Okay. How much a flat? 325 for two kilos. Thanks.
For VIPs. These are one of the itemsA fresh burn or cultivated? I don't want pieces. This is it.
Gap season until the Australian black end of June. Are you still doing deliveriesIt would be boring my job Thank you, Estelle. Bye, thank you. Trying to get through things.
Cooks are coming in. During service,This is what I love. It's the most unblemished liver. It is fed corn until the liver kinda gets fatty and unctuousTo clean the fois, I'm really gonna use two tools.not blemishing the outside of the skinIt is gonna be a rolled tarinedark brown sugar,as well as Cognac saw turn and Muscat.
You can see the vein runs right through it. We're all done here,Lemme introduce you to our general manager, Leigh Kodzoman. PXs are any friends of the brand,We have 17 first time diner reservations. Are we doing white asparagus tonight?
And we'll figure out through the book where they go.and number 12 in the worldThis is pretty humbling and it's a little surreal. yeah, dude. This little hole, this tell you. I am really like, ha, I'm so excited.03:30, time for pre-shift. What's up guys?
Happy Wednesday.if we need some more to up them. It's a new organic endive. It tends to lessen that bitterness kinda like broccoli rabe. A little while ago I got a insane phone call.
So, the crew that does this in and out,I can't tell you how incredibly grateful and humbled I amAnd, if I talk anymore, I'm gonna cry. To number 12 in the world, number one in my heart. All right, it's 03:50, we flipped the kitchen,Chef Winston and I do our dance for the night. You can see these very custom brackets we have you.
We've talked about it all day now it's time, it's battle. Walk it in. Churro, lobster pasta on back. I'm gonna need you get the outta here.
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