Signature Recipes from America's Famous Restaurants
Impress guests with famous recipes made in your very own kitchen.
Looking for the recipe for a world-famous dish? We've gathered a few of America's most classic restaurants' signature dishes that you can make at home!Want to make restaurant-quality food with fewer calories and less fat? Try these restaurant recipe makeovers.
Commander's Palace
Location: New Orleans, LA
Serving Guests Since: 1880. The current owners purchased it in 1969.
Fun Fact: Top chefs Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse launched their careers at Commander's Palace, now headed by executive chef Tory McPhail.
Signature Dish: Bread Pudding Soufflé with Whiskey Sauce
Why It's Legendary: From the picture you can surely see why this marriage of bread pudding and soufflé is out of this world!
Pizza with Smoked Salmon and Caviar
spago pizza smoked salmon caviar
"Filet Mignon" Rare Tuna Seared Foie Gras
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Joe's Stone Crab's Key Lime Pie
In the 1950's, the only pie at the legendary Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach was apple pie. "But a visiting food critic from Chicago mistakenly mixed Joe's up with another restaurant and praised the Key Lime Pie," wrote Geoffrey Tomb of the Miami Herald after an interview with Jo Ann, the creator. Requests came flooding in, and Bass's father told her to develop a recipe. After a few modifications from new chefs at the restaurant, here is today's signature pie.
Recipe: Joe's Stone Crab's Key Lime Pie
The Four Seasons
Location: New York City
Serving Guests Since: 1959
Fun Fact: Built the same year as the restaurant, the Guggenheim Museum cost a mere $1.5 million. The total cost of The Four Seasons? A whopping $4.5 million — and this was in the '50s!
Signature Dish: Crabmeat Cakes, Crisp Beets, and Sweet Potatoes
Why It's Legendary: The crab cakes are formed using the cannelle technique (a three-sided shape), which is not only striking
architecturally, but unique.
Le Cirque
Location: New York City
Serving Guests Since: 1974
Fun Fact: In 2008, radio shock jock Howard Stern and longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrofsky married at the classic restaurant.
Signature Dish: Pasta Primavera
Why It's Legendary: On a family vacation in 1974, Le Cirque's proprietor, Sirio Maccioni, was faced with empty cupboards. He did what any good home cook would: He threw together what he did have. From that, the world-famous Pasta Primavera was born.
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