Mehran's Steak House hosted around 100 people for a $115 steak dinner in the event space on the Lower East Side, inviting everyone who had been on the virtual waiting list -- whether they knew it was fake or not.
"People kept calling it and I would say, hey, listen, like we're not a real steak house, but I do make a pretty good steak."At first glance, it looks like just another busy Saturday night in New York City – a bustling steak house filled with people craving fine dining. But looks can be deceiving.They are friends working together to pull off an elaborate stunt, an idea born in the pandemic by a bunch of roommates.
"Mehran made steak like every other week, and we would all come together, and it was super cute," said Danielle Egan, one of those behind the prank. "Honestly, like the house that we were in, it was a community living house, 14 of us living together in a four-story brownstone, basically a frat house and I mean, it was not any weirder than any of the other, like, little jokes that we had going on.
Reservations, as you might guess, were always sold out – the exclusivity making it all the more appetizing to discerning New Yorkers. "People kept calling it and I would say, 'Hey, listen, like we're not a real steak house, but I do make a pretty good steak,'" Mehran Jalali said. "It was completely shocking, just kind of that it actually happened and that people actually enjoyed their night.
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