The American Beefsteak: Politics and Excess | Sother Teague

The Restaurant Guys · Jul 28, 2026 · 31m · transcript

Recorded live at the House of Suze during Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans 2026.

Why This Episode Matters

Discover how the American beefsteak became a tool for political organizing in New York and New Jersey.

Learn the feast’s essential rules: endless meat, bread as a plate and no concern for remaining clean.

Hear how Prohibition and women’s suffrage changed public drinking—and the beefsteak itself.

Find out how New Jersey preserved the tradition after it faded elsewhere.

The Conversation

Mark Pascal, Francis Schott and Sother Teague take the stage together to explore one of America’s…