If your idea of a perfect New York dinner involves prime steak, seafood, cocktails and a waterfront view, Carne Mare has a table with your name on it—although your credit card may want to sit this one out.
Located at Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, Carne Mare is chef Andrew Carmellini’s Italian chophouse, combining prime-aged beef, Wagyu, seafood and Italian specialties inside a dramatic two-story space overlooking the Manhattan waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge. Carne Mare
The menu is basically what happens when an Italian restaurant and a steakhouse decide to stop arguing and collaborate.
Start with oysters, spicy crab lettuce cups or the restaurant’s famously indulgent mozzarella sticks with caviar. There’s also Wagyu beef tartare, tuna and Spanish octopus for anyone who wants to ease into the evening before committing fully to the beef.
Then comes the main event.
Carne Mare offers everything from an 8-ounce center-cut filet and prime ribeye to massive dry-aged cuts designed for sharing. The restaurant’s 40-day dry-aged Porterhouse, known as Bistecca Fiorentina, is priced at $235, while the 12-ounce Gorgonzola-cured Wagyu striploin comes in at $155.
Yes, Gorgonzola-cured steak is a thing. And yes, New York apparently decided steak needed even more personality.
The Italian side of the menu keeps things interesting with mushroom raviolini, spicy lobster spaghetti and The Don “Lasagn”, a dry-aged beef Bolognese creation. Sides include creamed spinach, mushroom Marsala and a twice-baked potato loaded with black truffle and fontina.
And then there is the view.
With its high-design interior, wraparound bar and waterfront setting, Carne Mare is built for birthdays, date nights, business dinners and those evenings when ordering another round somehow becomes part of the itinerary.
For anyone searching for Carne Mare NYC, best steakhouses in NYC, South Street Seaport restaurants or waterfront restaurants NYC, this one deserves a spot on the list.
Because sometimes dinner isn’t just dinner.
Sometimes it’s steak with a skyline.
