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GREG GADNER PHOTOS
NO BEEF ABOUT
THIS STEAK
Jensen Beach restaurant’s sizzling steaks
draw patrons from near and far
Ever since Peter Buchner bused the first table at his
mother’s Austrian hillside restaurant as a 6 year old,
he knew he would be a restaurateur.
Opened in 1999, Peter’s Steakhouse is referred to
by his employees as “the best kept secret in Jensen Beach.”
But the fact is, the 85-seat restaurant is known by steak aficionados
from around the world and across the United States.
“Before I retired, I traveled around the country and ate
at all the great steakhouses — the independents and the
chains — New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco,” says Ed
Brown, a New York snowbird with a condo on Hutchinson
Island. “Peter’s is better than any of them. I like the menu. I
like the steaks and I like the service and the atmosphere.”
Dining by himself, Brown says he and his wife have
enjoyed meals at the restaurant since it opened, sampling
porterhouse, boneless Angus strip, T-bone, New York, rib-eye
and filet mignon steaks and other entrees.
Another customer was playing golf in Japan, when he was
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BY GREG GARDNER
This is an authentic
Austrian meal with
32-ounceT-bone steak,
creamed spinach, garlic
bread and Liptauer butter,
a smooth Austrian
mix of cream cheese,
herbs and butter.