NYC city workers have a sizzling side hustle: A $100-a-head steakhouse on demand

They’re bringing the heat, the meat — and the clean-up duty.City employees Peter Annarumma, a firefighter at Engine 284 / Ladder 149 in Dyker Heights, and Joe Fraschilla, who works for the Department of Sanitation, have cooked up a sizzling side hustle: a steakhouse on demand.The so-called Porterhouse Party turns up with bone marrow shots, champagne guns and charcoal grills, charging $100 per head and available in the tri-state area.“What separates us from most chefs is, a chef will come to your house [and] cook, but for us it’s about entertainment as well.We bring the music, shots off bone marrow — it’s an immersive experience,” Annarumma, 37, told The Post. Guests can indulge in appetizers like shrimp cocktail, caviar bumps and thick-cut bacon and tomato sandwiches before the main event: 45-day dry-aged steaks sourced from a purveyor in the Meatpacking District and grilled on site.The pair, who grew up on Staten Island and still live there, came up with the idea during COVID, after taking up dry-aging steak as a way to take the edge off their stressful essential-worker jobs.

That led to them hosting dinner parties for friends and family and, in 2023, catering private parties — including one for “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Melissa Gorga and her staff and another for the NHL’s Florida Panthers.Gramercy-based event planner Amanda Orso heard about the Porterhouse Party through word of mouth and hired the crew a few months ago for a 60-person, Western-themed barbecue in Sands Point, Long Island.

“They brought a small charcoal grill.I was thinking, there’s no way they’re going to make all this steak for 60 people on that charcoal grill.

But the steak was incredible — I had guests remark it was some of the best steak they’ve ever had,” Orso, 45.She added that the raucous spectacle of it all — including her 70-year-old father doing bone marrow shots — took it to the next level.“I hadn’t done anything like tha...