Ten years ago, living up in Princeton, NJ, virtually ALL our beef for dinner parties, wine tasting dinners, and special occasions, came from Lafrieda. Then came the "Dark Years" where residential customers could no longer get Dry-Aged more than 30 days, and couldn't buy full primal cuts... It was as if someone had decided that the home chef was a second-class customer...
In the ensuing years I found really good sources for whole, untrimmed tenderloins and fantastic Prime Rib, but I never found a NY strip that could match Lafrieda's. Just a few weeks ago I got an email saying that Pat Lafrieda was selling 30, 45, and 60-day dry aged NY strips to the public, and I jumped on board. It's possible that they went back to selling these much longer ago than when I saw it, but they lost a lot of high-end home-consumer customers when they shut down the dry-aged steaks, and I doubt many of us kept up with the emails from them since then...
I still don't see whole Dry-Aged Striploins, like they used to offer, but a one-pound, 45-day Dry-Aged Blue Label Black Angus Prime at 58 bucks feeds me, my wife, and our two puppies very nicely, and brought tears to my eyes when I remembered how much I had enjoyed the Lafrieda Steaks all those years...