Here’s something that doesn’t come around every day: a tasting menu-focused restaurant that centers on 100 percent grass-fed Wagyu beef. The meaty dream becomes an actual reality starting Thursday with Matu (stylized as matū) in Beverly Hills, thanks to co-founder Jerry Greenberg and his team’s new five-course tasting menu.
Let’s start with the opening menu, which could be compared to a Japanese seafood omakase, but for steak. The Wagyu in question at Matu hails from New Zealand’s First Light Farms, and (at least for the tasting menu portion) is spread across a bone broth starter, a tartare, a steak seared on the plancha with salad, a braised beef course, and a steak cooked over the fire, with a vegetable side.