Steak-filled tasting menus with a flair for the dramatic—meet LA's new Niku X.
Thompson serves cuts like Masami Ranch beef tongue from Northern California, Toriyama tenderloin from Japan and Stone Axe top sirloin cap from Australia. The domestic Wagyu, he explains, is almost always “a cross-breed with a very beefy flavor like you would expect in American beef.” The Japanese beef has less of that beefy flavor and is more about the marbling and texture. The Australian Wagyu is like a “hybrid of both of those.” Plus, Niku X is dry-aging beef on-site to enhance the flavors.
“I kind of got to view the world from a different lens than most kids,” he says. “My dad would take me out of school routinely just to travel. He would tell my teachers, ‘He’s going to learn a lot more with me than he’s learning with you.’ And the teachers hated that. But the reason I got into food is because of traveling extensively. My parents were both really into different cultures and different foods.
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