Cut Steakhouse

• Cuisine(s): California, Contemporary, Fine Dining, Seafood, Steak House, Steakhouse
  Hours: Mon-Thu 6pm-10pm, Fri 6pm-11pm, Sat 5:30pm-11pm
  Price: $$$$
  Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
• Attire: Dressy
  Features: Business Dining
  Serving: Dinner
  Alcohol: Full bar
• Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended
  Parking: Valet

Description

The billboard-size photographs of Cate Blanchett and George Clooney are a bit much. But at Cut, Wolfgang Puck's gleaming-white temple of steakhouse cuisine in the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, when faced with a fillet of first-quality Japanese beef, as wrapped in ­ninja-black cloth and carried around by the beef sommelier, you are facing the meat equivalent of an undiscovered Cranach. And if your financial consultants should permit you to order this rib-eye, you will discover a miracle unduplicated in the world of meat, richness upon richness, all possible permutations of smoke and char and animal dancing across your consciousness like sunlight rippling on a pond. At $160 or so, it will probably be the most expensive meat you have ever eaten ... but the sensations are so intense that one small steak easily satiates four. Save room for the warm veal-tongue salad and Lee Hefter's roasted bone marrow flan. Valet parking a half-block south of Wilshire Blvd. on Rodeo Drive. Read Full Review: "Flesh and Bone: Playing With Kobe at Mighty Cut." Read related Ask Mr. Gold: About Roasted Marrow Bones at Cut.