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.
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“A lot of times when you were in the studio recording an album, you didn’t know what the single was going to be,” said Joe, who produced The Ventures and a ton of other rock acts. “The label liked it if they could pull a song from an album that didn’t need a remix. So I tried to treat every track like it was a single. And hit singles all faded out at the three-minute mark.”
It was all about radio, Joe thought. Programmers had decided that no one liked a song that lasted more than three minutes, and DJs needed a fadeout to signal that the tune was ending, so they could talk over the fade about the song coming up next.
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Watching the HBO documentary “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” (trailer below) turned me into a belated Bee Gees fan. Twin brothers Robin and Maurice are prematurely deceased, Robin at age 62 and Maurice at age 53. Youngest brother Andy (a solo artist, not a member of the Bee Gees) died way too soon as well, of an addiction-related ailment at age 30. Only oldest brother Barry Gibb, age 74, survives. The air of mortality hangs over the story of their success like a cloud, but what an incredible story. Even though the curiosity of the documentary is distinctly limited, I was fully satisfied with its telling of the family story and insight into the Bee Gees’ singing, songwriting, and recording. All three Bee Gees brothers were gifted.