Nick DiGiovanni - I Ate The World's Best Steak

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

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DeVosveneat, without a business, This is the number one rated steak in the entire world, and we're going to compare it to this ultra- rare wagyu that costs $100 per bite, this futuristic steakhouse that turns meat into cotton candy and everything in between. And we're starting here in Turkey at Salt Bayes Restaurant, Nooserette Steakhouse. You ready? Always. Tell me about the grill.

This is iron. This is going to give incredible flavor to the meat. This is the giant Tomahou, Turkish Wagyu. Four weeks, dry age. Look at the incredible red, vibrant color of this beef, and this streaks. of fat in there, that beautiful marbling. Most important, you must hear this voice. You want even contact across the whole tomahawk on the grill,

so it gets even char marks, but this is heavy, so it doesn't need you to press it. Obviously, we don't have any browning in the center there, but look at these lines. He flips it sideways for the cross hatch pattern when you get that kind of criss-cross on a steak. In addition to the tomahawk, he's also got a beautiful Chateau-Bri-on. This is a tenderloin, but it's the best part of the tenderloin.

That's a good sound. Looking good, salt, When you cook, must be more gentle. Oh. Look at the contrast between the golden brown crust on the edge there and that beautiful red on the inside. Now he's laying it on its side to render some of the fat on the edges off. And look at this. I just noticed his chain is the exact same shape of the steak we're cooking right now. He's letting me go for a try here. Hopefully I don't mess it up.

Push it down a little bit, quickly get that very, very top part. Isn't this crazy? Me and Saltbe used to have beef. Now we're cooking beef together. Look at the perfect pattern that he got on the tenderloin. This is the art. He's right. Cooking is a patient process sometimes. We've been standing here for maybe 15, 20 minutes. Every minute is important. So pay. Every few seconds, he spins the steak just a little bit.

And what that's doing is making sure that the whole steak gets even contact across the grill at all times. He's moved it around so much that it almost has a fully even crust. This is the longest I've ever seen a steak cooked on the grill. And it looks amazing. Almost medium. How do you know? Last 29 years, I cook every day. Looks like it's done. It's time for the presentation of the steak.

The moment you've all been waiting for. Look at that. Cook to perfection. The biggest by the mate I've ever had. That's the color right there that you want in any steak. To see how much care he puts into cooking it, and then to actually taste it right away after that. It's juicy.

Look at that drip. It's flavorful, perfectly salted, unbelievable. I've always wanted to see him do this. This is so satisfying. Oh, listen to those crispy checheron's in there. It's one of the best sounds I think I've heard from food. And if you think this, This looks good, just wait until you see some of the steakhouses coming later in this video.

Listen. Three, two, one. Salt bay! Oh my god. With the chicharon in there? Salt bay. Can I ask you to just try my steak seasoning? This is my Osmo steak seasoning.

It's available at Walmart and in addition to the steak seasoning, I've got chicken, seafood, vegetable, and all-purpose flaky salt. Since you're the king of steak, I'd love to see if this is Salt Bay approved. I'm kind of nervous. He's keeping me in suspense here. spent here. Gorgeous. You like it? Very fresh.

tasty. Salvee. One of the best bites of steak I've ever had. Our next stop is a Michelin-Stard steakhouse called Cut. And here we're going to try the rarestake in the entire world. Japanese Kobe beef. It's so rare that each cow actually gets its own official birth certificate. Oh, and this is my friend Eric.

He's going to be eating with me. How's it going, guys? Why would you wear crocs? I told you multiple times this was a fancy restaurant. You can take the man out of the crocs, but you can't take the crocs out of the man, am I right? I feel like I'll regret introducing you to you to you to? introducing you to the head chef, but I'm going to do it anyways. Nick, nice to see you. How's it going? How are you? I am looking for the dollar menu.

Not here. This is what we're going to be enjoying today. This is the real deal of Kobe beef. All Kobe beef is Wagyu, but not all Wagyu is Kobe beef. It has to meet a certain criteria. You be eligible to sell it. You have to have this certification. It's about $100 an ounce. I've had people cry after they've taken a bite of this. What are we about to experience? You know a regular steak, right, Eric? Yeah. Well, if you jump a few levels above that, you get Wagyu. Very fancy Japanese beef. But then above that, there's this very small amount of absolutely perfect Wagyu that qualifies as Kobe beef. And this is considered the best steak on the planet. It's like Big Mac but 10% better or something like that.

No. What I love so much about Wagyu is every single hut is different, like a snowflake. One of the other things that makes it so expensive is you're trimming off so much of these different parts to get to the core of the Wagyu. This one little piece right here is about $25 worth of Kobe. Look at it compared to my head. What are you going to do with this? The cool thing about Kobe beef, you can do whatever. you want to it and it's not gonna suck.

So are you thinking like chicken make nuggets? So the whole space back here is hot. Like it's not just this, it's like the entire kitchen is like scalding hot. It makes me angry back here. I just wanna do a quick challenge and see which one of you can hold your hand over the grill longer.

Eric versus chef. Three, two, one, go. I'm gonna have burns from that. I can't feel anything. Dude, what are you talking about? I can't feel anything. All right, let's cook. Where do we start? This is a little bit of rendered wagyu fat.

Wow. So not to change the flavor of the beef. at all. See how he's seasoning from high up guys? This is how you're supposed to season. Kobe goes on. The smell is insane. Do you feel like a high level of responsibility cooking this meat? 100%. Yeah, I mean, this is something that you cannot mess up. You're saying that to me, like, I would mess this up. You absolutely would. What's so cool about how they cook this Kobe here at this restaurant is that they're getting the flavor and the grill marks from the

charcoal and the wood over here, and then they're moving it over to a plancha to cook it the rest of the way through in a different way. I like it a little past, medium rare. It looks so good. You might shed a tier or two. This is going to be the best thing you've ever had in your life. You guys are in for a treat. We're just going to serve it simply with a little bit of salt.

The plating is awesome. Super simple. Let's do this. Cheers. It's something else here now. Something new. From exclusively on Paramount Plus, it's the series Stephen King calls Scarious Hell.

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That was the best bite of food I've ever had in my life. This might be crazy, but I want to try with my new seasoning. Our slogan is that Osmo makes everything better. This might be one rare exception where I don't think it's going to be the case. That's insane, dude. It's fun. The only thing I feel I could make it better is some ketchup. Let's go to the next steakhouse before I get mad.

Our next restaurant is a Brazilian steakhouse called Max and Guga's meatery. Since my friend Guga is Brazilian and Max cooks meat almost every single day, I asked them to open a one-day restaurant just for this video. Nice to meet you. I heard so much about you. This is quite possibly the most exclusive steakhouse in the world. It is as exclusive as he gets. Max, fix it please.

Yeah, just slap it. What you were saying, sir? What were you saying? Before we eat, can you take me around the kitchen? Absolutely. So here we have a few skewers ready to go for you, sir. Picayam, skirt steak, pineapple, some beautiful resilient sausages. What is this? Filamignon and bacon. We have the filet mignon and bacon, and of course, we have the waxed.

But not any waggues. These are the most exquisite waggues in the world, because each single one of them is an experiment. Max, can you do it properly, please? Are you all right? I'm good, I'm good. Okay, good. But as I was saying, each one of these

wagus are experiments for my videos and only for you. Max, you begin with this one, please. So a generous amount of salt in all of our skewers. Do you know what this cut is? Picagna. That is correct. Brazilian's number one steak. Picayna, we only use salt and nothing else,

but the other two, we're actually gonna use a little bit of black pepper, which is totally fine. I'm still a chef in training at this Brazilian steakhouse, but somehow today you've left me with the best of the best, the Wagyu. That is correct. Don't mess it up, Max. How do you like your steaks?

I actually prefer medium. What? I'm serious. I like medium. Get out! We've got our grill nice and hot. Let's put them in. Why don't we start with the pecania?

It's the biggest? Yes, and the best. Piccane is in, followed by... Beautiful flank steak. That's correct. Outside skirt steak. That is correct, sir. We have our bacon-wrapped Palais mignon.

And the end? Sausages. Yes. Walla. Now close this up because we're not done yet. It is time for our beautiful pineapple dessert. Giving our pineapple a really nice sear. from both sides.

Charcoalal at the bottom, torch over the top. We're cooking from every angle. Don't burn it nice. Not bad. Now that we got a little bit of char, we'll sprinkle a little bit of cinnamon and sugar. And now we let it cook for a little bit longer, caramelizing everything.

And it's going to be amazing. No, no, no, no, no. We got to caramelize it nice and slow. Good things comes with patience, Nick. Oh, Guga! Let's check in on our meat. Oh, okay. We're getting there. Color is looking great on that skirt steak.

All those juices just basing itself. That man is in for a treat. He is. Let's cook you some ague, sir. Straight from Japan, several different gratings. I just want to ask one more time, how do you like your steaks? Medium.

And the key is to get a nice, beautiful golden brown crust. That type of caramelization is the one I like. You go sit down, sir. You go enjoy it. We're ready? Yes. We're ready. Now we serve. Here we got some piccania, sir.

We have some beautiful flank steak. Nice and medium just the way you like it, sir. Wow, that looks cooked really well. Oh my gosh. Sorry about that. You're gonna poke me in the eye. I apologize. The piccagna is really good.

Max, max, max, max, lower it here to his table. So, unprofessional. There you go, and they put it out. Yeah. Yes, yes. You just upgraded, good job. It's cooked plenty.

I'll double chat for you. Mm. Hmm. No chance you guys are supposed to be eating. I will say, so far, very good. I quite literally believe that Guka and Max could make the best Brazilian steakhouse on the planet for one day. Probably not every day, but definitely for one day.

Sure, we got some slices up. Oh, oh, apologize. Wow, the nice thin slice right there. Yes, sir. Very good. I think you could use one more slice. You almost just poke my eyes. Let's just put us down.

This is actually so dangerous. I apologize. The marinade on this is fantastic. Very good, huh? This is the biggest plate of me I've ever had at a Brazilian steakhouse. They actually did an incredible job. All right, I need you to try this one.

It's a pecania, Wagyu A5, some of the greatest pecania this out of the Mississippi. Wow, that's incredible. Thank you. Good job, Shire. And here we have the specialty, sir. Just a few pieces of Wagyu for you.

Something is off. That's disgusting. We dry aged in durian. We like to experiment here, sir. It's like petrol. It's so horrible. And of course, we have desserts, sir. This is caramelized pineapple.

Diggin. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That is exceptionally good. Max Oguga's meatery. You wish you could eat here, but you can't because you guys are permanently closed right now.

At least we made it one day, Max. Our next restaurant is Peter Lugar Steakhouse. The number one rated steakhouse in New York City that's world famous for its dry-aged beef that served on a hot, sizzling plate of butter. I've also brought along my friend Matt Stoney to help me eat. If you haven't seen him before,

he is one of the best competitive eaters in the world. First we're gonna check out their dry age vault. This room we're entering right now is filled with over $1 million worth of dry-aged beef. And to remind anybody who doesn't understand, the entire point of dry aging like this is to develop lots and lots of flavor in beef. Smells like a weird cheese.

I've never smelled a smell like that before. As we walk down this room, the meat is gonna get harder and harder because it's been aging longer. The meat just goes on forever. They just have tons and tons of meat hallways in here. Peek over the top. It's like the coolest view I've had in here. I'm not that tall.

You want me to lift you up? Sure. Oh, it's beautiful! Some of these actually feel like a rock. I think I've torn my knuckle a little bit by just knocking that. I can push this as hard as I can with my hands and fingers. Nothing. Now the hardest part, picking the meat that we're going to eat.

Dude, I eat hot dogs. I have no idea what I'm looking for here. Ooh, look at these guys. That one is huge. Matt, I think I found our meat. Frank is a master butcher. He's going to help us break this thing down. And he's going to start by trimming off that outer bark since we can't eat that part.

And then that right there is the first full steak being cut. being cut. Of all the pieces we just got, this is the biggest, nicest one. This is a porterhouse. But there's just one more quick step before cooking, which is to trim off some of that excess fat. Here's a good before and afterlook of trimming off that fat. That be honest, in one sitting, how many of these do you think you could realistically eat? That stack works doable right there. What? All right, time to cook this bad boy. They have these crazy ovens here. It's basically like a giant broiler. These are 1,000 degrees Celsius. 1,000? And as you can see, they put a lot of very fine salt on the top of the steaks. The reason

there's so much salt is it's only going on that top side and then later when they add the butter it's going to melt down with all that salt and create almost a sauce i've never seen snakes cook like this before like the flame is right there above it it's oddly calm oh oh it's on fire it's like making us some more looks like it's time for a flip oh nice there we go look at those bubbles on there all of that really fine salt has dissolved across the steak when it's almost done cooking they're going to slice the steak and as a reminder this is a porter house so you get both that new york strip and the tenderloin here but the very final step is to cook it a second time and some butter

to give it some extra last second flavor, and that way they can send the finish plate out to the dining room when it's still hot and sizzling. Matt, you want to share or you want your own? Is that a question? This looks amazing. I think there's something about watching it be cooked that makes me hungry.

It's like waiting in line of Disneyland or something, you know? It's like you see all the action. You get very excited. I'm gonna go for a piece of the tenderline first. Going for a little butter dip as well. Dude, the butter is insane. That butter is really good. I can taste the dry flavor.

And the crust is crazy. I don't think we've ever had a steak out just before. You need this some sort of flavor. This is like the most pure, salt, butter. Well, that's the thing. The coolest part about the steakhouse to me is that the flavoring is all done in that dryaderm downstairs. They don't need seasoning, but maybe they don't know about Osmo.

We're moving on to Born and Bread, the 15th best steakhouse in the world known for its Hanu beef. Korea's ultra- rare version of Wagyu that never leaves the country, which means I had to fly all the way here just to try it. And I've also brought along my friend Duby to eat with me. Aniyo! Ready? I'm ready.

They're letting us first take a quick peek in their butchery, where they prepare all the beef for this experience. What differentiates Hanu versus other types of butchery is that the cuts are much more specified to really make sure you get that really nice texture and flavor all in one. What they're doing here with this beef is mostly letting the lines of fat guide where they cut so that they are not cutting through the actual meat. But what's really crazy to me about all this is that I'd never heard of Hanu before we started working on this video. It's such a well-kept secret in Korea and that must be for good reason. This is amazing. Wow, so fancy. I know. I didn't know what would be this

The first dish we'll get to try is this steak tartar made from Hanu top round. What a bite. Wow. I'm really excited for this second one. It uses the Hanu beef rump and they're combining it with strawberry. I've never seen anything like this before. There's also some honey-infused vanilla oil going on top as well as a little mint leaf there. Oh my gosh.

It tastes like a dessert. Wow. The first thing that came to my mind before I tasted the beef with strawberry shortcake. You're onto something. Next we get to try this Hanu tenderloin topped with a bit of truffle. I really love the simplicity. love the simplicity of this dish. Meat and truffle. How could it go wrong?

That's a juicy fellow. It tastes so pure, but the flavor is not very overpowering in a nice way. It's unlike any piece of beef that I've ever tried before. Before our next bite, it looks like we're getting a pallet cleanser. Some mango with a little bit of black lime zest. Oh, oh my gosh, I'm going to start eating my mangoes with lime zest every time. This next course is really creative. It's a Hanu top blade that's cooked using both charcoal and snow.

Why are you resting the meat on the snow? This is what our ancestors used to do. Put on the charcoal and cool the mitam. When the charcoal, do this stuff. Back and forth? Yes. That's so cool. So it's like rapid resting.

I'm curious to see if this worked. It's one of the best bites I've ever gotten. I'm not totally sure what this next course is, but it's being very carefully grilled in some traditional Korean paper. They're also constantly spraying it with water to keep it moist. He's untying it now, almost sort of like a Christmas present. Whoa. Is it a perfect mix of beef and fish?

I think it is. What's being smeared on top is a toilet. Tunzang sauce. Tunzang is a Korean traditional bean paste that's been fermented for longer. And I was using a torch to caramelize the sugars to really boost that flavor. Mmm, it tastes like a hamburger patty with mishol black cod. Nouveau meets McDonald's. Getting close to the end of the meal now, we've got some hot pot using Hanu top sirloin.

I love how they're using every cut of beef in a completely different way. It tastes like a fresh garden. For me, it's the textual component of the vegetables. It's almost like noodles. The fresh wasabi and the fat together are really good. The final dish is a Hanu Bulgogi, the national dish of Korean royalty. This right here is the dish I flew all the way to Korea for. This is making my mouth water.

He's plating this with the beef drippings and the broth. What is this? It's a pan-sang, the Korean classic table fair. This is the highlight. Where do we start? I think I'm going to go for a leafy green. We put our beautifully seared kaibe on top. We do a little bit of the marinated raw crab, a little bit of rice.

You wrap it up. Boom. Here you go. There's so many flavors here, but what's so much fun is that you can build each little wrap each time however you want. This feels like a friend who, after summer, Ray, just got a total transformation.

It's like, girl, who is she? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Our next stop is Coat, a Michelin-starred Korean Barbecue Restaurant that's the number one ranked steakhouse in America. I don't have a guest for this one, so I'm sending one lucky subscriber here for dinner instead. But don't worry,

there are plenty more guests joining us later in this video. Here comes the chef. He's going to start by oiling up the grill with some beef fat trimmings. This first guy here is hangar steak. Ooh, and we're already cooking. Of all the restaurants out there,

Korean barbecue is one of my favorite, because you see the food from start to finish. Rotating it around a little bit. Yes, because he has different hot spots. Look at that. My first bite of beef here. Mmm. The hangar is the most underrated cut of steak.

That's my favorite cut, cut, actually. Me too. Boom. I love how many sides there are, by the way. The sides here are actually part of the reason. This is the only Michelin Star Korean Barbecue restaurant. in the United States.

I'm going to use them to make a nice lettuce wrap. Don't take me a bit. This next steak here is a 45-day dry-aged rabbi. You'll notice that the chef is cooking all the meat for us, and that's because the quality of beef they use here is so incredibly high that they don't want you to mess it up. But I'm not sure how I feel about that, since I actually like cooking my own stuff at Korean barbecue.

That one is amazing. The flavor combined with the fact that it's fresh, hot off the grill. I would say for me, that's a clear top 10 steak bite ever. I'm also going to try this with a Shiso, which sort of tastes like a mix between mint, basil, and licorice. I don't know how to describe it, but I really like it. Looks like next we've got an 120-day dry-aged ribbi. This will be the longest-aged beef that we try in this entire video.

This is very rare to find in any steakhouse. Doesn't taste like blue cheeses? It tastes a lot like blue cheese. It's weird. The more you chew it, the more it tastes like blue cheese. If you like blue cheese, then you might like 120-day dry-aged beef. If not, I don't think you'd like it. Finally, we have the Kobe beef. Here we go.

That one's my favorite. That one's my favorite. Perfect overall balance across the entire bite from start to finish. Before our final bite of Korean barbecue, he's gonna change out the grill here since the final steak has such a different flavor profile. They are not messing around.

This one's called the dessert steak. It's a short rib that's been marinated in soy sauce, brown sugar, and pear juice to make it sweet and tender. It's almost as if a piece of cooked beef were very lightly candy. I didn't know how I'd feel about this one, but that is exceptionally good. Let's go eat some more steak.

Up next is Maison Casay. A fancy, The Tabachi restaurant run by a Michelin Star Chef. I also brought along a couple friends to help me eat. We've got Patrick and Albert. I didn't tell you this yet, but the experience has already started. We are in a room that somewhere has a secret door that leads to the restaurant. All right, that's good looking.

Nope, that's not it. Oh, Albert, you found it. Oh, no way. Welcome, guys, welcome. Woohoo! All right. All right, here we go. Okay.

I want to try. Get loose. Oh no, I don't like this. I don't like this. All right, here we go. We're just going to stack this egg. What? Leaning tower of eggs.

All right. I'm going to light it up. Oh. Oh. We're going to start off with some eggs. What? We're just going to play with our food. It's like art.

The vegetables for the rice. Is that day-old rice chef? Week old. A week old. All right, there we go. It's a heart. I love you guys. Oh, is that the awesome seasoning?

Yeah. We got our frere cakeke with sesame seeds. I love foorecaque. We have the veggies here. Some shataki mushrooms. Some rosemary. Wow, I love that. That right there is one of the small but important details

that separates the good from the grape. Beef tallo, another thing that separates the good from the grape. Start off with our rabbi. Beautiful ribbi. I mean, they had a regular tapernaki place. They're not wrapping the meat like this with like rosemary and thyme, so this is just next level. Okay, there we go, careful.

Hey! This one's dangerous to not try this at home. Grab this. What? Oh, that was crazy! What is this guy? He got a little bit. Here we go, this.

Add more meat, we have the Kobe, imported from Japan. The most expensive cut of meat, huh? Palais mignon, a little more Osmo on there. Love it. Leave tallo. Add our lobster. Unbelievable. That's an incredible looking lobster tail. Oh.

Wow. Another one? Yeah. We're just gonna light the lobster. Poor guy did nothing. Little train, little train. You know, when I was a kid, that would be my favorite part. It's still my favorite.

There it is. Wow. Oh, chees. That is so good. That is really incredible. I don't know what's happening in my mouth, but there's a lot of things happening, and I thank you for it. It's like buttery, beautifully cooked.

All right, here we go. This is just a truffle shaving on the cold baby. Bon Appetit, baby. Dang, look at that. It's like a garden with steak. That is so good. All right, yeah, so there we go. We're just gonna light it up.

There's a steak. Oh, thank you. Can I do a flip with a steak? Yeah, here you go. No, no, no. Let's enter our next restaurant. Up next is Gordon Ramsey's steak, where we'll be trying Gordon's iconic Beef Wellington. And Gordon himself actually sent along a little video to tell me exactly what to order.

Hey Nick, it's Gordon. Now I hear you're on the lookout for the world's best steak houses. Go to Gordon Ramsay steak. I promise you you'll love it. Maybe try the beef Wellington and then move away from steak and try that incredible seafood platter. Enjoy! I've also brought along my friend Q to help me eat. What's up guys?

First course incoming. We have our Hamachi Crudo here. We also have our Prime Beef Sliders. Prime Youth Tartar. Where do we begin? I'm gonna try a little steak tartar. Hmm. That is up there with the top two or three steak tartars I think I've ever had.

This is on my top three. I don't even know the other two. Another slider. Mmm. So far, very, very enjoyable, all of it. When some people think of steak, they think of surf and turf. So before the turf, the Beef Wallington, I wanted to try a little bit of surf. I'm gonna set you up for your next course here.

What? We have our ice gelfish platter. It's like a wedding cake. This is a mega seafood platter. It's got oysters. It's got clams. It's got shrimp. It's got lobster, it's got king crab.

Best part, I know you love mini things. We got the mini Tabascos. Can you blame us for wanting to try this thing? I'm gonna start over in King Crabb Land. It made it really easy to just slide it right out. Wow. I'm gonna do a little lesson for everybody on oyster etiquette. Give it a little bit of lemon, a touch of cocktail sauce,

then slurp, chew it, enjoy it. You take that oyster shelf and you flip it upside down. Which indicates that it's empty. I'm gonna grab a shrimp now. Everything's delicious. I don't know how you can't love this. You ready for the main event? This is it. Gordon's classic beef Wellington. It comes with a palm puree. That's a fancy way of saying potato puree, as well as a few different vegetables, a little beef glaze, and of course, the actual Wellington. Perfection. You'd think it'd be hard to cut because it's beef, but it is like butter. You've got to make sure you get that puree puree. Oh man, it's iconic, it's delicious. It's so soft. It's got so many different textures. The crispy puff pastry on the outside and the creamy mushroom puree that's right inside that. And then the beef, of course, is a nice, beautiful, chewy texture. As it all comes together, it's the bruce. It's the brucey texture. It's the brusely. It's the brisk.

perfect play. This is probably my 10th time having one of Gordon's Beef Wellington's and it is perfect every time. Every single time. Let's go to the next restaurant. We are now in Paris France to try steak fritz and I'm here with my friend Charles who's going to say the name of the restaurant says I don't know how. This is the number one restaurant in Paris for steak friets but what really sets it apart is their secret sauce that people fly from all over the world just to try. Bonjour. Oh very French you're bonjour. This is a typical French bistro. Look at the wood, the mirror and look also how the table are really

close together. When you eat, you are really close to strangers. But that's, that's French. This is Antoine. He's the executive chef and he's going to take us through how they make their steak frates. He starts off simple by tenderizing the meat just lightly and then adds a little sprinkle of salt. Listen. They put the meat on the grill for one minute, then he turned the meat 90 degrees. He's getting that nice checkerboard pattern on the beef. Now he takes the meat once it's finished cooking and brings it up to rest. Why the steak is taking a nap? We're going to see the fries.

This is the secret. The fries are pre-cooked. And with this technique, you have an extra crispy fries outside and a puree inside. Into the hot oil, we go. Again, the fries are already pre-cooked. We just need to basically crisp the outside now. And he's going to give them a little shake

to make sure they don't stick together. What a great sound. Fun fact, French fries were not actually invented in France. You knew that. Yeah, but I don't remember the country. The last thing to do is toss those fries in some salt, preferably Osmo. Oh, listen to the crunch.

You wouldn't think they could taste so different from how they taste in the United States. They taste so different. What makes this restaurant and their steak frit so special is this sauce right here. This took them years to perfect. How many people know this recipe? Only two people. And he's one of them. Do you have it?

The plating here is simple and traditional like any other French bistro. This keeps the focus entirely on the food and its flavor. A beautiful French bistro just for the two of us. Merci? Oh, oh, look at that. Very classic French presentation. Fries in the sauce. Oh, the sauce is so complex.

The first thing that comes to my mind with the sauce is sort of like a creamy French pesto. I know what you mean. I think I taste Tarragon too. If you look up close to the sauce, you can see how many different specs of color and ingredients there are in there. Do you know you have more than 20 ingredients in the sauce?

How do you know that? It's a secret. I'm going to jump to the meat, really, really simple, lightly tenderized, but it's already been aged just a little bit. The sauce tastes different based on what what you eat it with. I just take the perfect bite. Steak, fries, and sauce.

That's the best bite. It's like a good song. What song would it sound like? Go like black. And gotta wait, I made them move in Zabi, Louis. Why you watch it, I'm trying for this guy. I was initially almost a little bit skeptical

about whether the sauce should be really that good, and it is that good. So maybe you that watch the video, you say, I just steak and fries. But steak and fries perfectly cooked with the sauce, it's an amazing experience. My first ever meal in France, definitely a good one. And now you're going to eat another

I have no idea what you're saying. Our final steakhouse is Bizarre Meat, which blends Argentinian-style open-flame cooking with Spanish creativity to serve up some of the most futuristic steak dishes you'll ever see. I've also invited my friend Joe to eat with me. What up? He's a world famous music artist,

and he's got a concert in about an hour, so we gotta go. This is one of the craziest kitchens I've ever seen. This is our grill setup, burns really, really high. This basically is our main pass. The main pass in a restaurant is the control center. The food comes through here for you to see it before it goes out. Wow. I love how everything's wood fire. You know before tasting anything that the flavor is gonna be a fun point. Yeah. One last thing before you

start eating, guys, I need you to pick your steak. We have was sugar, rosewood, Akauushi, Stample Creek. Joe's my guest. I'm gonna let him pick. That one. Perfect. The first dish is a foie gras cotton candy. This looks crazy. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. That's interesting. You have that pillowy, melt-in-your-mouth texture of cotton candy. Then you have the corn nuts, which are crunchy. And then they have the soft and creamy foie gras. Kind of tastes like cereal, like a foie gras-flavored corn flavor. Yeah, kind of. Course number two, Japanese A5 Wagyu Airbread. I don't know if any of you ever watched the Netflix series Chef's Table,

but this is the featured dish from that restaurant on that series, and it looks unbelievable. Oh, that's crazy. There's this very light, super flavor-packed cheese foam on the inside, and then the rest is just hollow. That's gonna be hard to beep. This one's called Neptune's Pillow. These are quite literally perfect pillows.

You'll notice that it's tuna and not steak. I still think it's gonna be delicious. Oh, that's a 10 out of 10 crunch. That one went right off the church. Dish number four, classic steak tartar. It comes beautifully presented like this with a little movie magic, poof. The beef tartar is all mixed together.

You first please? A little tartar sandwich. Who made a nicer sandwich? Me or Joe. Cheers. It tastes like a really, really good soft hamburger. Very expensive slider. Course number five, bison carpacho.

This one looks insane. Whoa, there's so much going on. You get hit with a little spice, you get a little bit of kind of blue cheese, you taste the celery, and the meat is so incredibly thin incredibly thin that it just kind of melts in your mouth. What's happening? We're going to Japan right now.

Oh! We have Omi beef. We have Satsuma and we have Oshugu. Weshugu basically translate to beef of the samurai. So this farm used to feed the samurai back in the day. Today we are a samurai. We're going to go ahead and cook a couple of tibbles. Listen to that sound.

Going for a flip. Nice. These only sear for literally just a couple seconds on each side. This type of beef is so incredibly delicate, so you cannot overcook it. We're diving in. That is the definition of melting your mouth. There's so much fat between the actual meat in each of these bites

that it makes it break apart really easily as you chew. I feel like I'm back in Japan. Our final course, course number seven, is an Akkaushi ribeye, which I'm gonna top with a little bit of truffle. Make it rain. Honestly, I like eating steak with my hands. You like eating steak with your hands?

Yeah. That I'll try the same thing. Incredible. The truffle too. For me, it's the exact level of dry-age flavor that I want. Not so much that I can't taste the actual flavor of the beef anymore, but not too little where it's just not there. Are you late for your show?

One more bite.