Niku X Offers New Prix Fixe Lunch Menu

Niku X, the upscale luxurious Japanese steakhouse on the second floor of the Wilshire Grand Center in downtown Los Angeles, has just launched a new special lunch menu.

The dramatic space opens after entering two huge doors where diners can sit at the long narrow bar and enjoy cocktails and mocktails. The drinks are as innovative as the menu, including a Niku X martini with Wagyu washed Grey Whale gin, vodka and celery root brine bitters; a Sunomono Margarita with tequila, yuzu, pineapple shrub, cucumber, Gochujung Cahmoy and salt; a Ume Raba with Ketel One Grapefruit Rosé, Kaffir lime, umeshu, passionfruit, lemon, ginger beer and bitters and a Matcha Matcha with non-alcoholic gin, Matcha coconut orgeat, lemon, mint and toasted coconut match flakes. Diners are then led to dark wooden booths and tables, spaced widely apart to diffuse noise. The huge dining room is dimly lit with black metal accent walls and gray tiled floors. There are also tiger murals throughout the space as well as huge displays of hanging aging beef.

The new lunch prix fixe menu is only $45 per guest. Diners can choose from three appetizers including the oxtail and Tokyo negi potsticker; a Wagyu tallow potato pave and a beautiful salad with dragon fruit, tomato. Radish and a passion fruit vinaigrette.

The main course is Wagyu steak which is grilled and comes with chili miso sauce, yakiniku sauce and either furikake, hot stone bibimbop or Wagyu fried rice. There is also a nice selection of grilled vegetables.

This special lunch is perfect for a break during the work week or as a stop before seeing a matinee or visiting a museum downtown.

Niku X is located at 900 Wilshire Boulevard on the second floor of Wilshire Grand, reservations at 323.920.0302.