A note on the words: dry-aged beef is aged for weeks in controlled conditions before cooking, which concentrates its flavor and tenderizes it — the house style at this American steakhouse chain. Wagyu is beef from Japan’s own cattle breeds, prized for its heavy marbling, and it’s brought up here mainly as a point of comparison with the dry-aged steak. Caprese is an Italian salad of sliced tomato and mozzarella, usually with basil. A Hakushu highball is whisky and soda made with Suntory’s Hakushu single malt.
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Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Roppongi on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. It has been a while, but back to Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Roppongi! Every so often I get the craving. Dry-aged American steak. Say what you like, it is delicious, and I was looking forward to it!
This time we had the private room right at the back! Rather roomy, as it turns out, and extremely comfortable!
There is a minimum spend on it, so we had better eat plenty!
First, as always, a Hakushu highball!
So this time we started with the seafood platter, and then,
with the bacon and the salad in between, we left it to them to pick out a sensible run of steaks for the number of us.
Here is the seafood platter! Looking as good as ever. This will be the three-person size, I think!
It is an assortment of half a lobster, shrimp and crab meat.
I know perfectly well this is a steakhouse, but you do want the seafood first, do you not.
Delicious ^^
A caprese, I suppose. Thick-cut tomato and mozzarella.
The tomato is very sweet and very good. They are using fine tomatoes here! The milkiness of the mozzarella and the moisture in it are superb too.
Here it is once it has been portioned out for us.
The salad here is good, you know. The bite of the dressing is perfect, and the lettuce is excellent.
And then there is the bacon, which I would argue is good enough to go up against the steak.
The outside is crisp and toasty, but it stays tender, and the juicy fat in it is delicious!
I think this is about four portions’ worth — it does look like the biggest size lol
A proper slab of T-bone, and it looks wonderful!
This one is a double, I think.
We left it to them to bring out something sensible for the number of us, so I am honestly not sure lol
We made sure to have the fried onion rings too.
With the run of dishes that started at the seafood, I was in truth already quite full. Even so, this dry-aged beef is delicious!
It is tender, and the toasted aroma on the outside is irresistible. I used to have an image of American steak as fairly tough, but these days, say American steak and this is the dry-aged sort of thing you picture. Wagyu is tender and delicious in its own way, but with an American steak like this the sense of eating meat!!! is far stronger, and I love it ^^
So — stuffed! Thoroughly satisfied. At the end there was in fact a little I could not finish, and they boxed it up for me to take home, but when I reheated it the next day it was a completely different thing lol It was a hundred times better eaten in the restaurant, so even if you are leaving the ordering to the staff, it may be wise to ask for slightly less ^^
Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Roppongi (Steak / Roppongi Station, Roppongi-itchome Station, Azabu-juban Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.7
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
