In Metairie, chef Huy Pham spun his obsession with Japanese cuisine into Yakuza House (2740 Severn Ave.), a restaurant that upped the local sushi game with artistically dressed nigiri and platters of hand rolls.
Now he has a new restaurant in the works, where sushi will be part of the menu but the format will be much different from a traditional sushi bar. Wagyu steak will be prominent, but don’t picture a conventional steakhouse either.
Kintsugi by Yakuza House is now taking shape at 3814 Magazine St., the address that was previously home to Dakar NOLA before that Senegalese tasting menu restaurant moved to its new location. Pham hopes to open Kintsugi sometime in January.
A centerpiece of the menu will be Wagyu steak served in jubako boxes, or multi-tiered, stackable bento boxes that present a full-meal platter of flavors, like a deluxe rice bowl…