Why John Tesar's Knife Will Serve Steak By The Inch

As John Tesar's modern steakhouse Knife ramps up to open any day now at the Hotel Palomar, much attention has been given to one particular menu item: The 240-day dry-aged steak, which comes bearing a hefty-sounding menu price of $80 an inch. As it turns out, though, an inch of steak is actually a more generous portion than you might imagine — as the chef explains to Eater National, a one-inch serving with the bone intact actually weighs around 24 ounces and can "probably feed four people." But first, it's got to spend 8 months inside a $50,000 custom-built meat hanging box that must be tended to daily — which almost makes $80 an inch sound like a relative bargain?

Eater National has more on the aging process and why Tesar decided to price the meat by the inch.>>>