Grilled wagyu beef on horseradish creamed potato with soy buttered shimeji & pickled enoki mushrooms

Wagyu simply means ‘Japanese cattle’ with wa meaning Japan. It must be one of the most expensive, sustainable luxuries in the foodie larder. It’s expensive for many reasons, the most obvious being that there is a lack of high-quality wagyu cattle on the market. You can buy wagyu from many countries, but the best will be from Japan (Kobe beef being the best of the best) with the wagyu from Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand coming along closely behind. The beasts are fattier at the fro