Somewhere up on the U Street corridor operates a small restaurant known as the Lost Society. Described as a boutique steakhouse, Lost Society features a drinks and dinner menu with unique items such as roasted bone marrow, root beer-braised short ribs, and a blackened cheddar burger. All these are simply distractions from what the Lost Society seemingly excels at: steaks, and plenty of them. The mastermind behind these gustatory attractions is a young, quiet chef named Joseph Evans, who quite appropriately cheffed in another steakhouse in town, Smith & Wollensky. Thus well-suited for this job, Houston native Evans talks calmly about his life in the kitchen, starting back in his teens, when his mom told her son that he needed a job. “Family friends owned an Italian restaurant,” he said, “and I ended up cooking on line with the owners.”
To further reinforce his cooking interests, Evans notes that not only did his grandmother own a restaurant, but also his dad and his brothers were always cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner together. “My mom didn’t cook much,” he explained. “She is a doctor.”
