Squid Is the New Steak at Austin’s Aba

At Austin’s Aba, Chef CJ Jacobson makes squid the center-of-the-plate star with a pomegranate seed-bedecked grilled squid steak. “It’s an old-school ingredient I wanted to bring back. You don’t see it too often on menus these days, and I wanted to prepare it in a cool, new way,” says the chef, who was inspired by fried squid steak at oceanside Napua Restaurant in Hawaii.

For his...