Love, Makoto (Beloved BBQ)
Washington, DC · Japanese
Dedicated Wagyu house
Tier 3 · Menu claim only What the tiers mean
This listing's current published materials advertise Wagyu, but the offering does not meet our full verification standard for provenance. It carries no authenticity badge; undisclosed details remain explicitly unverified.
Why it's listed
Beloved BBQ is the yakiniku room inside Chef Makoto Okuwa's Capitol Crossing complex, a Michelin-listed Japanese steakhouse with smokeless tabletop grills. Its dedicated Wagyu Beef section sells Japanese A5 strip loin, short rib and chuck roll for the grill, alongside A5 Wagyu sushi, Wagyu fried rice and a $255 Wagyu Tower. The menu names the A5 grade throughout but no prefecture, brand or farm, so it publishes without an authenticity badge.
Wagyu on the menu
- American
- Brand / Prefecture
- Imperial Wagyu
- Grade
- Not listed
- Producer
- Not listed
- Japanese
- Brand / Prefecture
- Not listed
- Grade
- A5
- Producer
- Not listed
| Origin | Brand / Prefecture | Grade | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| American | Imperial Wagyu | Not listed | Not listed |
| Japanese | Not listed | A5 | Not listed |
The experience
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Evidence on file
“Attempted re-read 2026-08-09 and BLOCKED. The menus page is a Webflow shell whose menu iframes carry no src in the served HTML, so the dish lists are injected by script and a plain fetch returns none of them.”
lovemakoto.com
Quoted from the venue's own menu or site. A Wagyu claim on a menu is not the same as documented provenance.
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Common questions
- Does Love, Makoto (Beloved BBQ) serve real Wagyu?
- Its own current menu advertises Wagyu, and that claim was read directly on August 9, 2026. What the menu does not do is say which Wagyu: no prefecture, grade, breed status or producer is published, so the sourcing cannot be checked from outside. That is a gap in what is written down rather than a suggestion that anything is wrong with the beef, and plenty of kitchens buy carefully without printing the details.
- What kind of Wagyu does Love, Makoto (Beloved BBQ) serve?
- Its menu discloses Imperial Wagyu and A5 Japanese. Each of those is taken from the venue's own current materials rather than from a review or a listing site, and the evidence behind it is quoted further down this page.
- Why is Love, Makoto (Beloved BBQ) listed without a Wagyu badge?
- Because a badge here means the sourcing was checked, not that the food is good. This listing is published because the venue genuinely advertises Wagyu on its own current material, and it carries no badge because that material does not say which Wagyu. If the venue publishes the prefecture, grade, breed status or producer, the listing can move.
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