Wagyu restaurants in Miami, Florida

Every verified Wagyu restaurant in Miami is licensed to buy Kobe. Thirteen of its restaurants publish here and five clear the full sourcing standard, and all five of those hold a licence on the official Kobe Beef Association registry. No other city covered reaches that, and only a handful of cities have as many licensed rooms in absolute terms.

Four of the five carry the Certified Kobe badge, which needs the licence and Kobe on the menu we verified. The fifth holds the licence and was serving other Japanese beef when we last read it, which is normal and not a mark against it. Four of the five are also top-tier listings on this site, so this is a small list where nearly everything on it is certified rather than merely documented.

The other thing to notice is what kind of rooms these are. All five are steakhouses, and no two are the same kind of steakhouse: an Argentine grill, a Korean steakhouse with a MICHELIN star, a Japanese steakhouse, a seafood and steak room, and a classic American one. In most cities a Wagyu list splits along format lines, into steakhouses on one side and Japanese rooms on the other. In Miami the format is constant and the cuisine around it changes, so the choice is less about how the beef is cooked than about what it is served with.

It is expensive without exception. Every verified room here prices in the top tier, with no cheaper entry point of the kind Philadelphia or New York offers. The eight remaining published venues advertise Wagyu without documenting where it came from, and are listed separately below.