Wagyu restaurants in West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach has one of only two Certified Kobe rooms in this directory priced below the top tier. Three of its restaurants publish here and two clear the full sourcing standard, and the one carrying the Certified Kobe badge runs a butcher counter alongside the dining room. Seventy-six of the seventy-eight certified Kobe rooms on this site are top-tier; this is one of the two that are not.

That combination explains itself. A restaurant that also sells raw beef buys whole primals rather than portioned steaks, which lowers its cost per pound and gives it cuts a steakhouse would never carry. Doing that with Kobe, the most tightly controlled beef in the world, means the licence is being used for volume rather than as a trophy line on a tasting menu.

The badge itself is a conjunction: the room holds a licence on the official Kobe Beef Association registry, which is standing permission to buy, and Kobe was on the menu we verified. Both halves are needed, because a licence alone says nothing about what is in the case this week.

The second verified room is a Japanese restaurant running an omakase at a chef's counter, where the Wagyu arrives as a course in a sequence rather than as a steak. Between a butcher counter and an omakase counter, this small list covers the two most interesting ways to buy this beef and skips the conventional steakhouse entirely. The one remaining published venue advertises Wagyu without documenting where it came from.