Verified location guide
Wagyu restaurants in Maryland
3 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Maryland. 18 more venues have a menu-confirmed offering without a full authenticity badge.
Verification status, not the total number of listings, determines this page's count and eligibility. Read the methodology.
Data verified throughWagyu disclosed in Maryland
Origins: American · Australian · Japanese
Eating Wagyu in Maryland
Twenty-one Maryland restaurants publish here and three clear the full sourcing standard, which leaves eighteen resting on a menu claim. Nine Maryland cities hold a published listing and not one of them has two documented rooms, so Maryland has no city page and this is the only location page the state gets.
Every documented room in Maryland is a Japanese one, which is true of only one other state in this directory, Connecticut. Two of the three are yakiniku houses, one in Rockville and one in Columbia, and the third is a Japanese room in Baltimore. All three document Japanese A5 beef and not one documents American or Australian, so there is no domestic Wagyu on any Maryland menu we have been able to confirm.
The cut gives the format away. All three rooms name karubi, the short-rib cut off the plate that a tabletop grill is built around, and two of them also name the striploin. Two run all-you-can-eat service, which in a yakiniku room means a fixed price and a grill rather than a buffet, and is a format almost nowhere else in the mid-Atlantic documents at this standard.
Zero Maryland rooms hold a licence on the official Kobe register and zero carry the Certified Kobe badge, none of the three reaches the top tier, and not one names a ranch, a farm or a brand anywhere in our records. Baltimore is where the state's gap sits: nine published Wagyu rooms and one documented. A second documented Baltimore room would give Maryland its first city page, and there are eight candidates already listed to read.
Verified restaurants
3 venues
Menu claims only
These venues have a current published Wagyu offering but do not meet the full provenance standard. They carry no authenticity badge and do not count toward this page's verified total.
18 venues
Chart House Prime
Annapolis, MD
Fogo de Chao - Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
Fogo de Chao - National Harbor
Oxon Hill, MD
Fogo de Chao - Towson
Towson, MD
Fogo de Chao (North Bethesda)
North Bethesda, MD
Genki Wagyu Shabu House
Rockville, MD
Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ (Columbia)
Columbia, MD
Hana Sushi (Hampden)
Baltimore, MD
Kura Revolving Sushi Bar - Rockville
Rockville, MD
Monarque
Baltimore, MD
Morton's The Steakhouse (Bethesda)
Bethesda, MD
New Chiu's Sushi
Baltimore, MD
Oregon Grille
Cockeysville, MD
Sotto Sopra
Baltimore, MD
The Bygone
Baltimore, MD
The Food Market - Columbia
Columbia, MD
The Food Market - Hampden
Baltimore, MD
The Ruxton
Baltimore, MD
Wagyu in Maryland, answered
- How many verified Wagyu restaurants are in Maryland?
- 3 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Maryland, plus 18 more with a menu-confirmed offering. Verified and menu-confirmed are separate: the latter means a current first-party menu advertises Wagyu, but the available evidence does not establish full provenance.
- Can you get Kobe beef in Maryland?
- None of our verified Maryland venues currently show a Certified Kobe badge. That means WagyuSpot has not found both an official venue-directory match and a current Kobe menu claim locally; it is not a conclusion about evidence the directory has not reviewed. See the national Kobe list for current matches.
- What kinds of Wagyu do Maryland restaurants serve?
- Listed Maryland venues disclose American, Australian and Japanese Wagyu, including named origins such as Miyazaki. Each listing states what the venue's own menu discloses, plus the grade or producer where one is named.
- Which cities in Maryland have verified Wagyu restaurants?
- No single Maryland city has reached two verified venues yet, which is the threshold for a city page, so this state page is the full list. That is a statement about how the state's verified rooms are spread, not about how much Wagyu it has: Maryland publishes 21 venues in total.
- How are Maryland Wagyu restaurants verified?
- Each venue is checked against current first-party evidence before it publishes. Documented provenance can qualify for verification; menu-only Wagyu claims appear as menu-confirmed without an authenticity badge. Kobe requires both the official registry and Kobe on the current menu.
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