Wagyu restaurants in Minnesota

Twenty-eight Minnesota restaurants publish here and four clear the full sourcing standard, which leaves twenty-four resting on a menu claim. Fifteen Minnesota cities hold a published listing and none of them has two verified rooms, so Minnesota has no city page and this is the state's only location page.

Minnesota is a steakhouse state and nothing else. All four verified rooms describe themselves that way, which among states with four or more documented rooms is true only here and in Wisconsin. There is no verified omakase counter and no verified yakiniku grill anywhere in Minnesota, and the Wagyu arrives as a plated steak or inside a tasting flight rather than over a grill at the table.

The four are properly spread out. P.S. Steak in Minneapolis, The St. Paul Grill across the river, Prime up in Blaine and Gianni's out in Wayzata, which is one documented room each in four different places. Minneapolis publishes ten Wagyu rooms and has documented one of them, and that is the widest gap between advertising and evidence anywhere in the state.

One Minnesota room holds a licence on the official Kobe register and that room had Kobe on the menu, so the state's single licence and single badge belong to the same venue: Prime in Blaine, the only top-tier room in Minnesota. Two of the four name their supply, P.S. Steak citing Winterfrost and Gianni's citing Creekstone Farms, and The St. Paul Grill is the one room in the state to document a named Japanese brand rather than only a grade. Two published Minnesota Wagyu farms sit in this directory and no Minnesota kitchen cites either of them.