Izanami (at Ten Thousand Waves)
Santa Fe, NM · Japanese
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Why it's listed
Izanami is the izakaya restaurant at the Ten Thousand Waves Japanese-style spa resort above Santa Fe, serving seasonal small plates alongside sushi, sashimi and skewers grilled over Japanese binchotan charcoal. Its signature Wagyu service is ishiyaki, thin medallions guests cook themselves on a hot stone, offered as Miyazaki A5 from Japan, Morgan Ranch beef from Nebraska, or a side-by-side tasting of both. Wagyu also appears as a Nebraska skewer on the anticucho, as nigiri, and at lunch in the Nami burger. The kitchen publishes its sourcing and will bring the Japanese loin's authentication certificate to the table.
Wagyu on the menu
- Japanese
- Brand / Prefecture
- Miyazaki
- Grade
- A5
- Producer
- Not listed
- American
- Brand / Prefecture
- Not listed
- Grade
- Not listed
- Producer
- Morgan Ranch (Nebraska)
| Origin | Brand / Prefecture | Grade | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | Miyazaki | A5 | Not listed |
| American | Not listed | Not listed | Morgan Ranch (Nebraska) |
Menu rotates This kitchen changes its menu, so the cuts above may vary by night. Confirm with the venue before booking around a particular one.
The experience
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Sourced from
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Evidence on file
“grilled -- "wagyu beef ishiyaki / premium beef to cook at your table on a 500 degree hot stone. smoked shoyu, sesame miso sauce, jacobsen salt / miyazaki A5 (japan) 54. morgan ranch (nebraska) 29. / experience a tasting of both wagyu types 42."”
tenthousandwaves.com “"anticucho / wagyu steak (nebraska) 36. / colorado lamb 42. / mix 39. / two meat skewers grilled over bincho "japanese charcoal", miso yogurt, curry roasted cauliflower, red kosho anticucho sauce, red oinion escabeche, shiso" -- and under nigiri: "wagyu 14."”
tenthousandwaves.com “"Three decades ago a ranch in Nebraska began cross-breeding native American cattle with Japanese wagyu gene stock. Morgan Ranch was the first, and remains the best purveyor of American wagyu--that's where we source our domestic beef." ... "Choose from pure Japanese Miyazaki A5...”
tenthousandwaves.com
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“"Each A5 loin is authenticated. Your cow's birth certificate can be brought to your table. For an experience you won't find many places outside Japan, come to izanami for wagyu tonight." A caption on the same page reads "A loin of A5 Miyazaki".”
tenthousandwaves.com “"nami burger 18. / morgan ranch (nebraska) 6 oz. wagyu beef, asadero cheese, caramelized onions. shichimi fries, house made buns. (gf buns available) + beeler's bacon 4. + avocado 4." The lunch PDF repeats the ishiyaki line: "miyazaki A5 (japan) 54. morgan ranch (nebraska) 29."”
tenthousandwaves.com “First-party menu index linking the current documents as "Lunch", "Dinner", "Sake" and "Wine, Cocktails, & Other Beverages", each with cache-buster ?v=1786311724 pointing to Dinner_Menu_07_30.pdf and Lunch_Menu_07_30.pdf.”
tenthousandwaves.com “"izanami restaurant / lunch 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm / Wednesday - Monday / dinner 5:00 pm - 8:45 pm / happy hour 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, every day except Tuesday / late night happy hour 9:00 - 10:00 pm"”
tenthousandwaves.com
Quoted from the sources checked when this listing was verified.
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Common questions
- Does Izanami (at Ten Thousand Waves) serve real Wagyu?
- Yes, and it says where the beef comes from. Izanami (at Ten Thousand Waves) in Santa Fe, NM publishes enough detail on its own materials to identify the Wagyu it sells, which is the standard this directory calls verified, last checked on August 9, 2026. That means a named Japanese brand or prefecture with its grade, an American breed status with a named producer, or an Australian producer with a marbling score.
- What kind of Wagyu does Izanami (at Ten Thousand Waves) serve?
- Its menu discloses Miyazaki A5 and Morgan Ranch (Nebraska). 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.
- How was Izanami (at Ten Thousand Waves) verified?
- By reading the venue's own current material, its menu, its site or its ordering system, and quoting the line that names the beef. Reviews, aggregator copies and press mentions are not accepted as the source, because they go stale silently. Verification is assisted by AI and every claim is stored with the page it came from, last confirmed on August 9, 2026.