Verified location guide
Wagyu restaurants in Tennessee
8 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Tennessee. 23 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.
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Wagyu disclosed in Tennessee
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Eating Wagyu in Tennessee
Thirty-one Tennessee restaurants publish here and eight clear the full sourcing standard, with twenty-three resting on a menu claim. Five of the eight are in Nashville, and the rest are single rooms in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis.
Tennessee is the largest state in the directory with no top-tier room at all. Every one of its eight verified listings sits at the second tier, meaning each documents its Wagyu but none does it with both the named origin and the grade that the top tier asks for. That is a statement about what these menus print rather than about how the beef eats.
What they do print, more often than most, is a producer. Six of the eight name a ranch or a brand: Stone Axe at a Chattanooga Korean steakhouse, Mishima Reserve and Rangers Valley together at one Nashville room, Snake River Farms and Black Opal at another in Memphis. The one worth singling out is Sixteen Peaks Cattle Company of Louisville, Tennessee, which is the rare case of a Tennessee kitchen naming a Tennessee herd.
Kobe is simply absent. Zero Tennessee rooms hold a registry licence and zero carry the Certified Kobe badge, so the word on a menu in this state is one we have not been able to match against the official register. The steakhouse remains the default format at five of the eight, and the ribeye and the striploin are named equally often, five times each.
Verified restaurants
8 venues
Bourbon Steak - Nashville
Nashville, TN
Harvest - Land, Vine, and Sea
Knoxville, TN
Kayne Prime
Nashville, TN
Momotaro Nashville
Nashville, TN
Oak Steakhouse Nashville
Nashville, TN
Porch and Parlor
Memphis, TN
Prime + Proper
Nashville, TN
Zaya 1943 Korean Steakhouse
Chattanooga, TN
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.
23 venues
Agave & Rye - Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN
Coastal Fish Company
Memphis, TN
Eddie V's Prime Seafood
Nashville, TN
Fin-Two Japanese Ale House
Knoxville, TN
Fire + Smoke Southern Prime
Knoxville, TN
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
Nashville, TN
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Fogo de Chao - Nashville
Nashville, TN
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse
Nashville, TN
Lonesome Dove Western Bistro - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Noko
Nashville, TN
O-Ku
Nashville, TN
Perry's Steakhouse & Grille - Cool Springs
Franklin, TN
Q Korean Steakhouse
Knoxville, TN
Sora at Skye Lounge
Nashville, TN
Southern Social
Germantown, TN
St. John's Restaurant
Chattanooga, TN
STK Steakhouse
Nashville, TN
Sunda New Asian
Nashville, TN
Sushi Row
Nashville, TN
Two Ten Jack
Nashville, TN
Virago
Nashville, TN
Zen Japanese Fine Cuisine
Germantown, TN
Wagyu in Tennessee, answered
- How many verified Wagyu restaurants are in Tennessee?
- 8 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Tennessee, plus 23 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 Tennessee?
- None of our verified Tennessee 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 Tennessee restaurants serve?
- Listed Tennessee venues disclose American, Australian and Japanese Wagyu, including named origins such as Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Carrara, Stone Axe. Each listing states what the venue's own menu discloses, plus the grade or producer where one is named.
- Which cities in Tennessee have verified Wagyu restaurants?
- Nashville has at least two verified venues, which is the threshold for a city page of its own. Verified rooms elsewhere in Tennessee are listed on this page rather than under a city.
- How are Tennessee 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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