Wagyu restaurants in Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the largest Wagyu market in this directory. Thirty-eight of its restaurants publish here and nineteen of them clear the full sourcing standard, second only to New York among the cities covered here and ahead of Chicago, Houston and Las Vegas. What separates the two cities is not size, it is what the verification rests on. Las Vegas documents imported prefectures and prices them by the ounce. Dallas, more than anywhere else, documents the name of a ranch.

Eight of those nineteen name a specific Texas ranch on the menu we read. Three cite Rosewood Ranches in Ennis, which crosses fullblood Japanese Wagyu bulls over Black Angus and sells nothing directly to the public, so a restaurant table is the only place most people will ever encounter it. Three more cite HeartBrand Beef in Harwood, and those three are exactly the three Dallas rooms carrying a Certified Akaushi badge. Akaushi is the Red Wagyu strain rather than the Japanese Black behind most A5, and every Akaushi claim verified in this city traces back to that one ranch. The pattern is not a local accident: three in ten of every published farm in this directory is a Texas operation.

Two of the nineteen hold a licence on the official Kobe registry, and both had Kobe on the menu we read, so both carry the badge. Against ten of sixteen in Las Vegas, that makes Kobe a two-room proposition here rather than the citywide one it is there. Four of the nineteen sell Wagyu by the ounce, three serve it on hot stone and two run an omakase, so the range of formats is narrower than the headline count suggests. This is a steakhouse city: eleven of the eighteen are steakhouses carrying a Wagyu line rather than rooms built around one, and seventeen of the eighteen price in the top tier. The twenty remaining published venues advertise Wagyu on a current menu without showing where it came from, and they are listed separately below for that reason.