Verified location guide
Wagyu restaurants in Washington
18 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Washington. 61 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 Washington
Origins: American · Australian · Japanese
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Eating Wagyu in Washington
Seventy-nine Washington restaurants publish here and eighteen clear the full sourcing standard, with sixty-one resting on a menu claim. Every one of the eighteen documents Japanese beef, which makes Washington the largest all-Japanese state in the directory. It briefly was not. A Seattle room with a whole-animal butchery programme named a Washington ranch and cleared the standard in August 2026, then went back to the menu-claim tier on review, once it turned out the ranch published its fullblood claim about the herd it breeds rather than about the beef it sells.
It is also the only state that holds Kobe registry licences and shows no Kobe badge at all. Two Washington rooms are licensed. Zero were serving Kobe when we last looked, so the badge is absent here for want of it on the menu rather than for want of a licence, which is exactly why the badge is a conjunction and not a lookup.
Washington spreads further than most states its size. Three cities clear the two-verified threshold, Seattle with seven rooms, Bellevue with four and Tacoma with two, and only thirty-nine percent of the verified list sits in Seattle. Chicago and Las Vegas both concentrate near ninety.
A few producers do a great deal of the work. Three El Gaucho rooms, in Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, all cite Davis Family Cattle Company, and Snake River Farms turns up at four more. The cut named most often is the tenderloin, which is genuinely unusual: every other state of this size leads with the ribeye or the striploin.
Verified restaurants
18 venues
The Metropolitan Grill
Seattle, WA
Asadero Prime - Ballard
Seattle, WA
Asadero Prime - Kent
Kent, WA
Ascend Prime Steak & Sushi
Bellevue, WA
Cafe Juanita
Kirkland, WA
Cuerno Bravo Prime Steakhouse
Tacoma, WA
Daniel's Broiler - Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union
Seattle, WA
El Gaucho - Seattle
Seattle, WA
El Gaucho - Tacoma
Tacoma, WA
El Gaucho - Vancouver
Vancouver, WA
John Howie Steak
Bellevue, WA
Lao Ma Tou Hotpot
Bellevue, WA
Manzoku Izakaya
Seattle, WA
Meet Korean BBQ
Seattle, WA
Shinya Shokudo
Tukwila, WA
Shinya Shokudo - Redmond
Redmond, WA
The Butcher's Table
Seattle, WA
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.
61 venues
#K-Street KBBQ
Redmond, WA
8 Ping Yang
Seattle, WA
Aerlume
Seattle, WA
AQUA by El Gaucho
Seattle, WA
Barolo Ristorante
Seattle, WA
Baron's Sino Kitchen & Bar
Bellevue, WA
Carrello
Seattle, WA
Chan Seattle
Seattle, WA
Cinque Terre
Seattle, WA
D’ La Santa
Seattle, WA
Daniel's Broiler - Downtown Seattle
Seattle, WA
Daniel's Broiler - Leschi
Seattle, WA
El Gaucho - Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
Eldr
Seattle, WA
Fogo de Chao - Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
Fogo de Chao - Lynnwood
Lynnwood, WA
Fogo de Chao - Seattle
Seattle, WA
Grappa
Seattle, WA
Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ - Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
Haerfest
Seattle, WA
Haidilao Hot Pot - Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
Ishoni Yakiniku
Seattle, WA
Itadaki Yakiniku
Bellevue, WA
Jack’s BBQ
Seattle, WA
Wagyu in Washington, answered
- How many verified Wagyu restaurants are in Washington?
- 18 restaurants are verified for disclosed Wagyu sourcing in Washington, plus 61 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 Washington?
- None of our verified Washington 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 Washington restaurants serve?
- Listed Washington venues disclose American, Australian and Japanese Wagyu, including named origins such as Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Mishima Reserve, Ohmi. Each listing states what the venue's own menu discloses, plus the grade or producer where one is named.
- Which cities in Washington have verified Wagyu restaurants?
- Bellevue, Seattle and Tacoma each have at least two verified venues, which is the threshold for a city page of their own. Verified rooms elsewhere in Washington are listed on this page rather than under a city.
- How are Washington 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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