The Organic Butcher of Bethesda
Online store and physical storefront
Tier 3 · Wagyu-Forward What the tiers mean
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This listing's current published materials advertise Wagyu, but the offering does not meet our full verification standard for provenance. It carries no authenticity badge; undisclosed details remain explicitly unverified.
Authenticity flags
- The A5 Wagyu ribeye is described only as imported from Japan. No prefecture, brand or producer is named, and the listing does not say that grading paperwork or an individual identification number ships with the order. If you want to know which Japanese brand you are buying, or want the certificate, ask before ordering.
Why it's listed
A traditional full-service butcher on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, sibling to the McLean shop, selling true Japanese A5 Wagyu ribeye by the pound alongside organic beef, poultry and sustainable seafood. Orders can be picked up in store, delivered locally, or shipped.
Real A5, sold by the pound
This is a full-service butcher on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, sibling to a shop across the river in McLean, and its Japanese Wagyu is a ribeye sold by the pound alongside organic beef, poultry and seafood. Its own listing describes it as true Japanese Wagyu, A5, imported from Japan.
Selling A5 by the pound rather than as a fixed portion is unusual and it is a genuine convenience: it lets a buyer take three ounces per person, which is the sensible amount, instead of committing to a whole steak. The wide price range on the listing follows from that rather than indicating different products.
Grade only, and what grade leaves out
A5 is the top of the Japanese scale and it is a real, checked outcome, so the claim here is honest as far as it goes. It goes less far than most shoppers assume. A is a yield grade and 5 is the quality score, and both describe how a carcass was assessed rather than where it came from.
There is no prefecture, no brand and no producer on this listing, and no statement that grading paperwork or the animal's identification number ships with the order. A5 from Kagoshima, from Miyazaki and from a prefecture nobody markets are all A5, and they are not the same beef at the same price. If any of that matters, ask before ordering; a butcher that has the box in the back can usually read the label on it.
A dead link that looks like a Kobe claim
One practical warning for anyone checking this shop. Search results still surface an old address on this domain that reads as a Kobe beef collection, left over from a previous shopping platform. It returns nothing, the live site is built differently, and the current A5 listing mentions Kobe nowhere.
So there is no Kobe claim here to evaluate. It is a stale URL rather than a statement, and it is worth saying out loud because a dead tag in a search result is easy to mistake for a live page and impossible for the shop to remove from someone else's index.
Storefront
- 7925 Old Georgetown RdBethesda, MD
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Common questions
- Does The Organic Butcher say which part of Japan its A5 comes from?
- No. The listing gives the A5 grade and says the beef is imported from Japan, with no prefecture, brand or producer named and no statement that grading paperwork travels with the order. Ask at the shop if you want to know which Japanese brand you are buying.
- Does this shop sell Kobe beef?
- No. An old collection address on its domain still appears in search results and reads like a Kobe page, but it returns nothing and the live A5 listing does not mention Kobe. There is no Kobe claim to check.