Joshua K.
Yelp
For Valentine's Day 2022, we were looking to try something new and unique. Craving steak but having been to the usual steakhouse suspects many times, we decided to give The Wagyu Bar a dry. Located on Coral Way next to Meat N' Bone, this spot is perfect for the person who is seeming a more "casual" steakhouse dining experience. If you are looking for very unique cuts and high quality food but don't want to dress to the nines, then this is your spot! Since it was an unusually cool Valentine's Day for South Florida standards, we decided to sit outside at one of their several outdoor tables. Each couple received a rose to take home-- a very nice touch for the holiday!
After we were seated, our sever came over to us and explained the different grades of meat and cuts they have on their menu. They have so many varieties of meat available, I encourage you to try something new here, whether that's Wagyu, a Wagyu-Angus Cross, Japanese A5 or something else! For appetizer, we opted to share the Wagyu Beef Carpaccio and split a Sakejito to drink (part of their menu has some Japanese influence, including a sake menu and some sake-forward cocktails). The Sakejito for $9 was excellent. It tastes exactly how you would expect a sake-mojito combination to taste. Very refreshing! As we're finishing our Sakejito, we were able to go ahead and order our main courses: the 10 oz. Wagyu Flap Steak (Medium) and the 14 oz. Wagyu-Angus Cross New York Strip (Medium Rare) l. So far, so good!
Now, this is where things get unusual for a restaurant of this caliber. Time passes and several families that came in after us were getting their main courses. We hadn't even reviewed our appetizer yet! We checked on the status of everything with our waiter, who assured us that everything was on its way. Our waters were kept full through this entire wait time. Finally, after over an hour of waiting our main courses come out, but not our Wagyu Beef Carpaccio appetizer. Our Waiter profusely apologized and took discretion to comp it on our bill. Somewhere along the way, someone must've forgotten the appetizer we ordered. It eventually came to our table as we were digging into our delicious meat entrées. We were able to split both entrees items. The Wagyu-Angus New York Strip was mouth watering good and we agreed the Wagyu Flap Steak was the best Flap Steak we had ever tasted.
After splitting the 2 steaks and the appetizer, I do not know how we had room for dessert, but we did! I highly recommend that you check out The Wagyu Bar's selection of gourmet, alcoholic ice cream. We had chocolate truffle ice cream that was infused with Macallan 12 Scotch. It was so delicious! Did not know I was missing that in my life!
Overall, The Wagyu Bar is a great spot to eat "casually" and try out some very interesting cuts of meat. The wait for our food was a bit too long and put a damper on our Valentine's Day dinner at first, which our server luckily recognized and rectified by comping the appetizer on the bill. I do not know who forgot, but at least it was fixed. We will be back to try out other items and believe the negative part of this experience does not happen again! I will blame it on the fact that it was a holiday, after all.