Japanese A5 Wagyu Filet Mignon

Japanese A5 Wagyu Filet MignonOrigin: Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan Grade: A5 (BMS 9) Weight: 8oz Quantity: 1 Filet Mignon The filet mignon is already the most tender cut on any steer but when that steer is an A5 Wagyu from Kagoshima, you're dealing with something categorically different. At BMS 9, the fat marbling in this tenderloin isn't just visual it's structural, woven so deeply into the muscle fibers that the meat practically dissolves under heat. Kagoshima is no accident:

but because of genetics and time

this outside skirt is sold as one full piece — long

You get a real steak experience — a clean

This isn't just a cut

gamey duck and well-marbled heritage pork — then hits them with apple brandy and chunks of potato before cold-smoking the whole thing into something genuinely unlike anything else in your freezer

and flavor intensity that means an 8–9oz portion satisfies in ways a 16oz Choice strip can't

and belly that Spanish butchers historically kept off the menu entirely

~90-110 oz total weight | 10 premium cuts

Kagoshima is no accident: this prefecture won the Japanese Wagyu Olympics (Zenkoku Wagyu Noryoku Kyoshinkai) in 2017

5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²))

tender enough to reward a good sear

that marbling goes from impressive to architectural