Wagyu is a cattle breed similar to Kobe but since it's not raised in Japan, it can't be called Kobe. It's a high, high quality beef. Well marbled, rather luscious. I've not had it, due to the fact that I'm not independently wealthy. Heard it's really good!

I've had Kobe beef it is melt in your mouth tender and extremely flavorful. I had it free and never paid for it. I would not because I am not as big a beef fan as I once was, my husband might on a very special and rare occasion. Now if it was seafood related, lobster, crab etc then you might get me lol.

Love Kobe, but it rarely fits my budget sense and my tastes don't require it even if I do enjoy it. Truthfully, we like chuck eye steaks grilled and served with au jus - any friends I've served them to were very surprised to find they are chuck and have begun buying them too. I honestly can't distinguish them from rib eye and at a few dollars less per pound. Tender and flavorful, budget friendly.

Top Foods (Haggen) will offer (sometimes) the Canadian equivalent to Kobe beef, just a very few packages at a time and it's ranged from approx. $15 to about $28/lb depending on the cut. I tried the sirloin which is a steak I don't care much about for the lower end of the price range and it was wonderful.

We don't eat many lean cuts unless a pot roast, beef soup, or something I've pressure cooked. We tend to eat smaller steaks, not plate sized portions, and both have great cholesterol levels so far... We're not kids, either.

Wagyu beef filet was priced at $99.00 at Christmas . Kobe hot dogs go for $25.00 in restaurants on Long Island in the Hamptons. Do not plan to try either of these items. Once you have been exposed to prices around here and NYC nothing is surprising.

All beef seems expensive to me. Good thing we no longer eat the huge portions of old. One of our markets has a Tuesday promotion: Three Buck Chuck. It's regularly priced at almost $6/lb, but is good meat, ground right there daily. I prefer chuck to round for flavor; don't like ground sirloin.

I recently paid $9.99/lb. for rib eye steaks at *Costco*! Ouch.

I've had Kobe too and if you love beef, you will think you are in heaven...

Kobe and Wagyu taste more like the stakes you used to get years ago from natural grass fed cows. We buy it a few times per year when our local market has it. I prefer spending the money on the kobe/wagyu at home, than going out to dinner at a mid priced restaurant.

I agree with Jasdip. Never. I wouldn't pay that much for beef. I don't care how good it is. I'd rather eat shrimp....and I won't pay for them either.

We love the chuck eye steaks as well. In the past I could get a large tray of them in the stores, apparently those did very well because now they only sell 2 or 3 per pack and of course it's higher per pound. Right now saving our pennies to get a 1/4 cow from the Amish in Shipshewaana, IN this fall. May also try to get a 1/2 pig. I hate buying meat in the stores.

My answer is also NEVER!

Since it was a stretch for me to buy 3-4 pounds of ribeye steaks (highly marbled with fat) at $27 a week or two ago, I'm going to say never. But I've no interest in finding out "how the other half eats", so even if I had the $$$, I doubt I'd buy it then. Never.

I would rather pay big money for something that I couldn't make than snob ingredients. I could see indulging in kobe at a very fancy meal out, but not at home where I can make very good food with cheap cuts, let alone the "good" ones.

Point of comparison, I found a listing for the average price of beef in 1965 which said it was $0.82/lb. which is $6.17 in today's money. 1965 was well before the price of beef shot up in the early 1970's.

I'm not a fan of steak, but we get nice ribeyes occasionally at the local grocer. Tenderloin is an extravagance that we also occasionally enjoy. I can see us buying Wagyu or Kobe for a very special meal.

Do they massage the Wagyu cattle the same as the Japanese Kobe get? I'd rather spend the money to get a massage for myself.