PHILADELPHIA - Saté Kampar’s Ange Branca is hosting a series of seven-course Japanese Wagyu dinners throughout December at Cake & Joe, located at 1401 E. Moyamensing Avenue in Philadelphia’s Pennsport neighborhood. The dinners will be held every Sunday through Wednesday from December 11th through the 28th, including Christmas Day.

The BYOB dinners will feature one seating per night, with tables being seated between 6 and 8:15 p.m., and cost $200 per person, including tax. Bookings can be made at http://satekampar.page.link/reserve. A payment request will be sent, and reservations are confirmed only after full payment.

Ange Branca is the first chef in the City of Philadelphia to make a multi-course dinner featuring Japanese Wagyu. The Wagyu used is of the coveted Mt. Fuji Beef brand. Cattle of this brand are raised at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan and grow up drinking natural mineral water from Japan’s most iconic mountain.

Japanese Wagyu is not only genetically different from American Wagyu, but it also benefits from meticulous husbandry and a long history of selective breeding. As a result, Japanese Wagyu is significantly more marbled, has a silky mouth feel, and emits a unique aroma called Wagyu-ko. Each Japanese Wagyu animal comes with its 10-digit traceability number, which can be used to trace every detail of the animal’s life from birth to slaughter and lineage information. No other food product in the world has this level of transparency.

Chef Ange's meat comes from a heifer (Wagyu meat from heifers is considered the best, so they are generally more expensive than steer or cows) graded A5, BMS 10. She carefully curated dishes feature rare cuts of Japanese Wagyu rarely found on American plates, including chuck roll, clod, and shank. In addition to proving that with Japanese Wagyu, non-prime cuts can be just as good, if not better, Chef Ange’s creative dishes also showcase versatile applications of Wagyu in a diverse range of cuisines.