Whom You Know: TASTY TIDBITS: Japonais

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

TASTY TIDBITS: Japonais

Japonais, one of the most adored Chicago restaurants, captivates New Yorkers and travelers with its location in the Gramercy Park area. Japonais New York charms and seduces by the restaurant’s distinctive warm atmosphere, its services and signature Japanese cuisine that seamlessly fuses innovative presentations. Whom You Know is pleased to kick off our coverage of Japonais!

Chicago Sun Times restaurant critic Pat Bruno, commented, "Japonais is a culinary experience that blends immense enjoyment with sturdy savoir faire. The food is the enjoyment; the service is the savoir-faire. This potent mix is jazzed up even more by the subtle high energy of the space." We will see what Peachy Deegan thinks! As you know in Tasty Tidbits, we introduce you to restaurants and inform you of them.

Renowned restaurateurs and partners at Japonais in Chicago, Miae Lim, Rick Wahlstedt and Jeffrey Beers (prominent restaurant and hotel designer) join forces once again to bring Japonais to New York City’s culinary landscape. Created entirely for the guest, from the guest’s perspective, Japonais brings dining as it should be to Manhattan.

“As a New Yorker, I am delighted and proud to finally bring Japonais to my hometown,” says Wahlstedt. “Both Chicago and New York City are fueled and inspired by great food, and discerning diners. I think that Japonais is a natural fit for the New York City dining scene.”

Japonais offers the best of both worlds – signature sushi and cold appetizers by world-renowned Sushi Chef/Partner Jun Ichikawa and hot appetizers and entrées by celebrated Chef /Partner Gene Kato (both from Japonais in Chicago). Upon completing intensive culinary training in Japan, Chef Kato returned to the U.S. and worked as Chef de Cuisine at Mimosa Grill (Charlotte, N.C.) and as Chef de Cuisine for Upstream, based in Charleston, S.C. While at Upstream, Kato met Miae Lim, and the two agreed to launch Ohba together and later Japonais. Executive Chef Sushi Chef and Partner, Ichikawa is known for his ability to blend years of training with a naturally creative eye resulting in some of the highest quality, most innovative sushi in the country. A position with Honda Restaurant (Kanda, Japan) resulted in the Chef moving to the United States to study under the Master Chef at Honda Chicago. A stint at Hatsuhana followed where he met Lim, and the two developed the Mirai Sushi concept and later Japonais. Together the chefs blend two sophisticated, innovative culinary styles creating a menu that is beautifully composed with the guests’ needs and preferences in mind. Classic French technique is married with clean and simple Japanese ingredients, as the chefs take a progressive approach to create a signature menu with “wow factor” and sex appeal. Whom You Know would like to review this up and comer as it hits Manhattan!

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