Celebrated Japanese chef Tateru Yoshino, who manages four French restaurants in Paris and Tokyo, all of which have received stars from the French guidebook Michelin, is gearing up to open another restaurant in Tokyo this spring to serve French cuisine with a "Japanese taste."
"I'd like to make the place like an atelier where I can try and experiment with a new way of cooking," Yoshino said, adding he will try to come up with a new type of cuisine based on ingredients used in Japanese cooking. "I want to serve dishes sort of like Japanese cuisine and sort of like French cuisine."
The 58-year-old spent years in France mastering the French culinary arts and running the critically acclaimed restaurant Stella Maris in Paris, before opening the eponymous restaurant Tateru Yoshino Shiba in Tokyo in 2003.