Bringing the sensibilities he gained from his experiences in and around Italy.

Opened Le Petite Tonneau in 2001 in Kudanshita.

He's been coming home to the shop where his parents cooked at since he was young.

Chef Ide was born in 1976 in Shizuoka Prefecture. Having always been good at making things and working with his hands from the time he was young, upon graduating high school, he returned home to inherit his family's soba shop. The more he learned about cooking, the more it appealed to him. He studied hard and steadily began taking on new challenges. In lieu of training elsewhere, he adopted the attitude of always challenging himself to continually learn. Continuing to preserve the flavors created by his parents while adding his own style, he works on creating new flavors he can be proud from here on into the future.

Nothing says Sendai like gyutan (beef tongue)!

Nothing says Sendai like gyutan (beef tongue)! Interested in local ingredients, he took a job at Rikyu where he is now in charge of the grill. His motto is to take high quality ingredients and carefully grill them to perfection. "Grilling gyutan is fairly straightforward, and yet the flavor differs with each chef. I find that fascinating," Takashi remarks, as he affectionately tends the grill.

Dishes created from the heart by a chef who has always loved to "create things."

Born in January 1958 in Gunma Prefecture. The chef, who says he has always liked to "create and complete things", began cooking through a part-time job. After seeing the depth of the art of cooking, he began to seriously pursue becoming a chef. Each dish is carefully prepared from the heart with the thought that "customers will sincerely say that it is delicious."

The chef who protects the Queen Alice flavor.

Born in Kawasaki. After graduating high school, he trained at Kawasaki Nikko Hotel for 7 years before starting work at Queen Alice Ginza. After that, he worked at Queen Alice Reception Hall and then in 1999 he started at Queen Alice Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu, where he works now.

After all, the love of cooking lead to this profession.

Realising his father's greatness and his own culinary aspirations on leaving Hiroshima.

Shinji Umeda was born on March 17th, 1982. He learned much while working a part-time job at a restaurant. The izakaya (Japanese pub) he worked in at that time had an open kitchen, and during everything he did there, from the difficulty of conversing with customers to gaining more knowledge about cooking, he thought to himself "Dad did it like this, and at that time he spoke about this," and the image of his father's face was constantly on his mind. Shinji is currently training at his father's restaurant, studying the culinary arts so that he may one day open his own restaurant full of smiling, satisfied customers.

A Chef, Whose Father Was the Role Model

Mr. Shiowaki was born on March 23rd, 1976 in Saitama Prefecture. Because his parents were running a Chinese restaurant as he grew up, cooking was a familiar activity from a young age. Helping his parents with the work was his daily duty after coming back from school. After graduating from high school, he entered a culinary institute and started his career as a cook. Mr. Shiowaki is now a veteran at "Dumplings and Chinese Mamafufu", with eleven years of experience under his belt.

Carefree with fun, delicious food.

He was born on February 1st, 1958, in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. After twelve years experience in four different restaurants, he opened Restaurant Mecante in his hometown of Funabashi. Always ambitious, during his days off he visits other restaurants to study them. With a love of Italian cooking, our chef has created a restaurant with a comfortable atmosphere anyone can enjoy, and is always striving to improve.

Deeply impressed by the Italians' service and delicious food

Born in 1974 in Tottori, the chef decided to pursue this path while visiting Italy and being drawn to its delicious cuisine and friendly people. After graduating from a culinary school, he entered an Italian restaurant. In 1998, he joined "Vino Hirata" and became head chef in 2009. In May, 2010, he became an owner chef.

Cuisine to be shared with guests that is the culmination of our chef's life experiences

Our chef was born in Mexico in January, 1967. In 1983 he began working at "Crown Plaza Holiday Inn" in Mexico, after which he went on to work in top hotels in America, Switzerland, Japan, and Egypt. Since 2010 he has been head chef at Conrad Tokyo, where he supervises "Bar and Lounge Twenty-Eight".

I entered the food world after a chance encounter with the boss.

Originally, Mr. Ikeda said he enjoyed customer service. While he was doing some other job, he met the boss of "Sumibi Yakitori Kirishima" and became interested in the food world. After that, he was invited by the boss to manage the restuarant together.

A promising young chef who polished his skills under the guidance of one of the masters of creative Japanese cooking, Rokusaburo Michiba.

The son of the owner of a Japanese restaurant named 'Ampuku', he grew up with an intimate connection to food and a fascination for cooking. He took his first step on the culinary road at the age of 19, when he joined a 'kaiseki' banquet restaurant in Gifu as a chef, and later refined his skills further at Poisson Rokusaburo in Tokyo's Akasaka. He was also involved in planning the launch of the New York branch of the restaurant 'Ninja' during his time as a trainee chef. He developed a reputation for creating dishes which are subtle and elegant, yet stick unfalteringly to their principles. After returning to Japan, deciding that he wanted "to open an affordable restaurant for ordinary people, just like my father"; he opened his own 'udon' noodle restaurant, the 'Ampuku' which he still runs to this day.

He is a chef that is devoted to drawing out the the flavor of finequality ingredients through flamebroiliing.

He was born in 1972. After graduating high school, he first started cooking Japanese cuisine. Starting his training from scratch, he was lucky enough to meet a respectable boss, who put him through rigorous training, day in and day out, allowing him to blossom into a chef. After that, he got his feet wet while working in a restaurant and then became the head griller at Sakagura Kura. He says that the most important things in his job are making sure that all the ingredients procured by the shop are first-rate and flavorful, can have that flavor drawn out through flame-broiling, and ensuring that customers savor every moment of tasting them.

He pours 100% of his effort into every skewer to offer you his best every time.

Born in 1976, a native of Hokkaido's Muroran City. After working at a pub as a part-time job, he decided to enter the world of the culinary arts. He worked at a pub in Sapporo for almost ten years, were he learned how to manage food preparation and instruct staff - the whole operation of a successful restaurant. In 2004, he returned to his hometown of Muroran and began working at "Yakitori no Ippei Main Store." He tells us that "there's no way you could get this kind of quality at a cheap yakitori joint - my motto is to cook every single skewer to delicious perfection before I offer it to my customers."

A chef who displays the virtues of Indian cuisine, while also looking for ways to match its flavors to Japanese tastes.

It has been six years since Chef Sawana, the owner's younger brother, came to Japan. He became the chef with the hope that "the Japanese people can enjoy the taste of Indian home cooking." Chef Sawana is in charge of tandoori and naan. By making spiciness levels adjustable and so forth, he continues to refine his dishes to suit the Japanese palate.

To make food that can make people happy - that is where this chef comes from

She was born in Fukui prefecture. Her turning point to enter culinary school came when she was working as a cabin assistant in an airline company, and the food she cooked made her husband happy. After graduating, she began training at "Monde Cafe" in Shinjuku, and subsequently polished her skills at "Au Gamin de Tokio" in Shirogane, under the guidance of chef Takemasa Kinoshita. In 2009, she opened "Morceau" together with her sommelier husband. Her homemade bread is a culmination of what she learned about making bread over the course of a year, and has garnered much popularity.

Our whole-hearted hope is that you will eat our delicious food and smile

Ever since Mr. Satou was a child he enjoyed food and always loved watching people smile and enjoy themselves as they ate. Thanks to his father, who ran a butcher shop, he was strongly influenced to want to see people enjoy delicious food. He succeeded his father in his butchering business and hormone-manufacturing business, and working there for 25 years he acquired a lot of know-how. At the age of 46 he stepped into the food industry for real, setting up his own shop, and after that opened "Sakura". It's now been over 15 years since the restaurant opened, and he's still doing his best to make sure his customers are happy day after day.

Living with Japanese cuisine for 25 years. Good food backed up by experience and sense.

Born in Hyogo prefecture in 1966. When he was a student, he was looking for work and became a chef. That's when he came into contact with the deliciousness and delicacy of Japanese Cuisine. He stayed with it for 25 straight years. He has very strict judgement concerning fish and takes taste very seriously. He is aiming for food that will make the customer happy with its taste and appearance, so he continues to hone his skills day and night.

He opened "Nepalico" with the aim of making Nepalese culture commonplace

He was born in Gorkha, Nepal in 1980, and came to Japan in 2003 in order to learn Japanese. After that, he resolved to spread the charm of Nepalese culture within Japan itself upon marrying his Japanese wife. He trained at restaurants in Tokyo, and returned to Nepal for a period of time to learn about Nepalese cuisine. In September 2010, he opened "Nepalico Shibuya branch". In March 2014, he opened "Nepalico Komazawa branch", thus spreading the charm of Nepalese cuisine further.