If you’ve eaten Portland sushi in the last two decades, you’ve likely eaten sushi made by Job Martinez. The chef has worked in several notable Japanese restaurants in Portland: He sliced fish in the kitchen of Bamboo Sushi’s first location, at the longstanding downtown sushi counter Masu, at the late-great Sinju and Bush Garden, and at two of celebrated sushi chef Hiro Ikegaya’s restaurants, Mirakutei and Hiro Sushi — in fact, Martinez and his brother bought Mirakutei from Ikegaya in 2018.
After spending 24 years working in other people’s restaurants, however, Martinez has finally built his own from the ground up. In January, the chef opened Kaizen in
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