Years ago, in Japan, Jun Takai bought a special knife and vowed to keep it sheathed until he could deploy it as owner of his own restaurant. This week, Shiro Kashiba’s longtime lieutenant finally laid it on a cutting board behind the 10-seat sushi counter at Takai by Kashiba. And then he got to work.
Seattle’s very own sushi legend tapped Takai to head up a new restaurant in Bellevue. The sleek result of this partnership, Takai by Kashiba, opens September 8. Its arrival seems pretty darn likely to add another star to Seattle’s pantheon of great sushi and give the Eastside a new destination restaurant.
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