Three New Arrivals, Three New Takes on Sushi

Takai by Kashiba is the Eastside’s new flagship for serious sushi.

Before Jun Takai left Tokyo to apprentice with Shiro Kashiba in Seattle, he bought himself a new knife. A long, lean blade with a black handle, almost menacing in its simplicity. He didn’t use it when he landed here to work for the city’s consummate sushi master. Not even after he left for I Love Sushi in Bellevue to build a following of his own. “I saved it,” he says of the knife, waiting for a day when he ran his own restaurant.

Finally. That wicked blade now sees action every night at Takai by Kashiba, an uplit

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