Today we’re sitting down with Chef Taka Sakaeda, Chef and Partner at Nami Nori, a Japanese Temaki Bar in the West Village. Previously, Chef Taka was a chef at the acclaimed Three Michelin Star Masa Restaurant in NYC.

Today we chat with Taka about his upbringing in a Japanese household and his passion for food, his time at Masa, and the origins of his new temaki concept Nami Nori, one of our favorite restaurants in NYC.

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