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OUR CHEFS 2016


Shuzo Kishida

Shuzo Kishida is owner chef of 3 Michelin-starred restaurant Quintessence in Tokyo. Kishida is a prodigious talent whose exquisite French restaurant has been wowing Tokyo diners since 2006. His cooking centers around three core values, which he calls the ‘three processes’: respecting the produce, understanding the cooking process and attention to detail, especially seasoning. Kishida’stalens were instilled in him during a formative period working at three-Michelin-starred L’Astrance in Paris, under the guidance of the brilliant Pascal Barbot.

The Chef originates from the Aichi Prefecture in Japan and he started his career in 1993 when he joined the French restaurant La Mer in the Shima Hotel in Japan’s Mie Prefecture. He continued to work at another French cuisine restaurant in Japan called K M before he moved to France in 2000. He worked at several restaurants in France before Pascal Barbot took the cook under his wing and invited him to his amazing Astrance in Paris in 2003. Shuzo Kishida became Astrance’s Sous Chef already in 2004 so he moved quickly from a promising young chef to become something much more. Kishida moved back to Japan and Tokyo in 2006 where he founded Quintessence which almost immediately became a huge success.
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