Out of the 'chili bowl building,' Shunji finds a worthy new home in Santa Monica.
For eight years, from 2012 to 2020, Shunji occupied the wildest, most only-in-Los-Angeles location for a sushi bar possible: the Sawtelle restaurant operated out of a stuccoed 1930s-era building shaped like a soup bowl.
Then 2020 crash-landed: Nakao, like so many of his peers, turned to making elaborate chirashi and bentos for takeout to sustain his business. A complicated situation with the landlords, involving a bid to preserve the building amid plans for demolition, compelled Shunji to relocate. In a recent email exchange, Hayato chef-owner Brandon Go and I were volleying around ideas about the school of omakase that has come to define the dominant Los Angeles style. It involves half a dozen or more ornately small dishes — some cooked and some not, displaying mastery of an array of culinary techniques — that precede the centerpiece parade of sushi. Go calls it “sushi-kaiseki.” Some highly regarded Tokyo restaurants follow this format.
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