NARISAWA is a

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restaurant in

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, Japan. It opened in Minami Aoyama in November 2003.

Awards

NARISAWA received one Michelin star in the 2008 ''

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Tokyo'', and then two stars in 2010. In 2008 the restaurant was ranked 20th among

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, and the best restaurant in Asia. Most recently, the restaurant was named 8th in 2016.

Chef

Yoshihiro Narisawa is a Japanese chef and owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Les Créations de Narisawa in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Career Narisawa was born in Aichi prefecture in 1969 to a baker and western sweets maker. He travelled to Europe at the age of ...

was born on 11 April 1969 in

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, Japan. He trained in Switzerland under

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, in France under

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, and in Italy at Antica Osteria del Ponte. Narisawa returned from Europe after 9 years and opened his own first restaurant in

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, and named it "La Napoule". He subsequently moved the entire operation to central Tokyo.

References

External links

Les Créations de Narisawa

May 2009 Restaurants in Tokyo Michelin Guide starred restaurants in Japan French restaurants in Japan Restaurants established in 2003 2003 establishments in Japan {{Asia-restaurant-stub