Takashi Yagihashi is a Japanese

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, residing in the United States. He specializes in a fusion of French and Asian cuisine.

Career

In 1996, Takashi opened his first restaurant Tribute. The ''

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'' gave the restaurant four stars; The ''

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'' called it "maybe the best restaurant between New York and Chicago and certainly the finest in Detroit." In 2003, he was named the 13th Annual James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Midwest. In 2005, he opened Okada for Steve Wynn in the Wynn Las Vegas, where he created a contemporary Japanese menu influenced by his French training. He has since become a member of the Macy's culinary council and he opened Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi at

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in Chicago before opening his namesake restaurant in December 2007. Takashi also owns and operates another Chicago based restaurant, a Japanese-style

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house called Slurping Turtle which opened in November 2011. In April 2014, he opened another location of Slurping Turtle in

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. He was featured on an episode of ''

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'' in the 2012 season, where it was mentioned that he started cooking because he needed money for milk, which he credits that as the start of his cooking career. Yagahashi appeared on

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in 2012, participating in seven rounds, and was featured on the cooking show ''

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''. In 2009, he published the book ''Takashi's Noodles'' together with Harris Salat. His namesake restaurant in Chicago closed at the end of the year in 2014. The Chicago restaurant of Slurping Turtle recently closed on May 30, 2019; the Ann Arbor, Michigan restaurant remains opened with a second location open in Columbus, Ohio Yagahashi is no longer affiliated with Slurping Turtle (as of 2018). His newest culinary venture is Pernoi, in Birmingham, Mich., which he opened with Chef Luciano DelSignore in Sep 2019.

References

* http://www.greatchefs.com/takashi-yagihashi/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20091029083247/http://www.restaurant.org/careers/profiles/takashiyagihashi.cfm * https://web.archive.org/web/20090522054559/http://www.foodandwine.com/bestnewchefs/?year=2000&chef=B29E49BE-8C1C-4DDC-BFC11766A99F5F0F * http://www.takashichicago.com/ * https://chicago.eater.com/2019/5/20/18632484/slurping-turtle-chicago-closing-river-north-hubbard-ramen-restaurant-shutter * https://chicago.eater.com/2019/1/14/18182185/chicago-restaurant-bar-closures-2019 Asian American chefs American male chefs Living people Japanese emigrants to the United States James Beard Foundation Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-bio-stub