Me and cooking

I'm a Japanese brand and graphic designer with an embarrassing amount of life spent thinking about food, drink, and the culture surrounding both.
So why not!?

It started in Tokyo — youngest of three boys, brothers ten-plus years older with zero interest in playing with me, so I trailed my mother around the kitchen instead. Not that I cared at the time.
I just watched.

Years later in Atlanta, I worked as a sous-chef and front-of-house server through design school. As an editorial designer for a Japanese magazine in NYC, I somehow ended up writing restaurant reviews — everyone in the office knew I was the resident foodie. In Shanghai, I helped an agency build cocktail culture for Gen Z consumers and put together menus for private catering on the side.

 

Designer by trade, hospitality person by instinct. I've worked both sides of the pass and both sides of the bar — and that shows up in how I cook, plate, and host.

 

 

Berlin Calling

Then I moved to Berlin, and somewhere along the way I stopped just thinking about all this and started doing it. In April 2026, I started a monthly dinner club — a ten-course, Japanese-inspired tasting menu for ten private guests. Turns out the design career had been quietly training me for exactly this: reading a room, building a menu the way you'd build a narrative, course by course. Real kitchen grounding meets a designer's discipline.

I called it Omakase+.

 

 

 

 

 

Omakase+ is dinner for ten, extended mostly by invitation or a friend's referral. It's a bespoke ten-course evening in an intimate, somewhat unexpected setting, shared with a small circle of genuinely interesting people you might not otherwise cross paths with — no small thing in a city like Berlin.

The name comes from the Japanese omakase — "I'll leave it up to you" — and that's the spirit of the night: between courses, someone shares whatever's been on their mind lately. A story, a discovery, a question worth sitting with for a moment.

You'll leave with something — a person worth knowing, an unplanned conversation, an idea that lingers for a few days, or, at the very least, a meal you won't forget.

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