Church St. - Sakura Karsai?

skylineR33 kept saying that Sakura is not a real kaiseki restaurant.
But what do you think the fact that the chef has been a kaiseki chef for more than 20 years, trained in Japan, not like other Japanese chefs that are trained only in toronto. Sakura's chef used to be the personal chef to the Japanese consulate. Do you think consulate hires a fake kaiseki chef? He also has experience serving to Japanese royal family, too. That's the fact that he is a true kaiseki chef. You cannot tell because you are not kaiseki chef, you just have eaten some kaiseki in Japan. It's ok that you don't like sakura, but you'd better stop telling people that sakura is not a kaiseki place... you just don't know, man.

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Oh, I totally forgot.... Shinobu is an excellent place to go.
It's not a fancy place, but you can feel that the chef and staff
welcome you, and want you to have a good time.

3403 Yonge Street, Toronto, On
(North of Lawrence, East side on Yonge.)
416-830-0741
Tue-Sun. 17:30～22:30

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Kashiwabara (Zen), Mori (Toshi Sushi), and I forgot his name, but
930 Sushi on King, they are all great Sushi chefs!

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Hashimoto used to be just a carpenter in Japan, and when he came to Toronto, he started to work as a sushi chef in Japanese restaurants.
The competition he won the 3rd place last year was for the bigginers...
almost all the competiters were around 30..... he is like 60??

On the other hand, Izutsu, Sakura's chef has been focused on kaiseki only since he started his cooking career.

I prefer Sakura over Hashimoto. Hashimoto is just pretending to be a kaiseki chef, and does only old-fashioned kaiseki style. Izutsu knows all the basics and techniques so that he is able to play with unique ingredients based on the traditional kaiseki.

Kaji is the best but you cannot call that it's kaiseki. He is a sushi chef, but Okada (who is in the kitchen in Kaji) is a kaiseki chef. He another real kaiseki master.

This is a well-known fact in Japanese community in Toronto.

Just wanted to share with everyone.

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