recipe for a foodie pilgrimage: morimoto

[Bottomlover]

Update

http://www.teikokurestaurant.com/

I might have it wrong. The restaurant is owned by Thais, and when it opened, Umer Naim (former general manager of Morimoto) was the general manager. Greg McColgan was the chef, and a waitress told me he was a former sous chef at Morimoto, but I am not certain of that. I know Umer Naim left, and the sushi chef (Alex, I don't remember his last name) took over as head chef and changed the menu. We didn't like his food as much, and have not been there for a while, but I was just saying a few nights ago that we should give it a try and see how it has evolved. I'll report back.

With the original manager and chef, it was easily the best food in the burbs. The chef's tasting thing was by far the best and most interesting food I've ever had.

I still haven't been back to Teikoku. I just saw a newspaper article that states that Teikoku and some other restaurants are owned by the Somboonsong family, and that their corporate chef is Takao Iinuma, who was a sous chef for Morimoto both on Iron Chef America and at his Philadelphia restaurant. The Soombonsongs have just opened a new restaurant called Azie in Media, and it has a new menu that was designed by Iinuma. The executive chef at this new restaurant is Kazuyuki Mitsui, who also worked at Morimoto.

My guess is that this new restaurant would be a good bet if you wanted to try someplace new. We plan to check it out soon.

Its web site is not yet complete http://www.azie-restaurant.com/

 

[silverwhisper]

thank you, bottomlover. i shall have to keep that in mind. :>

ed