Chef
Masa Takayama was born and raised in Japan. After high school, he worked at Tokyo's famous Sushiko in Ginza. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles, where he would eventually open his own Ginza Sushiko. After almost 20 years, and after having established Ginza Sushiko as one of the most expensive restaurants in Los Angeles at an average meal price of $105 per person, he sold his restaurant to his sous-chef and moved to New York to open Masa and later Bar Masa in both New York and Las Vegas. He would continue further to open his second restaurant in Las Vegas in 2009.
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