Sushi Chef

Specialties

Traditional Japanese cuisine and market

History

Established in 1991.

Chef Enomoto travels to South Florida in 1991 to establish Sushi Chef where in the be­ginning it was a Japanese market and a few tables for lunch. Today Sushi Chef has grown to be one of Miami’s hidden treasures for locals to get their Japanese food.

Meet the Business Owner

Enomoto F.

Business Owner

Born in Akita Prefecture in Northern Japan, chef Enomoto was interested in the culinary arts at a young age. He moved to Tokyo and in 1958 he entered the Tokiwa-​ya company, where under the tutelage of Grand Chef Ryozo Satoh he starts his education and training. In 1965 he travels to Caracas, Venezuela as the Japanese Embassy’s attaché and later that year to the Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. To further his cooking career Chef Enomoto moves to Paris, France where he becomes a classical trained French chef. He goes back to Caracas in 1971 to open Kamon Restaurant, Venezuela’s first Japanese restaurant with much accolade. With this success in 1978 he opens Avila Tei Restaurant, which is a fine cuisine Japanese restaurant which these days is still open. Chef Enomoto and his family travel to sunny South Florida and in 1991 establish Sushi Chef Japanese Restaurant & Market.