One of the Best Restaurants In Philadelphia

One of the Best  Restaurants In Philadelphia Is Home To Famous TV Executive Chef Morimoto

Do you watch a lot of TV? Have favorite types of shows? How about the many cooking shows like Top Chef, Hell’s Kitchen, etc? Iron Chef America is a favorite as well and Chef Masaharu Morimoto, who is known to millions of people from that show is the Executive Chef at Morimoto Philadelphia restaurant, among others.

Before earning chef stardom, Morimoto was to be drafted as a baseball catcher in Japan’s major leagues when a shoulder injury ended his career.  Soon thereafter, he began studying sushi and kaiseki, honing his craft for seven years at an acclaimed restaurant in his native Hiroshima, Japan.  At age 24, he opened his own restaurant nearby, and after a successful five-year tenure, he sold it and traveled to the U.S. to further expand his repertoire.  In 1993, Morimoto was tapped to head the sushi bar and Japanese kitchen at the Sony Club before being recruited by Chef Nobu Matsuhisa to open the first Nobu restaurant as executive chef in 1994.Morimoto opened his Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia in 2001.

Since 1998, Morimoto has competed on the Japanese television show, Iron Chef and also appears on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America. In 2007 his first cookbook, Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking, was published, winning two IACP awards and a James Beard Foundation Award nomination.

For detailed information on street address, phone number, menu speciality check out the facts at http://www.morimotorestaurant.com/

Bon Appetit!