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Morimoto Restaurant: A New Delight of DesignStephen Starr, one of the country's top restaurateurs, and Chef Masaharu Morimoto, star of television's immensely popular cooking show Iron Chef, opened Morimoto, a brilliant restaurant featuring contemporary Japanese cuisine, at 723 Chestnut Street.
To complete their visionary team and develop the original concept, Starr hired world-renowned designer Karim Rashid.
Throughout the space, he blends traditional Japanese design with organic and sensual elements.
With his cutting-edge design, Rashid stimulates and awakens the senses.
"Rashid's unusual surroundings set the stage for the inspired cuisine of Chef Morimoto," says Starr, who is credited with bringing two other high-concept Asian restaurants, Buddakan and Pod, to Philadelphia.
Chef Morimoto, who has earned international respect for his extraordinary cuisine, integrates Western ingredients and techniques with traditional Japanese cooking such as tempura, sushi, sashimi and yakimono.
A selection of private label sakes compliments Chef Morimoto's sophisticated menu.
"The cuisine at my new restaurant goes beyond everything I have ever created.
I am introducing new preparations that incorporate ingredients rarely tasted outside of Japan," says Chef Morimoto, who recently left his position of six years as Executive Chef at the highly
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