Catering service
Private Sushi Chef
at your home

  I am dedicated to create my dream restaurants where people can enjoy delicious foods and drinks to satisfy their tummy, and the hospitality, harmony and respect to satisfy their soul.

  

     Masa Endo was born and raised in Chigasaki City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He has also lived in Tokyo and Nagano. Before moving to the United States in 1996, he studied and graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Tokai University.  During his school years he worked at Izakaya Shirokiya as a part time job. Shirokiya is one of the Izakaya chain restaurants of Monte Roza Group, which is one of the most prestigious restaurant corporations in Japan. It was when and where he found his passion in the restaurant business. He started to work as a service staff, and then he moved to the kitchen to learn to work as a cook.  After that, he worked at the Prince Hotel Group, which is where he learned the high end formality of table manners and hospitality.
   Once arriving to the United States, he began his career as a Sushi Chef at TAKA SUSHI in Santa Monica, CA., where he discovered a love for cooking the most delicious dishes.  Unbeknownst to him, becoming a sushi chef was the perfect dream job for him.  Over the years, he worked at many prestigious sushi bars in Los Angeles. But it wasn’t until he had the opportunity to work [for seven years] as the Executive Sushi Chef at Tengu in Westwood, CA. when he mastered and developed his own sushi making style.
   During his tenure at Tengu, he participated in the Mutual Trading Co. Sushi Chef Competition in 2008, taking home with him 2nd Place Prize among 20 other sushi chefs. And in 2009, the same organization awarded me with “Certificate of Appreciation” for the efforts of presenting Japanese Food & Culture in the US.