Takai by Kashiba Restaurant

Takai by Kashiba Restaurant is a small sushi restaurant with a design by Heliotrope Architects that focuses on simplicity and craft, incorporating Japanese aesthetics with materials from the Pacific Northwest.

Firm
  • area / size 2,000 sqft
  • Year 2022
  • Location Bellevue, Washington, United States,
  • Type Restaurant,

    • Takai by Kashiba is a sushi restaurant for acclaimed chef Shiro Kashiba, his son, Edwin, and head apprentice Jun Takai.  The design is an exercise in simplicity and craft, an intimate retreat to partake in the art of Edomae-style sushi.  It is a small restaurant, defined by the sushi bar, the dining room and a whiskey bar, and adopts a Japanese attitude encased in the materials of the Pacific Northwest. Hand troweled plaster walls, and a textural layering of cedar and ash wrapping guests in a soft play of shadow and light.

    Design: Heliotrope Architects
    Design Team: Mike Mora, Jonathan Teng
    Contractor: Method Construction
    Photography: Kevin Scott