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    Chef

    Daigo Sakai

    Owner Chef, Sushi Sakai

    Discipline
    Chef
    Based in
    Fukuoka, Japan
    Portrait of Daigo Sakai

    i. Biography

    Daigo Sakai is the owner chef of Sushi Sakai in Fukuoka, Japan. The restaurant opened in Akasaka in 2013 and relocated to Nishi-Nakasu in 2017; the official site describes it as an Edomae-style sushi restaurant and notes it has received three Michelin stars. Independent dining listings also identify Sakai as the chef associated with Sushi Sakai and report the restaurant’s Michelin recognition in 2014 and again in 2019.