Marcelo Hisaki

Marcelo Hisaki has spent more than a decade building Restaurante Amores as a kitchen where technique, memory, and place are worked into the same line. Since 2013, he has been chef-owner of the restaurant in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, and the cooking there carries the pressure points of a mixed training ground: Mexico City birth, Japanese parentage, French schooling at Lycée Hotelier de Monte Carlo, and a practice formed at the junction of Mexican, Japanese, and French cultures. At Amores, those influences read less like separate references than a single working grammar, carried through local produce and a kitchen that values control, detail, and feeling in equal measure. His own introduction is plainspoken, and it maps the span of the role: The line places him in more than one circuit at once, moving from Tecate into broader professional exchange without leaving regional identity behind.