Mineko Kato

Mineko Kato is the pastry chef at FARO, the Italian restaurant on the 10th floor of the Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building in Ginza, Tokyo, where she has worked since 2018. Shiseido reported that she spent about 10 years as a pastry chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in Italy including Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Il Marchesino, Mandarin Oriental Milan, and Osteria Francescana. She won Asia’s Best Pastry Chef at Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants and was also recognized with the Best Patissier Award in Gault & Millau 2022 and the Top Patissier Award in LA LISTE Japanese Awards 2024.