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On Alameda Lorena in São Paulo’s Jardins neighborhood, Murakami offers a singular experience rooted in the Japanese concept of a living menu — one that is born and dies each night, shaped by the day’s finest ingredients.
Chef Tsuyoshi Murakami was born in Hokkaido, Japan, and emigrated to Brazil as a child in the late 1970s. He later returned to Japan to study traditional Japanese cooking before working at Ozushi in Tokyo, Shabu Shabu in New York, and Kiyokata in Barcelona. He eventually came back to Brazil to open his own restaurant.
The dining room is minimalist, designed to let the food speak. The dinner service is omakase, available in two formats: the Murakami Experience, a ten-course sequence of cold and hot dishes, and the Sushi Experience, which begins with three zensai (appetizers) and moves through twelve pieces of nigiri made one by one, plus a hand roll, tempura, and a hot dish. Lunch is à la carte, served from noon to 3 PM.
The kitchen draws from the precepts of traditional Japanese cuisine while moving with elegance into modern Japanese contemporary cooking. This balance of intuition, talent, and feeling — paired with the best ingredients of the day — defines Murakami’s approach.
The restaurant’s quality has earned it a Michelin star, a recognition of its high-level cooking and the precision of its omakase. It operates by reservation only, with two nightly seatings, Monday through Saturday.
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