Chef Iguchi has an excellent perspective that allows him to combine and balance flavours, textures, temperatures and changes over time. When working as a chef in a restaurant where creative skills are supposed to be the main theme, they can be blurred by factors that seep in from various expected angles.
Héritage by Kei Kobayashi opened on the 45th floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo in January 2024. Teruki Murashima, who had already collaborated with Kobayashi at AZURE 45, its predecessor at the same location, will serve as head chef. Kobayashi, known as the first Asian chef to win three Michelin stars in France, supervised the restaurant under his own name, making it the first restaurant of its kind in Japan.