THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS | Omakase restaurant Tatsu to open in Deep Ellum with a Japanese sushi master
The restaurant will have just eight seats.
A Japanese restaurant named after its fourth-generation master sushi chef Tatsuya Sekiguchi is expected to open in Deep Ellum this winter.
Tatsu will have possibly the smallest seating arrangement we’ve ever seen in Dallas: eight chairs. It’ll be located in the Continental Gin Building, which is one of the oldest commercial structures in Dallas, built in 1888. The Continental Gin Building reopened in March 2021 after a two-year renovation, reports our real estate editor Steve Brown.
Tatsu’s namesake chef spent 10 years working at Sushi Yasuda, a New York City restaurant with one Michelin star. Chef Sekiguchi’s new restaurant in Dallas will draw from his home country of Japan, where he learned the principles of Edomae, which Saveur describes as a 200-year-old Tokyo tradition of making sushi by cooking or curing it. Tatsu will be an omakase restaurant, which, in Japanese culture, means that diners leave their dinner in the hands of the chef.