Kaiseki Master Brings Japanese Fine Dining to Belltown
EATER SEATTLE - Though he honed his skills at highly respected Seattle sushi restaurants Shiro’s and Sushi Kappo Tamura, chef-owner Hiro Tawara’s new Belltown restaurant, Wa’z (411 Cedar St.), will not focus on his native Japan’s raw-fish-and-rice dishes. Instead, Tawara will serve the country’s elegant, seasonally shifting prix fixe meals known as kaiseki, a style on which Tawara built his career and has shared via Pike Place Market pop-ups since 2015. Wa’z is set to open in March.