Naz: Bounty from landlocked Nagano’s rivers and pastures

It takes a exceptional diploma of self-confidence for any chef to open their first restaurant on the younger age of 26. To try this within the fall of 2020, simply because the pandemic was gathering power in Japan, would appear to defy all logic.

Chef Natsuki Suzuki clearly has no want or inclination to second guess himself. After simply 3½ years — and nonetheless months away from his thirtieth birthday — he now runs some of the extremely regarded and hardest to guide eating places within the Shinshu area of central Honshu.

Named after a nickname Suzuki acquired whereas coaching in Europe, Naz lies simply down the street from the place the place he grew up and took his first steps as a chef.