Vancouver Michelin restaurants: Star awarded to five-seat sushi counter [Video]

A five-seat sushi counter located inside another restaurant is the latest Vancouver eatery to receive a Michelin star.

Sushi Masuda was the only new restaurant in the city to receive the distinction at an annual ceremony Thursday, the third such event since the culinary kingmaker started issuing its famously elusive stars on Canada’s west coast.

Michelin’s anonymous inspector described Sushi Masuda as “a pointed reminder not to judge a book by its cover.”

“The plain, spare room is brought to life by the artfully simple, meticulous preparations of Chef Yoji Masuda, whose time spent in a top counter in Tokyo is amply apparent, though his own personality comes through,” the inspector wrote of the eatery’s omakase sushi course.

With the addition of Sushi Masuda, there are now 10 restaurants in Vancouver with one Michelin star, an honour given to eateries with “high quality cooking” that are deemed “worth a stop.”

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