"I note that Daisuke Nakazawa’s acclaimed Sushi Nakazawa is tied to a prestigious lineage — Nakazawa studied under the famous Jiro Ono (of Sukiyabashi Jiro) and appears in the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi — and that Nakazawa served as a mentor to Endo’s Yasuhiro, who worked at Sushi Nakazawa in New York and later in Washington, D.C., receiving his mentor’s approval to leave and open his own restaurant." - Nadia Chaudhury