"Fans of the much-feted Japanese restaurant Hashida Sushi have been on a roller-coaster ride. A week after the five-year-old restaurant closed for good, chef Kenjiro Hashida is announcing his comeback. In a press statement that was released yesterday, Hashida will now run a sushi restaurant in Singapore with Cloud Eight, a newly-formed subsidiary of Singapore lifestyle company, Lifebrandz. According to a Lifebrandz spokesperson, the new restaurant will open by this year. She declined to comment on the restaurant’s name, location and opening date, but only mentioned that some details will be on the restaurant’s new website by early next month. The Tokyo-born chef will also open restaurants in San Francisco and Tokyo in the near future." - Kenneth Goh
