[3] The restaurant opened in 2003 taking the former location of Masa Takayama's restaurant Ginza Sushi-ko, after Takayama moved to New York and opened Masa in the Time Warner Center.

[4] The head chef and owner Hiroyuki Urasawa's culinary journey started when he was young at his parents' restaurant in Shinjuku, Japan.

After years, Urasawa moved to Los Angeles and became an apprentice of the former owner of Ginza Sushi-ko, Masa Takayama.

[citation needed] In 2013, Urasawa was ordered to pay nearly $70,000 in penalties and unpaid wages.

[5][6] In 2016, another lawsuit alleged unpaid overtime wages and unfair treatment of a former sous chef.