Sugimoto joined Imperial Hotel, Ltd. in 1999. In 2004, Sugimoto left Japan for France, where he was employed for some 13 years among the best of the best: Michelin-starred restaurants in Brittany, the fabled Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, and with culinary luminaries such as Yannick Alleno and Alain Ducasse. After stints as Executive Chef of Restaurant L'Esperance in Burgundy in 2014 and at The Square Restaurant in London in 2016, Sugimoto decided to devote more interest to a city famous around the globe for its epicurean excellence - the multi-Michelin starred metropolis of Tokyo. Having been awarded the prestigious title of 62eme Prix Culinaire Prosper Montagne as the first Japanese to hold the title, and winning the 2012 Le Taittinger Prix Culinaire in France, he returned to Tokyo and we immediately swept him back into our net.
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