Shota Nakajima is opening his take on a teriyaki restaurant — inspired by flavors he grew up eating in Seattle and Japan — at the end of March. The restaurant, with 38 indoor seats and rooftop bar that fits 90, is in Cle Elum, almost 100 miles east of Seattle by car.
Banzai Teriyaki will serve dishes using Nakajima’s signature teriyaki sauce, which launched in December and can be found at stores like Uwajimaya. The bottled sauce is a twist on the teriyaki sauce he loved as a child in Seattle, with jolts of umami from ingredients like nutritional yeast and hints of toastiness from sesame paste.
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