Celebrity chef Shota Nakajima has been rumored to be involved with a lot of different restaurants this year — including a teriyaki restaurant he mysteriously backed out of in Cle Elum — but Nakajima’s newest project is perhaps his most surprising yet: He’s opening a Detroit-style pizza restaurant.
Kōbo, which means yeast in Japanese, will launch on September 10 at Capitol Hill’s Redhook Brewlab, next door to Nakajima’s fried chicken restaurant, Taku. It will serve Nakajima’s Japanese-influenced version of Detroit-style pizza as well as umami-heavy brewery snacks.
At first glance, Nakajima, a Japanese-trained chef, seems to have few ties to Kōbo’s signature Midwestern dish. But he explains
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