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Eleven years ago, finding a female chef behind a sushi counter in Tokyo was unprecedented, much less one who runs her own fine dining restaurant focusing on a specialisation like kappo cuisine.
A little more than a decade later, chef Akane Eno is bucking that trend in Singapore, with Ichigo Ichie – the kappo restaurant she opened in February 2020, right at the start of the pandemic.
To date, chef Eno is the only female Japanese chef helming a Japanese fine dining restaurant here. Her intimate 16-seater – backed by founders of beef specialist The Gyu Bar and one-Michelin starred Sushi Kimura – is located at InterContinental Robertson Quay.
For the uninitiated, “kappo” is a multi-course meal that is left entirely up to the chef. The term means to cut and to cook, and it is a style that spotlights the chef’s preparation of the meal in front of guests who get to savour the entire dining experience with all five senses.
