Roy Yamaguchi
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| Roy Yamaguchi | |
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| Born | 1956 Tokyo, Japan |
| Cooking style | Hawaiian Fusion |
| Education | Culinary Institute of America |
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Roy Yamaguchi is a Japanese-American celebrity chef.
Yamaguchi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan but now lives in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi.
After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, he spent time in Los Angeles in apprenticeships at L'Escoffier and L'Ermitage under the late master chef Jean Bertanou. He was soon elevated to executive chef status with stints at Le Serene and Le Gourmet. He then opened the Euro-Asian 385 North in West Hollywood, featuring Asian presentations of French classical themes. He then moved to Hawaiʻi, where he opened Roy's in 1988 and, with other local chefs, helped to pioneer the trademark of Hawaiʻi Regional Cuisine. He is Hawaiʻi's first-ever James Beard Award winner. After opening three other Roy's locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Roy branched out to the continental U.S. and eventually partnered with Outback Steakhouse, allowing greater expansion to areas including Pebble Beach, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Chicago; New York City; and more recently, Plano, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Tampa, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Maryland. Besides his 30+ U.S. locations, Roy's eclectic blend of East, West, and Polynesia can be found in Japan and Guam, and his cuisine is also available to Continental Airlines Business First travelers traveling between Asia, Hawaiʻi, the West Coast, and the Southwest.
He is also notable for being the host of the cooking show Hawaiʻi Cooks and appearing as Iron Chef Asian in the first American incarnation of the Japanese television show Iron Chef, Iron Chef USA.
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