Working side by side, they were planning bigger changes that would lift their restaurant, Shintaku, firmly out of its musty past and into a much more contemporary gastronomic relevance.

1. Shiomi, A., Kaneko, T., Nishikawa, K., Tsuchida, A., Isoshima, T., Sato, M., Toyooka, K., Doi, K., Nishikii, H., and Shintaku, H.: "High-throughput mechanical ...

Which is fine, as it goes, but wait till you taste what chef-owner Hiro Shintaku, former sommelier at En, does at his new little Davie Street tapas place. Umami takes its name from the term for ...