Explore the latest restaurant openings, including sushi pop-up Ken in San Francisco
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Chef Chi Hang Ngai is creating beautiful to-go sushi orders from his restaurant, Ken, in San Francisco.Courtesy Ken
Chef Chi Hang Ngai, also known as Chef Ken, is finally opening up his own proper restaurant in San Francisco.
Ngai has worked at Sushi Ran in Sausalito for 10 years and more recently spent five years at Kusakabe, both jobs under chef Mitsunori Kusakabe, before striking out on his own with his new restaurant, Ken, on Divisadero.
It hasn t been a straight route to opening, however. Right after I told my chef that I decided to open my restaurant, [it was] not even a week and then the city, everything just shut down, Ngai said of his decision to strike out on his own in the spring of 2020.