London's Newest Japanese Restaurant Is Run by a Romanian Chef

Jason Atherton nears the opening of his sixth London restaurant.
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The head chef at a new Japanese izakaya that promises to be one of London's highest-profile restaurants trained as a mechanical engineer in central Romania. Then he learned British cuisine in a Newcastle pub.

Alex Craciun is now the man picked by Jason Atherton to head the kitchen at Sosharu , which opens in London's Clerkenwell on March 7.