1. Tetsuya Wakuda was born on 18 June 1959 and is a Japanese-born Australian chef based in Sydney.
11 Facts About Tetsuya Wakuda
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Tetsuya Wakuda was the leading judge in the final episode of the second season of Junior MasterChef Australia.
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Tetsuya Wakuda was born on June 18,1959, in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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In 1983, Tetsuya Wakuda met Sydney chef Tony Bilson, who hired him to prepare sushi at Kinsela's in Taylor Square.
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Under Bilson, Tetsuya Wakuda learned classical French techniques that underpin his Japanese-French fusion cooking.
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Tetsuya Wakuda says that Kinsela's was where he realised he wanted to cook, and discovered that he could.
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Tetsuya Wakuda left Kinsela's in 1983 and set up Rose's nightclub with one of the restaurant's managers.
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Tetsuya Wakuda decided to start his own restaurant with his wife and chose a small shopfront in Rozelle as the location.
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Tetsuya Wakuda's opened in 1989, in Sydney's inner-west suburb of Rozelle.
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In November 2000, Tetsuya Wakuda's moved to a larger location in Sydney's CBD.
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In 2022, Tetsuya Wakuda opened his first US restaurant at The Venetian Las Vegas hotel in the Palazzo tower on the Las Vegas Strip.