A Taste for Opportunity

Kumi Iseki of Wasabi Bistro

Click here to view online magazine It wasn’t until after buying her condo in Waikiki that restaurateur Kumi Iseki fell in love with the Islands. A resident of California at the time, the Tokyo native was operating four branches of her Japanese restaurant, Shogun. Iseki sold them all, packed up, and said goodbye to her busy life on the Mainland. I wanted to semi-retire, come to Hawai’i and open up a tiny restaurant,” she recalls. Little did she know, that tiny restaurant was destined to be an international hit, and her idea of “semi-retiring” would see itself out the door.

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