L.A. chef David Myers opens restaurants in JapanL.A. chef David Myers opens restaurants in Japan

Lisa Jennings

Los Angeles chef David Myers opened two new concepts in Tokyo this week in his first foray overseas.

Known for his former Los Angeles restaurant Sona, which he closed in May with plans to reopen in the city next year, David Myers and his restaurant group operate Pizzeria Ortica in Costa Mesa, Calif., as well as the French bistro Comme Ca in Los Angeles.

In Tokyo, Myers has developed a “California-inspired” concept called David Myers Café in the Mitsukoshi Ginza shopping center. Alongside the café, Myers has opened a high-end pastry shop called SOLA.

“I have been searching for years for the perfect opportunity to open in Tokyo,” Myers said in a statement. “It’s been a dream of mine to bring California cuisine to the world stage and I am thrilled to be amongst the world’s most inspiring chefs in an incredibly renowned location.”

The 40-seat David Myers Café showcases California cuisine using Japanese ingredients. The menu includes dishes such as corn agnolotti with ginger and honshimenji; a Japanese potato and miso soup with clams and mitsuba; and sake and harissa black cod with roasted spring onion and black olive.

The menu will also include the popular burger from Myers’ Comme Ca, as well as classic American sandwiches, such as a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich with garlic aioli.

SOLA offers traditional pastries with Japanese flavors, such as a green tea panna cotta cheesecake; or plum buckwheat crepes served with vanilla soy milk cream.

Later this year, David Myers Group is scheduled to open a second location of Comme Ca in Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan hotel casino.

In 2011, the group also plans to reopen Sona, which the company describes as “a temple of haute modern cuisine with global influences,” in a new property in Hollywood.

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