Twenty-two years ago Chris Kinjo, Atlanta’s sushi superstar, was just a teenager living in Los Angeles who randomly accepted a job at a local sushi restaurant. In just the first five years alone he practiced the basic fundamentals of the art, including making rice balls for a whole year before touching fish, practicing the fine art of sharpening the different style Japanese blades and understanding structure of fish and carefully handling and caring for each individual ingredients.

Over the next 20 years, Chris moved around the country and from restaurant-to-restaurant learning different techniques and gathering ideas from the nation’s best sushi chefs. Finally, 33 restaurants later, Kinjo arrived in Atlanta with one goal in mind –to introduce the city to the sushi that he’s evolved through his travels and experiences.

Chris quickly gained acclaim, not only for serving the most exotic fresh fish and rare ingredients the city had ever seen. Which made Mfsushibar the number one Sushi destination in the city within it’s first year.

Chris and Alex then set out to amaze the city again. In 2007, the Kinjo Brother’s opened their flagship restaurant, MF Buckhead. Since opening, MF Buckhead has received local and national acclaim, being named one of the country’s top sushi restaurants in 2009 by Bon Appetit magazine, awarded ‘Best Sushi in Atlanta’ in 2009 and 2010 and receiving five stars from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Atlantan Magazine.