Chin Chin's Chris Lucas names his Japanese restaurant Kisume

For months it's gone under the working title 175 Flinders Lane. Now restaurateur Chris Lucas is revealing the name of his ambitious three-level Japanese restaurant, and the winner is: Kisume.

Expected to open in stages from late April, Kisume (which Lucas translates as "purity") will range over three levels, with a hot kitchen taking shape in the basement, a sushi bar at street level and upstairs an edgy omakase (chef's choice) restaurant that will go under the name Kuro Kisume (Black Kisume).

​Alongside Kuro Kisume will be a pair of private dining rooms and a New York-style wine bar specialising in chablis, the flinty French chardonnay that's a surprise BFF for sushi.

Having already announced that Australian chef Shaun Presland​ would head the kitchen and sommelier Philip Rich would take charge of the wine list, Lucas is adding further firepower: Korean-born sushi master Moon Kyung Soo.

​Chef Moon, who is both certified to serve blowfish (fugu) and an internationally recognised sake sommelier, has been lured from Mikuni in Singapore and has previously worked at Hotel Okura in Tokyo and the Armani Hotel Dubai.

Architects Wood Marsh are overseeing work on the three-level restaurant, a few doors down from the Lucas Group's mega-successful Chin Chin.