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Sokyo chef Chase Kojima enters burger market with Gojima

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Chef Chase Kojima from Sokyo at The Star.
Chef Chase Kojima from Sokyo at The Star. James Brickwood

Sydney's star chefs have been all over the burger craze, now one of the city's sushi masters is joining the party, opening a "bunless" burger restaurant. Chase Kojima, the chef at Pyrmont's hatted Sokyo restaurant, will join a roll call of the city's top-flight chefs, Warren Turnbull and Neil Perry among them, to flip burgers.

Kojima's sushi burgers, or rice bun burgers as he prefers to call them because they are filled with cooked meats as well as raw seafood, will be the signature dish at Gojima, which opens later this year. The casual, Luchetti Krelle-designed eatery will slide into the former site of Adriano Zumbo, opposite Momofuku Seiobo at The Star.

"I've been working on it for over a year with my business partner, Jie Han. It took a long time to figure out how to get it right with the rice and the flavours," Kojima says.

The chef, who toured the world in a senior role for the Nobu restaurant group before relocating to Sydney, is keen to flex his creative muscle beyond high-end dining. "I'll split my time evenly between Sokyo, Gojima and Kiyomi. But I want to bring those high standards to affordable food and reach a wider audience."

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Scott BollesScott Bolles writes the weekly Short Black column in Good Food.

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