Mutsuko Soma

Mutsuko Soma has worked at some of Seattle’s most beloved restaurants and completed a rigorous training in Tokyo on how to knead, roll, and cut Japanese soba by hand — a talent that earned national acclaim for her restaurant, Kamonegi. But this is also a chef who once entered — and won — a recipe contest using dried Cup Noodles to make okonomiyaki. Her lively sake bar, Hannyatou, doubles as an outlet for that righteous creativity in the form of drinking snacks.