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Brian Kim's Samurai Sushi on Miller Has Hit Its Stride
Kim says he's honed his style to find the right mix of traditional and fusion.
It’s safe to say that Samurai Japanese restaurant owner Brian Kim had an anxious start when he took over the business at 425 Miller Avenue in February 2012.
For starters, it was Kim’s first time running his own restaurant. It was in a town that was new to the Berkeley native, in the space and under the moniker of Mill Valley’s first-ever sushi restaurant, one that had a devoted following for more than three decades. And at the end of 2013, he decided that the restaurant’s out-dated infrastructure needed an overhaul, so he closed for two months to accommodate the renovation. And then two months turned into six.
