Sergio Herman explained, “Food First. Always. It’s in our heart and is the code by which we live. Fashion is a statement. Create your own personality. It’s not about how you look; it’s about how you feel. It’s about the spirit of the age and the pulse of time. Design is the shape of ideas.
Visual expectations are real, and we deliver on them. We eat and drink with our eyes. Art is the unexpected. We believe it’s food for the soul and the drive to imagine and wonder. Music is our driving force and it keeps things moving. Mixing rhythm with melancholy, the classics with the new.”
The restaurant’s interiors by the internationally renowned Space Copenhagen from Denmark – which also designed the original Le Pristine in Antwerp and the comfortable, stylish spaces of Hotel Toranomon Hills – will be accentuated by striking art and objets d’art by Dutch artists such as Maarten Baas, Rinus van de Velde and Rotganzen.
Food at the casual fine-dining restaurant and café will be carefully served on wabi-sabi inspired “INKU” tableware by Serax from Belgium and designed by Sergio Herman.
Le Pristine Tokyo will deliver a contemporary spin on European classic, blending Japanese ingredients with produce from Zeeland, the coastal Southwest province of the Netherlands facing the North Sea.
Zeeland is the largest farming region in the country with rich soils, ample sunshine, pristine waters and sea-washed riverbanks, and is known for producing some of Europe’s most succulent crustaceans.
Sergio Herman stated, “Planting our flag in the heart of a dynamic city like Tokyo will broaden our culinary horizon. To open in the brand new Toranomon Hills Hotel in this much anticipated neighborhood is a dream. We are determined to make this a success and establish Le Pristine as a new classic in Japan.”
About Sergio Herman
Chef/Founder, Sergio Herman Group
Born in 1970 in Zeeland, the Netherlands, Sergio Herman began his career as a chef in his teens at his family’s restaurant “Oud Sluis” in Sluis, the Netherlands, where he shared his love of cooking with his father.
