Since 2016, owner and chef Hideyuki Imaizumi has spearheaded a renewed interest in Japanese cuisine at his restaurant Marusan, where classic dishes are given a new life through bold flavours and textures. At Time Out Market Montréal, Marusan’s chef Tetsuya Shimizu—who trained in Tokyo, Vancouver and Toronto before moving to Montréal to open his own Japanese restaurant and teaming up with Imaizumi—serves his casually cool and familiar dishes such as karaage Japanese curry rice, triple soup tonkotsu ramen and truffle oil onsen egg.