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Saint Bread Owner Yasuaki Saito Featured in SeattleMet
Yasuaki Saito’s Hospitality Hides in Plain Sight
The low-key genius of the man behind Seattle’s favorite restaurants. Harry Cheadle writes for SeattleMet:
Yasuaki Saito’s restaurants are more famous than he is. Saint Bread, his University District waterfront bakery, was called one of the country’s best bakeries by The New York Times and got longlisted for the James Beard Awards last year. This year the Wayland Mill, his Japanese-inspired all-day café and restaurant in Wallingford, is up for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant. If you’ve eaten at Saito’s restaurants, you may have unknowingly met the shaggy-headed forty something when he greeted you at his Fremont pizzeria, Tivoli, or made your coffee at Saint Bread.