Born in Los Angeles, where the food is as diverse as the city’s culture, chef and visionary Jeff Osaka has always been fascinated by the restaurant industry and has garnered praise from critics and peers alike for his indelible contributions to the culinary world. Throughout his25 years of experience, Osaka has worked as an executive chef and restaurateur as well as a private consultant, cooking and catering for some of the most notable names in Hollywood (including Steven Spielberg) and alongside Chefs Bradley Ogden at One Market and Wolfgang Puck at Chinois Las Vegas. While at Chinois, Chef Osaka refined his cooking technique to deftly implement Puck’s concept of marrying Asian cuisine with French influences. Following his time in Las Vegas, Osaka moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where he, alongside friend and Wine Director Ken Fredrickson M.S., opened Restaurant Terroir in 1998which was followed by Asian-influenced Koshu in 2000.In November of 2008, Osaka brought his experience and passion to Denver, Colo. where he opened twelve, a restaurant intensely inspired by the changing seasons as the restaurant’s entire menu changed every month. By the time twelve closed in August 2014,Osaka had featured more than70 different menus and 1,000 different dishes during the restaurant’s highly successful six-year reign. In 2014, Chef Jeff Osaka received a James Beard Foundation Best Chef Southwest semifinalist nomination.In2015, Chef Osaka opened Osaka Ramen, his interpretation of a traditional ramen shop as well as Sushi-Rama, a conveyor-belt sushi concept, both located in the heart of the RiNo Arts District. Infall2016,Osaka, alongside business partner Ken Wolf, introduced Denver Central Market and later that year, Chef brought back his critically acclaimed twelve concept with 12@Madison in the Congress Park neighborhood(which sadly shuttered in May 2020 in the midst of COVID-19).Now in 2022,Sushi-Ramax Osaka Ramen has expanded with locations in DTC, Lone Tree, Aurora and inside Denver International Airport with another location set to open in Broomfield, Colo. in the summer of 2022