At the height of his fame, someone killed chef Masa Kobayashi at his San Francisco home.
The apartment complex at 1111 Pine St. in San Francisco where chef Masa Kobayashi was killed in 1983. He lived on the third floor.Chef Masa Kobayashi always walked home from work. After dinner service at Masa’s, his eponymous restaurant, he’d help lock up for the night before a 10-minute stroll up Bush Street to his apartment at 1111 Pine. On Nov. 13, 1983, he got home around 2 a.m. He waved goodnight to a building manager and headed up to his third-floor flat.
The next afternoon, worry pounded in the chest of John Cunin, the manager at Masa’s. As the clock approached 4:30 p.m., Cunin knew something was wrong. Kobayashi was never late — let alone three hours late. He decided to jog up to Kobayashi’s apartment and knock on the door. When he did, there was no reply, so Cunin found the building manager and asked him to unlock the door. There, in the entryway, was Kobayashi.
In short order, Auberge du Soleil turned into a culinary powerhouse under Kobayashi. But the fit wasn’t what he had hoped."Auberge was too big," he later told the Examiner."We served 200 people, lunch and dinner, plus big banquets. I can't do what I want to do for so many people." A view of Masa's, a restaurant opened by Masa Kobayashi in 1983. The restaurant occupied the bottom level of the Hotel Vintage Court in San Francisco's Union Square area."I have been cooking for 24 years. I have the knowledge and the body is still strong,” Kobayashi told the press in July 1983. “It is time for me."“Your crime scene tells you a story.
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