The word inauspicious has appeared in 41 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 21 in “He’s the Only 3-Michelin-Starred Chef in Seoul. Don’t Cross Him” by Daisuke Wakabayashi:
In 2016, Mr. Anh opened his first restaurant in San Francisco called Mosu, a play on the Korean pronunciation of cosmos, a flower that grew in a field near his childhood home in South Korea. Mosu offered a tasting menu for $195, a record high for a new restaurant in the city.
In a column for The San Francisco Chronicle, the restaurant critic Michael Bauer said he was shocked at the “audacity of the pricing out of the gate” considering that “chef-owner Sung Anh doesn’t have much name recognition.”
Despite the inauspicious start, Mosu was awarded one Michelin star, an impressive achievement for a new restaurant, and the reservation book at the 18-seat hideaway was consistently full. But Amy In, Mr. Anh’s wife, said this was a challenging time.
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