Miku Restaurant reopened in its new location Monday night, June 24, following a multimillion-dollar investment to renovate part of the long-empty former Aqua Riva space at 200 Granville Street.
The upscale sushi restaurant's opening was part of a relocation that saw owner Seigo Nakamura close the six-year-old Miku location at 1055 West Hastings Street.
He also operates the 6,500-square-foot Japanese restaurant Minami in Yaletown, which he opened in June 2012 in the site where Kanke Seafood Restaurants formerly ran Goldfish.
Nakamura's new Miku will occupy 5,400 square feet of the approximately 9,000 square feet that had been Aqua Riva for 15 years until Toseki Entertainment Ltd. closed the high-end restaurant in July 2011.
Toseki's former director of operations, Geoffrey Howes, told Business in Vancouver at the time that Aqua Riva was closing partly because the site was too large and partly because the convention centre traffic had shifted west with the opening of the new convention centre.
