The word “hamburger” is not often associated with top ingredients, top service and good design. But Tokyo’s Golden Brown hamburger outlets defy all stereotypes. It was three years ago that Nobuya Hisatomi founded Golden Brown in a small corner shop space in Nakameguro, with a neon-free interior and old-fashioned signage hand-painted by artist NUTS. A second outlet in Omotesando followed and today, the firm’s 16 staff make 2,600-plus burgers a week.
