Hinoya Curry

Hinoya Curry holds the Grand Prix title for best curry in Japan, which makes it the best Japanese curry in the world! We are on a mission to introduce this award-winning curry to the U.S. starting with San Francisco.

Winner of Kanda Curry Grand Prix
Inducted into Curry Hall of Fame
Over 80 locations worldwide

• Second location buildout: $50,000
• Curry spice supply: $91,000
• Mainvest Compensation: $9,000

Thomas Uehara, CEO
Thomas is from San Francisco and went to Japan in 1990 after graduating from University of California, Berkeley. What was supposed to be a one year trip turned into 30+ years. During his time in Japan, he mastered the language and the culture.Thomas held leadership roles throughout his career and brought solutions to bridge gaps that exist especially in organizations working in a diverse global environment. By possessing a bi-cultural perspective, Thomas excelled at identifying gaps or "opportunities".Japanese food has seen a wide acceptance around the world in the past few decades with ramen being the recent craze in the U.S. Thomas realized that most popular dishes in Japan were available in the U.S.; however, Japanese curry was not widely known by most people. When people think of curry, they associate it to Indian or Thai, but not Japanese. This "gap" was the starting point of the journey to bring an authentic Japanese curry to the U.S.

Barry Louie, COO
Barry spent his childhood in Hawaii and his formative years in Sacramento. After graduating from University of California, Davis, he moved to Japan in 1994 and spent the next 26 years streamlining operations for Japanese and international organizations in hospitality and travel tech. Barry brings relevant experience from travel tech and online sales to scale an organization for rapid growth.