About Us
An exciting new dining experience brought to downtown Tacoma by the Puyallup Tribe in partnership with Chef Founder Roy Yamaguchi.
Food unites us.
Though Hawaii, Asia, and the Pacific Northwest may be thousands of miles apart, all three are tied together by the Pacific. While the ocean is wild and unknown, its bounty allows us to cook and create for one another. In doing so, we express something familiar and human.
At Woven, we bring this human experience to your table. We help you make new memories and spark new friendships, and we do it all by bringing the flavors of 21,903 islands together into a single incredible experience.
So join us by Commencement Bay in Tacoma as we unite the food cultures of many nations into a dining experience that is as memorable as it is delicious.
Join us where lū’au scents hang above the choreography of the kitchen counter.
Join us as we bring an ocean of flavors into familiar waters for you to enjoy with family and friends.
Join us and bring your own stories to our table so that we may add them to our tapestry of new culinary memories.
Welcome to Woven.
This is the fabric we use.
This is the pattern we weave.
This is the cloth we give back.
Kitchen to table,
how many memories has
the small plate carried?
Kitchen to table,
how many memories has
the small plate carried?
At Woven, our mission is to bring the flavors of the Pacific and the culture of the Puyallup Tribe to your plate. A task this important requires rare skill, experience, and precision so that it pays the proper homage to its rich culinary traditions.
Enter, Chef Founder Roy Yamaguchi and Executive Chef Dexter Mina.
A James Beard Award winner, founding member of the Hawaii Regional Cuisine movement, and the chef and founder of over 40 critically acclaimed restaurants, Chef Roy Yamaguchi is a fixed star in the firmament of Pacific cuisine. His culinary philosophy of unifying unique cultures reflects his upbringing; Roy’s father was born in Hawaii , his mother was born in Okinawa, and Roy himself was born and raised in Tokyo.
Chef Roy has showcased Hawaii-inspired cuisine to the world for over 40 years, eclipsed in length only by his lifelong love of cooking itself. Not only has he accomplished this showcase through his restaurants, he has done so through television (Top Chef Masters, Iron Chef) and through numerous philanthropic initiatives, including the Hawaii Food & Wine Festival, Roy Yamaguchi Annual Golf Classic, and the Tom and Warren Matsuda Scholarship Fund at the Culinary Institute of the Pacific.
Executive Chef Dexter Mina joins Chef Roy in bringing the bounty of the Pacific and its islands to your table.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Chef Dexter is a proud second-generation Filipino. He brings years of kitchen leadership and expertise to Woven, including Executive Sous Chef roles at Roy’s® Hawaii Kai and Roy’s® Waikiki. Chef Dexter has an expansive repertoire – not only was he brought up in the worlds of Filipino and Hawaii-inspired cuisine, he also worked at several Italian restaurants in Seattle, including a Sous Chef role at Autumn.
Chefs Roy and Dexter are the needle and thread of our culinary fabric, and we are grateful and humbled to join them in partnership with the Puyallup Tribe to weave indigenous flavors and traditions into the story of our restaurant.
