Stephen Starr, one of the country’s top restaurateurs, and Chef Masaharu Morimoto, star of television’s immensely popular cooking show Iron Chef, opened Morimoto, a brilliant restaurant featuring contemporary Japanese cuisine, at 723 Chestnut Street.

To complete their visionary team and develop the original concept, Starr hired world-renowned designer Karim Rashid.

Throughout the space, he blends traditional Japanese design with organic and sensual elements.

With his cutting-edge design, Rashid stimulates and awakens the senses.

“Rashid’s unusual surroundings set the stage for the inspired cuisine of Chef Morimoto,” says Starr, who is credited with bringing two other high-concept Asian restaurants, Buddakan and Pod, to Philadelphia.

At the edge of the Marico River and under a grove of Tamboti and Marula trees alike, you will find yourself enchanted by a world of intrigue and majestic beauty.

Madikwe Hills is where the plains still team with game and the acacia savannah symbolizes a paragon of beauty.

Black rhino roam freely amongst the Big 5. Giraffe gallop across the plains at sunset and zebra call out to one another in the early hours of the morning, after enduring a night of the “savage beast” upon the plains – lion.

After a mere 45 minute flight from Gauteng, or a scenic four hour drive, you will be met by our warm and friendly staff in the main reception area.

It is here where you can select gifts for your friends and family back home from our curio shop, which boasts a breath-taking view of the boulders and rocks of Madikwe Hills – open landrovers with bucket seats and fold-down armrests stand ready to take you on safari.