InsideHook Features Executive Chef Shawn Nakagawa in Father's Day Chef Roundup

Published on June 16, 2026

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Hideout at The Laylow's Executive Chef, Shawn Nakagawa, was featured in InsideHook's Father's Day roundup, "The Most Important Food Your Dad Ever Made," alongside 38 other chefs from across the country. Chef Nakagawa shared a personal memory of his father's fried rice omelet — a weekend tradition from his childhood that he later realized, after attending culinary school, required far more technique and skill than he understood as a kid. He described the dish as one he looked forward to eating with his father every weekend, and noted that only after culinary school did he learn the level of skill needed to make a proper French trifold omelet.

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