(CNN) — It was perhaps the biggest shock of this year's annual Michelin star ratings.
The Araki , a sushi restaurant in London's Mayfair, had been stripped of all three of its Michelin stars.
Araki -- who had previously owned a three-star restaurant in Tokyo, and won his first star in London within a year of opening the restaurant -- had moved to Hong Kong in March 2019 to open another restaurant.
"What we hope the public understands that Master Araki has left the sushi-ya to the team that has followed him since the beginning.
The Araki isn't the only London restaurant to be dropped from the guide.