Tetsuya's has snared one of the rising culinary stars of the north, with Josh Raine set to run the brigade at the Sydney central business district restaurant from early next year.

Raine recently left Urbane, the Brisbane restaurant where he was head chef.

Urbane, led by executive chef Alejandro Cancino, was one of the big winners in the national Good Food Guide's recent national expansion; one of only six restaurants awarded three hats in the guide and the highest-rated fine diner in Queensland.

Raine says he will take over from Tetsuya's current executive chef, Kevin Mok, who is leaving the restaurant at the end of the year.

Raine says Tetsuya Wakuda had been looking for a new replacement chef after Mok announced his decision to depart.

"Tets knows Shane Osborn [Arcane, Hong Kong, and ex Pied a Terre, London] quite well and Shane recommended me," he says.

The British-born Raine, who started in the kitchen of Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons, isn't daunted by his new brief.

"Some of the stuff we were doing at Urbane was quite Japanese," he says.