Hanzo, a Japanese gastropub in Alamo Heights, all of the sudden closed its doorways this week, leaving prospects questioning what occurred.
“We’re quickly closed, thanks,” a letter posted exterior the enterprise reads.
Hypothesis swirled on-line that the closure is expounded to a lawsuit involving the Mahoney Bar Group, which based the ingesting and eating spot in 2017.
Hanzo, recognized for its handcrafted cocktails and happy-hour bites, hasn’t posted on-line to clarify the sudden closure. Nevertheless, a lawyer Mahoney Bar Group offered a press release to MySA stating that it’s solely quickly shuttered.
“Hanzo is at the moment present process renovations and is anticipated to reopen by Jan. 2, 2026,” stated the assertion shared by MySA. “Concerning the lawsuit, the matter has been amicably resolved by a settlement with phrases agreeable to all Events.”
Mahoney Bar Group has incurred a streak of misfortune for the reason that loss of life of majority associate Robert Darilek in 2024. Within the wake of his passing, Darilek’s household took over the group’s properties regardless of a scarcity of bar-management expertise.
Final fall, Darilek’s son, Trey Darilek, instructed the Present the takeover was essential because of associate Steve Mahoney’s poor monetary administration. The Present has been unable to achieve Mahoney for touch upon the matter.
Because the administration shift, the Mahoney Bar Group has closed a number of properties, beginning with 2024’s closure of Blue Field, a long-running lounge at The Pearl whose area now homes Greatest High quality Daughter proprietor Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin’s new cocktail idea, Jue Let.
“[T]he closure of Blue Field was one thing unlucky however unavoidable,” Trey Darilek instructed the Present final fall. Darilek is a former trucking-company proprietor and one-time NFL guard and heart who performed for Dallas, Philadelphia and Miami.
Darilek reloced from North Texas, and the household set to work paying again taxes the bars owed. Even so, state tax officers got here to Francis Bogside in August of final yr with a police escort to gather the rest owed at the moment.
On Sept. 28, Mahoney Bar Group all of the sudden closed each enterprise at Outpost Junction, a bar advanced in St. Paul Sq. that housed the redux of Francis Bogside (since christened Blessed Bogside) together with Vino Veritas (previously Anne’s Wine Bar), Frankie’s Roundup (previously The Station) and the Field, an up-and-coming — and actually underground — membership.
The group introduced the abrupt closure of the Outpost Junction venues in cross-shared Instagram put up that startled followers and gave little context for his or her departure.
“What? Each single venue???” Stephanie Guerra (@puropinchesa) requested within the feedback.
Given the speedy succession of closures of Mahoney Bar Group properties, it’s little shock some thought Hanzo was yet one more casualty. But when the closure is, in reality, momentary, then it seems the Alamo Heights spot might have prevented the identical destiny.
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