A Texas chain dedicated to Japanese teppanyaki is coming to San Antonio’s Far West Facet. Shogun Japanese Grill and Sushi Bar will open its first Alamo Metropolis restaurant at 111 SW Loop 410, the previous residence of Dimassi’s Mediterranean Buffet.
A renovation itemizing on the Texas Division of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) first leaked particulars on the upcoming challenge, however the Shogun web site confirms the upcoming opening. A request for extra data from the restaurant’s common supervisor was not returned in time for publication.
Shogun Japanese Grill and Sushi Bar is to not be confused with Shogun Japanese Steakhouse on Babcock Street, which closed in 2024. The brand new Shogun operates virtually two dozen Texas eating places, largely scattered throughout the Houston space.
It focuses on teppanyaki — also referred to as hibachi — the favored post-World Struggle II Japanese cooking fashion that makes use of an iron griddle to cook dinner meals. Shogun sears numerous greens and proteins, together with hen, calamari, steak, and salmon, usually pairing the meat with yakisoba.
The chain can also be identified for its bento bins with onion soup, salad, shrimp tempura, crab puffs, and harumaki (Japanese spring rolls). The large record of sushi consists of each conventional and fusion maki, hand-held temaki, sashimi, and nigiri.
The appetizer record is simply as complete. On-line guests can scroll by way of all of the anticipated choices (gyoza, edamame, hen katsu) to scorching charcoal grilled robata and some unique creations like Honey Moon, a combo of jalapeño, cream cheese, and snow crab.
In response to the TDLR submitting, the restaurant plans so as to add an extra 2,860 sq. ft of eating house to Dimassi’s former constructing. The Houston-based buffet chain quietly shuttered the situation in summer season 2023, however nonetheless operates an outpost off De Zavala Street.
The TDLR timeline states that building shall be wrapped up in early April 2026, however that’s no agency indication of the particular opening. This text shall be up to date ought to the Shogun rep present any additional data.
