Dallas omakase restaurant Shoyo is making a quick, short move up Greenville Avenue in East Dallas
The 12-seat restaurant closed at 1916 Greenville Ave. on July 26, 2026, at the culmination of the five-year lease. Founder and chef Jimmy Park will move his Japanese restaurant Shoyo to 2114 Greenville Ave., a 0.1-mile jaunt He hopes to reopen Shoyo within a month
From the outset, Shoyo was created to be an intimate restaurant for a dozen or so diners who are served 19 courses in about 90 minutes. The small number of customers at each seating at Shoyo will not change with the new location, Park told The Dallas Morning News
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Still, Shoyo “outgrew the space” it originated in, the chef said. Customers had little room to wait for their omakase seatings to begin, and there wasn’t a full bar where they could order a cocktail. Park is an exacting chef who has a clear vision for Shoyo
“I want customers to have a great experience, from A to Z,” Park said. The temperature, the music level, the design of the sushi bar and the lounge where customers wait need to be, in his word, “perfect.”
Price will remain the same for 19 courses, at $195 per person
Park said the new restaurant will “give Dallas a bigger, better version of myself.”
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Park is joined again at Shoyo by Shinichiro Kondo, his mentor and master chef. Shoyo’s menu will remain similar to what it was before, which Park describes as an “omakase journey” that features raw fish prepared simply, without intricate sauces or add-ons, like some other Japanese restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth offer
The new Shoyo moves into a Greenville Avenue restaurant space that was most recently Ocean Ranch, a short-lived Italian chophouse and seafood restaurant
Before that, it was fine-dining restaurant Carte Blanche and coffee shop Mudsmith
Park also once owned Kaiyo, a casual sushi restaurant on Greenville Avenue he created in 2023. He sold Kaiyo in 2025, saying it was difficult to operate two restaurants at the same time. Kaiyo has since transitioned into Mizu Sushi and Handroll and remains under separate ownership.
“I made the right call: I’ve been more stress free, focusing on Shoyo,” Park said
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“I have big plans for you guys.”
Shoyo will move to 2114 Greenville Ave., Dallas, and is expected to open in fall 2026. Reservations are not yet available at the new Shoyo. The original Shoyo at 1916 Greenville Ave., Dallas, is closed
