Gasho of Japan (also Gasho Hibachi Steakhouse) was a chain of Japanese-style steakhouse restaurants located in Central Valley, New York, Hawthorne, New York, Hauppauge, New York, Ridgefield, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. Restaurants were known for teppanyaki steak dinners and entertaining chefs performing theatrical knife-work. In 2003, five Gasho of Japan restaurants were doing business under the name.Gasho Hibachi Steakhouse Locations, Internet Archive; https://web.archive.org/web/20030622050111/http://www.gasho.com:80/locations.asp
The original Gasho of Japan restaurants were opened by Shiro Aoki,"People and Places," Rocky Mountain JIHO, Volume 16, Number 15, July 27, 1977; https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMJ19770727-01.2.7 younger brother of Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki, who opened the first Benihana restaurants in the United States.
Former locations
A Gasho Hibachi Steakhouse inside a replica Gasshou-style farmhouse operated in Central Valley, New York, from 1971 to 2017."Gasho Steakhouse closes after 46 years," Times Herald-Record, May 24, 2017; https://web.archive.org/web/20250930013657/https://www.recordonline.com/story/business/2017/05/24/gasho-steakhouse-closes-after-46/20800394007/ Their last remaining location in Hauppauge, New York closed in late-2025.
Gasho of Japan restaurants also operated in the Denver metropolitan area. A downtown location opened in 1973, overseen by restaurateur Kenny Sonoda."Sonoda’s will leave LoDo at the end of service tomorrow," Westword, February 14, 2014; https://web.archive.org/web/20250930013339/https://www.westword.com/food-drink/sonodas-will-leave-lodo-at-the-end-of-service-tomorrow-5771294/ A second location opened in 1978 inside a replica Gasshou-style Japanese farmhouse in the Denver Technological Center.Advertisement, page 146, The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 119, Number 272, January 19, 1978; https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19780119-01.2.340.3
See also Benihana Teppanyaki List of Japanese restaurants
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