Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oceanaire's replacement already announced!

Wow! that didn't take long....
Mr. Sushi coming to 580 Building
Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Lisa Biank Fasig Courier staff reporter
Less than a week after upscale restaurant Oceanaire closed without warning, a new fish eatery is coming to the 580 Building downtown, with a three-month’s heads up.
The 2,900-square-foot restaurant, to be called Mr. Sushi, will bring a welcome tenant to the ground floor of the recently renovated building after it lost Oceanaire on July 6. It also will add to the high-profile corner of Walnut and Sixth streets, where the restaurant Nada operates next to the former Maisonette, which also will likely reopen as an eatery, possibly operated by Nada chef David Falk.
Mr. Sushi will be operated by Dayton restaurateur Jin Kim, who owns the Iron Chef Grill on Fields Ertel Road, and Sushi Café in Dayton. He plans to open by late October or early November.
Kim said he had been looking for a spot downtown or nearby, such as in Hyde park, for a few years. Now that he has a place, he is disappointed that Oceanaire has closed, but perhaps it will offer expansion opportunities down the road.
“I like having somebody else in the same building,” he said. “I’m the only restaurant right now, it feels a little lonely.”
The restaurant will feature a sushi bar and offer traditional Japanese and Korean dishes such as tempura and teriyaki and bibimbab, a mixture of rice, vegetables, egg and meat in a bowl. It will seat a little more than 80 people.
Judie Guttadauro, with downtown-based Realty Network Plus, brokered the deal.
“I just wanted him downtown so desperately,” she said. “I love sushi, and we don’t have anything like that.”
Oceanaire opened June 2, 2008, featuring fresh seafood in a 1930s-era setting.

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