Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse at the Mall at Chestnut Hill has closed its doors after nearly a decade of serving up steak, teppanyaki, and sushi to Boston-area patrons. Boston Restaurant Talk reported the shuttering, citing confirmation by the Friends of Boston's Hidden Restaurants Facebook group and a permanent closure status on OpenTable.
Details on why the restaurant closed are currently scarce as chefs’ knives on a Monday morning, the establishment hasn't served up a statement. Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse, a fixture since 2013. now the space it occupied stands bare, a new tenant has yet to announce a takeover.
The restaurant's website remnants still invite diners to "contact us for reservations, questions, or comments," Celebratory dinners, business lunches, and families gathered around teppanyaki grills, now stilled, all part of the Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse tapestry woven through years of service in Newton, Massachusetts.
