{"id":165917,"date":"2026-03-17T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:39:09","slug":"gasho-of-japan-hibachi-steakhouse-closes-in-hauppauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165917\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasho of Japan hibachi steakhouse closes in Hauppauge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gasho of Japan, a hibachi steakhouse that was a longtime staple of the Hauppauge restaurant scene, has served its last meal.<\/p>\n

Richard Buono, of Island Associates Real Estate Inc. told Newsday the restaurant had closed in January. It had opened in Hauppauge in 1984.<\/p>\n

The building, located at 356\u00a0Vanderbilt Motor Pkwy, was put up for sale by the owner after the business ceased operations, Buono told Newsday in a phone interview. Buono said he is working directly with the purchaser.<\/p>\n

“Their tenants … could no longer afford to maintain the building,” Buono said of its former owners. “The business wasn’t performing.”<\/p>\n

The sale is currently in negotiations, Buono said.<\/p>\n

Like other restaurants that have closed on Long Island, Gasho struggled to keep up with increasing utility and maintenance bills among\u00a0a changing culture, Buono said.<\/p>\n

Gasho\u2019s hibachi-style experience, where a chef cooks food in front of patrons, is no longer as unique as it was when it first opened, Buono said, as many similar restaurants have since opened in the area. <\/p>\n

“The industry changed,” Buono said. “At one time, it was a special place to go get hibachi cuisine, and you couldn’t go anywhere else.”<\/p>\n

Buono said keeping a restaurant afloat is generally harder nowadays due to a decline in lunch rushes. Young people on Long Island also drink less alcohol compared to previous generations, Newsday previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The property appeared eerily quiet in Monday morning\u2019s strong winds. A light post on its side walkway had been knocked down\u00a0and garbage lay strewn about on its front lawn.<\/p>\n

No signs about its closing were posted on the front doors.<\/p>\n

Gasho of Japan opened in Hauppauge\u00a0part of a small chain\u00a0with the same name created by Shiro Aoki,\u00a0according to Newsday records. Aoki’s family founded the Benihana restaurant chain. The Hauppauge restaurant was a replica of the original location in upstate Central Valley\u00a0which opened in 1971.<\/p>\n

The small chain also had locations in Westchester, Denver, and St. Louis, according to an advertisement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gasho\u2019s owner could not be immediately reached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maureen Mullarkey is a breaking news reporter at Newsday. She previously worked as a reporter for Patch, where she covered a range of Long Island stories on topics such as the Diocese of Rockville Centre bankruptcy and the Babylon School District abuse scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gasho of Japan, a hibachi steakhouse that was a longtime staple of the Hauppauge restaurant scene, has served…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,8696,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":["post-165917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-feedme","tag-fmclose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}