{"id":417772,"date":"2026-08-27T00:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417772\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:54:18","slug":"fort-worth-restaurant-will-reopen-nearly-three-years-after-hotel-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417772\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth restaurant will reopen nearly three years after hotel explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearly three years after an explosion inside the Sandman Signature Hotel&#8217;s basement rocked downtown, the Asian fusion restaurant, Musume, announced plans to reopen in early November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The January 2024 explosion left 21 people injured and nearly leveled the hotel, which is also planning to reopen this year, according to the hotel&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a statement shared with WFAA, Musume officials say the Japanese concept was being reimagined with a sleek, modern design, fresh sushi flown in daily from Japan, and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Multiple lawsuits;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/fort-worth-hotel-explosion-lawsuits-mount\/287-d71c4e54-2377-4ee1-b9e3-2e5351e996f0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple lawsuits\u00a0<\/a>were filed by victims, including employees of Musume, against property owners, management companies and gas suppliers, alleging in part that reports of a gas odor were ignored. Those lawsuits are still pending. The <a data-ylk=\"slk:official cause of the blast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/tarrant-county\/surveillance-video-from-inside-sandman-hotel-shows-explosion-lawsuits-filed-on-hold\/287-8eaf4ac7-902d-40de-8705-b28c6e4a8649\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">official cause of the blast<\/a> has also not been determined, though investigators did find characteristics of a natural gas explosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Musume is reopening at its original location, in the lower levels of the W.T. Waggoner Building, at 810 Houston St.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three years after an explosion inside the Sandman Signature Hotel&#8217;s basement rocked downtown, the Asian fusion restaurant,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,145595],"class_list":["post-417772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fusion-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}