In addition, the lounge is the perfect venue for dinner and demo with one of our amazing chefs, Kent Rathbun, Stephen McHugh or Jimmy Duke.Īmenities include high speed wireless internet, 3 televisions with Apple TV, microphone, custom menus and more. The private bar and lounge is a great for entertaining large holiday and birthday parties, office parties, happy hours, and networking events. Our upstairs lounge is the perfect spot for up to 65 guests for a reception or 40 guests for a seated event. This beautifully designed room works great for presentations and business dinners, or even intimate birthday parties.Īmenities include high speed wireless internet, 60 in television with Apple TV, microphone, custom menus and more. Our private dining room can accommodate 40 people for a reception or up to 30 for a seated event. The next chapter for local legend, Chef Kent Rathbun, Imoto will not only wow your tastebuds, but the atmosphere will wow your senses. The restaurant is the little sister to no one, and stands alone atop the long list of Dallas’ culinary experiences. Update, June 15: This post has been updated to reflect the new opening date of Imoto.Imoto, meaning ‘little sister’ in Japanese, is located in Victory Park in Downtown Dallas. Chef Kent Rathbun wins the right to use his own name and likeness for now.Victory Park Adds Sushi and A Wine Bar to Its Parade of Forthcoming Restaurants.This summer, she’ll bring a second outpost of Shinsei to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D.Īccording to GuideLive, Imoto will open its doors on Friday, June 15. Kent Rathbun is joined in the project by his wife and restaurateur Tracy Rathbun, who currently operates beloved sushi restaurant Shinsei and Lovers Seafood and Market. That litigation was ultimately dismissed in March 2018, and the judge’s ruling says that “matters in dispute between the parties have been fully and finally compromised and settled.” In late 2017, a judge ruled that Rathbun could use his name in business ventures as long as he “doesn’t disparage his former partner,” according to the Southeast Texas Record. After leaving his iconic restaurant Abacus in 2016, Rathbun sued its owner, H2R Restaurant Holdings, in order to void an agreement that prohibited the chef from using his own name or likeness in future restaurant projects. The restaurant marks Kent Rathbun’s official return to the Dallas restaurant scene after a prolonged legal battle with his former business partners.
Everything about Imōto is geared to taking you to an exotic, cool locale.”
“Imōto is going to make you feel like you’re somewhere that you’ve never been,” Rathbun said in a statement. Chef Jennifer Newbold, who worked for the chef at Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen in the Park Cities, will lead the kitchen, and former Nobu sushi whiz Jimmy Duke will helm the sushi bar.
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The forthcoming restaurant will blend Asian cuisines, with a specific emphasis on Thai food based on Kent Rathbun’s travels to the country, and offer a full sushi bar, according to a press release. Restaurateur power duo Kent and Tracy Rathbun will soon open Imoto, an Asian eatery that will join the growing line-up of restaurants at Victory Park.