City: Shreveport, LA

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (318) 798-1001

Address: 1409 East 70th St.

Description: Specializing in teppanyaki-style Japanese cooking, the expert and entertaining chefs at Shogun prepare your choice of beef, chicken, fish, and vegetarian dishes at your table. Actually, you sit around the iron grill as you sip the beverage of your choice and enjoy the show. All entrees will be accompanied by soup, salad, vegetables, and steamed rice. Only simple seasonings are used, allowing the freshness of the ingredients to tantalize your senses. A great opportunity for each member of your family to make a different selection from the menu and then pass the plates around the table. The chef’s special—shrimp & teriyaki chicken—is grand. The steaks will encourage you to shout “Hai, hai, hai!” (Yes, yes, yes!). The decor is definitely Japanese, but relaxed, with each establishment capable of serving 300 persons. Private dining is also available. Sushi lovers, you are in luck; an extensive selection of some of the freshest fish from around the world awaits you at the bar. The super deluxe combination sushi dinner includes tuna, salmon, yellow tail, flounder, squid, octopus, shrimp, egg, smelt roe, eel, and California roll; a local favorite since 1987. Open Mon through Thurs, 5 to 10 p.m. and closing on Fri and Sat nights at 11 p.m. Open Sun from 5 to 9 p.m.