A New Japanese Restaurant With Affordable Omakases Opens in South Austin

A new Japanese restaurant offering several affordable omakase options opened in Austin this fall. Tancho Sushi opened within the Lantana Place development at 7415 Southwest Parkway, Building 4, Suite 300 in the West Oak Hill neighborhood on October 10.

The restaurant offers various omakase menus for lunch and dinner, where people can pick their selection depending on what they want. Typically, the sets come with salads, sashimi, nigiri, and a hand roll. There’s the grand omakase ($54 for lunch and $59 during dinner), the regular omakase ($34 at lunch and $39 dinner), the light omakase with fewer dishes ($24 lunch and $29 dinner), and the hand roll one ($31 at lunch and $36 for dinner). There are also a la carte appetizers, nigiri, and rolls, plus house-made soy sauce and ponzu. (The price points are reminiscent of Austin’s other affordable omakase Uroko.) For drinks, there are sakes, wines, and beers.

Tancho Sushi

The name stems from the tancho koi. Two of the fish feature in its logo. The restaurant’s physical space was designed by architecture firm Chioco Design and design agency Helms Workshop, with indoor booths, banquettes, and bar seats, wood-paneled walls, a tiled counter-window section into the kitchen

Executive chef Jc Dominguez is overseeing the kitchen. Previously, he had worked at Japanese and sushi restaurants on the East Coast, including Sugarfish, DOMODOMO, Shikku, and Sushi Seki. Then there’s general manager Steven Min, who managed sushi restaurants out in Southern California, such as the Boiling Crab.

Tancho is the first restaurant under the new company Double V Hospitality, which is run by co-owners and co-founders Samit Varma (who founded the Los Angeles-based chain Pizza Studio) and Brad Van Otterloo. The two picked far southwest Austin because of “its vibrant energy and an identified need for elevated dining options,” per reps for the restaurant, and that the company “recogniz[ed] the area’s limited sushi offerings.” It’s found in the same plaza as theater chain Moviehouse, Chinese restaurant Ling Wu, Mexican restaurant La Popular, Italian restaurant La Traviata, and others.

Tancho’s hours are from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s a walk-in restaurant only (no reservations are available). There are indoor dine-in services.

Tancho Sushi

Tancho Sushi