For more information, visit the Hollywood Casino Toledo’s website. My partners and I at the casino are proud to be able to share our staff, which has been curated from a joint passion for culinary arts and hospitality in the service industry. We welcome the guests to this urban lifestyle here in Toledo.”Ĭustomers are encouraged to follow Shobu’s Facebook and Instagram which will go live on Sunday, Jan. I hope that Shobu will be a place where guests share that same love. To open a third restaurant and follow in his big footprints is a challenge but one which I am honored to do with Hollywood Casino in this great city! Toledo has shared so much love with me and my family over the past 16 years. He is a recognized artist and culinary trailblazer. “My dad was at the forefront of Japanese cuisine in NYC and one of the first to bring sushi to America. “Making my dad proud and honoring the Kato name is always on my mind,” Chef Kengo Kato said. The press release says that the Shobu logo was hand painted by Papa K, Kengo’s father Isao Kato, and the name Shobu was chosen as a tribute to Kato.