Construction has begun on a Japanese restaurant thats expected to open in December at the former Bakers Square restaurant site at 1227 Crossing Meadows Drive in Onalaska.

Work began this month on the Shogun Sushi and Hibachi restaurant, said Jeffrey Brown of North Rock Real Estate, a commercial real estate advisory firm in Minnetonka, Minn. He is assisting the eaterys owners, who live in the Twin Cities and own several other Japanese restaurants.

Construction work on Shogun originally was expected to begin last fall, with the eatery opening by early this summer. But the projects design was put on the back burner because the owners were busy opening a new restaurant in Burnsville, Minn., Brown said.

Shogun will serve a variety of upscale Japanese cuisine, Brown said, including seafood, steak, chicken and vegetable courses with a Japanese flavor. There will be a large sushi menu and sushi bar.

All of the ingredients are extremely fresh and high quality, Brown said. Especially the seafood, which is flown in fresh. The approximately 6,000-square restaurant will have 14 hibachi tables.

Owner Maria Norberg plans to expand Grounded Specialty Coffee at 308 Main St. to the west, onto a vacant lot at 304-306 Main St. in downtown La Crosse.

The expansion would transform Grounded from a coffee shop into a full restaurant available for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with a full coffee and wine bar, she said in her application for an exception to city building requirements.

The expansion would include indoor and outdoor seating on the ground level, and partially covered and open air seating on a terrace above the addition. About half of the proposed terrace would be below the citys minimum two-story height requirement for new construction downtown. The La Crosse Common Council likely will vote Sept. 11 on Norbergs request for an exception.

If the council approves, I would like to start construction next spring and have the new addition open and running by early summer, Norberg told me. I plan to keep the name of Grounded but would drop Specialty Coffee since we would be a full-service restaurant with a full coffee and wine bar as well.

Three sisters and a daughter have opened Curvy Chicks Consignment LLC at 123 W. Hamilton St. in West Salem.

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