Shibuya . 4461 Willard Ave., Chevy Chase.

Shibuya Eatery, the Japanese restaurant in Adams Morgan serving sushi and hot pot, closed last fall. But starting this week, it’s been reinvented in Chevy Chase, Maryland as a fast-casual restaurant focused on customizable ramen, rice bowls, and salads.

Chef Darren Norris says he and his wife/co-owner Candice Wise-Norris decided to shut down the DC restaurant amid rising labor costs, soaring fish prices, and pushback over service fees. “It all just became tiring. It wasn’t profitable at all anymore for us,” he says. Ultimately, he felt a fast-casual model made more sense for the times: “No servers, no service fees, and no Initiative 82 in Maryland.”

While the model has changed, a lot of the ingredients and recipes are the same at the new Shib

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