{"id":350081,"date":"2026-06-13T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=350081"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:27:15","slug":"square-enix-opens-its-first-us-cafe-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/square-enix-opens-its-first-us-cafe-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix Opens Its First US Cafe This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in April, I wrote about Square Enix\u2019s first everlasting Cafe &#038; Shop coming to america, and on the time I said that as someone based in Southern California, the Los Angeles location immediately caught my eye. Well, it\u2019s finally here. The Square Enix Cafe &#038; Shop Los Angeles starts with a soft opening on Saturday, June 13, followed by a grand opening on Saturday, June 20.<\/p>\n<p>The June 13 soft opening runs a limited menu of themed drinks, entrees, and desserts inspired by franchises like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and NieR:Automata. The total menu lineup arrives with the grand opening on June 20. Reservations for each the soft-opening period and the grand opening can be found now through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqexcafeandshopla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the official Square Enix Cafe &#038; Shop Los Angeles website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the cafe is an adjoining merchandise shop, and you may browse it without making a dining reservation or buying anything from the cafe itself. The shop carries official Square Enix merchandise, including exclusive items just like the L.A. Chocobo and L.A. Slime T-shirts, which feature commemorative artwork made to mark the primary everlasting Square Enix Cafe &#038; Shop within the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles location sits at 316 E 1st Street in Little Tokyo and is operated by J-Pop Culture Cafe Inc., a subsidiary of Little Akihabara Holdings, which focuses on recreating authentic Japanese-style themed cafes for American audiences. Operating hours, together with reservation and walk-in details, are listed on the official site.<\/p>\n<p>When these cafes were first announced, I discussed that I\u2019d visited the Eorzea Cafe in Osaka back in 2022 and was looking forward to creating a stop on the Los Angeles location once it opened. Now I would finally get the prospect.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I wrote about Square Enix\u2019s first everlasting Cafe &#038; Shop coming to america, and on the time I said that as someone based in Southern California, the Los Angeles location immediately caught my eye. Well, it\u2019s finally here. The Square Enix Cafe &#038; Shop Los Angeles starts with a soft opening on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1673,12434,553,3067,3047],"class_list":["post-350081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-cafe","tag-enix","tag-opens","tag-square","tag-weekend"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350084,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350081\/revisions\/350084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}