Sprouts & Shutters: Flame Broiler, Yakitori Hiroshi, Expressions Dance and More

Wondering what’s moving into your neighborhood shopping center? Our weekly Sprouts & Shutters column highlights the latest Tri-Valley restaurant, retail and other business news.

The Flame Broiler, a “healthy” California-based fast-food chain, plans to open by early November in the Danville Livery. The new Korean-style eatery specializes in meat and veggie bowls prepared with no dairy, frying, skin or trans-fat. View the Flame Broiler’s menu at flamebroilerusa.com. Flame Broiler replaces the recently closed Danville Grill.

Opening Update: Tal’s Patisserie, previewed in a July Sprouts, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"sprouts-shutters-tal-s-patisserie-fair-trade-designs-lush-cosmetics-and-more"} -->, is now open in the Danville Livery.

Green Valley Chinese Restaurant on Crow Canyon Place recently closed — at least temporarily. Brown paper now covers the windows and a peek inside shows a complete gutting of the interior. It’s not clear yet whether the owners are renovating the restaurant or if a new one take its place. Stay tuned.

Haven’t yet sampled San Ramon’s Schubros Brewery beer? The elusive new brewery’s latest beer, Festbier, will soon appear in East Bay grocery, liquor and convenience stores, including Draegers in Danville. But you’ll want to hurry: The brewery is releasing just 120 cases and 100 kegs of its new Oktoberfest brew. For a list of stores and restaurants selling Schubros beer, go to schubrosbrewery.com/your-brews--where-to-buy.html.

Yakitori Hiroshi is expected to open this fall in Dublin’s Ulferts Center, replacing Singapore Old Town Café that closed earlier this year. A spokesperson at Ulferts says the new Japanese eatery will specialize in Japanese-style barbecue. (Yakitori refers to grilled chicken skewers popular in Japan.)

Expressions Dance & Arts celebrated its grand opening Sept. 8 next to The Hop Yard in Pleasanton’s Hopyard Village Plaza. The new dance studio for children and adults offers ballet, tap, hip hop, jazz and zumba plus art lessons and “mommy & me” classes. Expressions Dance also limits each class to 12 students to focus on individual instruction. For details and a class schedule, visit expressions-dance-arts.com.

will host an event to benefit Special Olympics this Saturday. on Pleasanton Patch.

A couple Pleasanton closures to report, too: Pleasanton’s on Bernal, closed in August. And plans to close Sept. 30. (For more about that closure, read Patch's