IOU Sushi III, the all-you-can-eat restaurant that spent close to a decade feeding Tucson diners near Oracle Road and Limberlost Drive, has closed. The restaurant at 4280 N. Oracle Road Suite 180 is now listed as permanently closed, ending a run that began in early 2017.
The owners broke the news in a Facebook post on Sept. 29, according to Tucson Foodie, which did not share a reason for the shutdown. “This is the hardest post I’ve had to write,” the owners said, thanking customers for about 10 years of support and adding that they had met great friends who became family along the way.
A Decade on North Oracle Road
The restaurant first opened at the end of January 2017 as IOU Sushi IV, tucked into a shopping center near Oracle Road and Limberlost Drive. Over time, the name changed to IOU Sushi III, the same report notes. Tucson Foodie said it first visited the restaurant back in 2017, not long after it opened.
Ownership ties stretched all the way to Idaho. Rocky Holden of Boise owned the Tucson location as the fourth IOU Sushi restaurant, while his cousin, Gerner Poll, ran the day-to-day operations in Tucson, per the same account. An earlier Tucson.com report from 2017, however, identified the Boise-based relative differently, naming him Rocketchun Holden and stating he had opened three IOU Sushi restaurants in Boise — a discrepancy that remains unresolved between the two accounts…