A little more than a year after leaving its home in San Francisco’s Mission District, Prubechu, the city’s only Guamanian restaurant, returns to the neighborhood on Tuesday with a new, larger space and a focus on family-style dining.

The restaurant occupies the space of Commonwealth, a popular Mission District restaurant that closed earlier this year

Prubechu, which first opened in San Francisco in 2014, operated for years with a tasting menu highlighting Chamorro fare — the food of Guam, which blends Japanese, Spanish, American and Filipino influences. The new iteration drops the tasting menu in favor of a la carte options and a $55 family-style menu.

Prubechu’s offerings include Chamorro empanadas with toasted rice, achiote and mushrooms; bone-in short ribs braised with garlic; and the Chamorro dish tinaktak, or coconut-braised beef.

(Full menu can be found here)

The owners, Shawn Camacho and Shawn Naputi, both from Guam, plan to offer alcohol, though they have yet to determine when that will happen, so none will be served initially. Prubechu debuted as dinner-only but will eventually have quick-service lunch and brunch.

Camacho and Naputi worked with a local architecture firm, D-Scheme Studio, on the design of the 1,5000-square-foot, roughly 40-seat space. The kitchen is larger than the original Prubechu location, where cooking was done mostly on induction burners.

“Now we have a full fryer, a six-top burner, a combi-oven. And for the first time we have a true walk-in,” Camacho said. “We’re just super excited about what we have, and it’s going to let us offer so much more in terms of an experience for people.”

Camacho said moving into Commonwealth was a relatively smooth experience. The one notable hiccup involved the exterior of the building, which was known for a weathered painted sign for the long-shuttered Hunt’s Donuts. Before they moved in, Camacho said he and Naputi were dealing with constant graffiti on the wall where the ad was located, so they decided to paint over it, which drew some ire from the neighborhood.

“People thought we were just some new business coming into the Mission just to make a mark, and that wasn’t the case,” said Camacho, who with Naputi has talked to local artists about potentially replacing the sign with something new.

Prubechu’s reopening puts an end to a 12-month journey that began with the restaurant vacating its space roughly six blocks away. It struggled to find a new home and almost partnered with chef Daniel Patterson, known for the fine-dining restaurant Coi in North Beach.

If all goes as planned, Prubechu will be more than a restaurant, Camacho said: They envision it as an educational space for those interested in learning about Guamanian culture. Guam is the largest of the Mariana Islands chain and has a history of colonialism with roughly 400 years of its history marked by a trio of colonial powers including Japan, Spain and the U.S. Guamanian cuisine is hence a blend of global flavors.

“We’re opening the windows to this place to let people know we’re inviting the whole neighborhood in,” Camacho said. “We want people to see what we’re doing and what we’re all about.”

Prubechu: Open Monday to Thursday 5-10 p.m. and Friday to Saturday 5-11 p.m. 2224 Mission St., San Francisco. 415-853-0671 or www.prubechu.com

Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @JustMrPhillips