Serramonte Center Restaurants in Daly City: What’s Open

If you've scrolled past a headline about Serramonte Center this year, you've likely seen the announcements. Koi Palace is moving in with a koi pond. Cheesecake Factory is coming. So is a Brazilian steakhouse, a hot pot chain, and a katsu spot nobody in the Bay Area has tried yet. Since early 2025, announcements have described the planned food tenants and their projected opening dates.

As of September 2026, one new food concept has opened; the other announced tenants remain planned or under construction.

The New Concept That's Open

Jagalchi is open, and it's worth the drive. The 75,000-square-foot Korean market took over the space that sat empty for six years after JCPenney closed in 2019, and it opened its doors on March 28, 2025, after two rounds of construction delays pushed the date from an original end-of-2024 target.

Inside, it's less a grocery store than a food hall built around one. There's a seafood and butcher counter, an oyster bar, a cocktail bar, and Basquia Bakery, a gluten-free bakery serving castella cake and rice-flour breads. At the center of the floor is POGU, a restaurant run by chef Tony Yoo, who trained at San Francisco's Michelin-starred Aqua and later served as head chef at the Korean Embassy during the 2012 London Olympics. KRON4 quoted Yoo on shopping the same aisles his kitchen draws from: "If I want cabbage, I got it. If I need more beef, I can get them there." (KRON4)

You can visit Jagalchi today.

Koi Palace's Opening Timeline

The name attached to nearly every Serramonte headline is Koi Palace, and it's also the clearest example of how far the announced schedule has drifted from what's on the ground.

The relocation was first reported in January 2025, when the dim sum institution's co-owner said the new location was expected to open by December of that year. The space, on the east side of the mall where a Wet Seal, a Subway, and a Starbucks used to be, is roughly double the size of the original restaurant, built out to 20,000 square feet with room for 760 to 800 guests. The Starbucks that used to occupy part of that footprint relocated next to the mall's Chick-fil-A.

December came and went. Regency Centers, the company that owns Serramonte, then told local reporters the opening had shifted to the first quarter of 2026. A Bay Area food preview published in the first weeks of September 2026 still lists the relocation as upcoming, on Serramonte's own social media, alongside renderings of the koi pond and LED wall art. As of this writing, the mall's own store directory still marks the listing "Coming Soon."

What that means in practice: if you want Koi Palace's dim sum tonight, you're still driving to the original location at 365 Gellert Boulevard, the one that's been serving the neighborhood since 1996.

Five Other Planned Food Tenants

Koi Palace isn't the only concept stuck in the pipeline. A Serramonte spokesperson told a local outlet in August 2026 that six new food tenants were in the works for the mall. Besides Koi Palace, that list includes:

• The Cheesecake Factory, taking over the former Buffalo Wild Wings space, with a company spokesperson describing a winter opening
• Fogo de Chão, which would be the Brazilian steakhouse chain's third Bay Area location
• Haidilao, a Chinese hot pot chain already established in Fremont and Cupertino
• Marugame Udon, expanding a footprint that already includes San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto
• Kin No Katsu, which would mark the concept's first Bay Area location

None of these had opened as of the most recent reporting. If you're mapping out where to eat this month, treat every one of these as a future plan rather than tonight's dinner.

Serramonte's Food-Tenant Build-Out

The former JCPenney anchor space at Serramonte sat fully vacant for six years before Jagalchi signed on. The center is now adding named food tenants in stages, with some construction underway and others still planned. Its existing tenant mix, which includes Macy's, Target, Nordstrom Rack, and Dick's Sporting Goods alongside the food court, remains in place while construction continues.

The gap between the announcement and the ribbon-cutting is longer than the initial projections suggested.

What's Open This Week

If you're planning an evening or a Saturday around Serramonte right now, here's what you can count on without checking a construction timeline first:

• Jagalchi, for the market, POGU, and Basquia Bakery
• The existing food court, including MOD Pizza, Panda Express, and Yoshi Ramen & Sushi, all unaffected by the new construction
• The Saturday farmers market, held on the Serramonte grounds starting around 9 a.m.
• Koi Palace's original dining room at 365 Gellert Boulevard, still open on its regular hours

If you want to round out a fall weekend beyond the mall, the Cow Palace on Geneva Avenue has a rodeo with dates you can actually put in your calendar. The Grand National Rodeo runs Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 10, 2026, with Friday's program starting at 5:30 p.m.

The Practical Takeaway

Serramonte's new food tenants are arriving in stages. If you're deciding where to eat this week rather than next year, options include Jagalchi, the food court that's already there, and a drive to Gellert Boulevard for dim sum. The remaining announced tenants are future plans.

For Daly City residents who've watched the city evolve for years, that kind of patience is familiar. Big changes here tend to arrive in stages, not all at once, and the neighborhood is usually better for the wait once they land.

If you're curious how retail growth like this tends to ripple into home values and buyer interest around Daly City, Nick Villanueva tracks those shifts alongside the neighborhood itself and is always glad to talk through what's changing on the ground here.