Serramonte Center's New Restaurants in Daly City: What's Open?

Kono Karaoke opened its first United States location inside Serramonte Center on September 18, a welcome new addition to a mall in the middle of a big food makeover. The other names in this year's headlines, the Koi Palace flagship, the Cheesecake Factory, the Brazilian steakhouse and the hot pot chain, are still on their way.

With so many announcements in the news, it's easy to lose track of which ones you can visit today. Six new restaurant concepts have been reported as coming to Serramonte since early 2025; the six discussed below remain in progress as of late September 2026. Kono Karaoke is a separate addition and is not included among those six concepts. Here is a guide to what's open now, what's coming, and where to eat in the meantime.

The Complex That's Actually Open

Another piece of this story you can walk into right now is Jagalchi, the 75,000-square-foot Korean market that anchors the mall's east side. It's not a single restaurant so much as three destinations sharing one building: the market itself, stocked with a seafood and butcher counter that runs from everyday cuts to Japanese A5 wagyu ribeye, a wall of instant ramyun, and a bulk aisle built around pantry staples like Gompyo wheat flour and Sempio soy sauce.

At the center of the store is Pogu, a sit-down restaurant led by Michelin-recognized chef Tony Yoo. Basquia Bakery rounds out the complex. Jagalchi's opening weekend drew an estimated almost 100,000 visitors, according to Ashley Jung, marketing manager for parent company Megamart, and Regency Centers, the firm that owns Serramonte, has said the traffic has lifted other tenants around it too.

This part of the food overhaul is real, it's open, and it's been open long enough that it's no longer news. Which is exactly why it gets buried under the names that are still pending.

Three Dates, One Restaurant

Koi Palace is the name doing the most work in every one of these headlines, and it's also the clearest example of how far an announced opening can drift from an actual one.

The new space, at 3 Serramonte Center in what used to hold a Wet Seal, a Subway, and a Starbucks, is roughly double the size of the current Koi Palace location on Gellert Boulevard, with room for 760 to 800 guests. That's a serious buildout, and mall redevelopments at that scale routinely run long. But if you've been holding off on a reservation waiting for the new room, the dim sum you actually want tonight is still on Gellert Boulevard, where the restaurant has operated since 1996.

The Six Names Still Under Construction

Koi Palace isn't alone. Peninsula Buzz reported in August 2026 that five other concepts are in the works for Serramonte: Cheesecake Factory, Fogo de Chão, Haidilao, Marugame Udon, and Kin No Katsu. None had opened as of that report, and none had opened as of this writing either.

Cheesecake Factory is taking over the former Buffalo Wild Wings space, with a company spokesperson pointing to a winter opening. That's the closest location for Daly City residents who currently drive to San Francisco or the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo to get it. Fogo de Chão, the Brazilian steakhouse, would be its third Bay Area location alongside San Francisco and Emeryville. Haidilao, the Chinese hot pot chain known for tableside entertainment, already has locations in Fremont and Cupertino and would make Serramonte its third. Kin No Katsu would be the concept's first Bay Area location entirely.

All of this sits inside a $37 million renovation Regency Centers has been running at the property, the kind of number that explains why so much of the mall looks like it's mid-transition rather than finished. The scale of the investment is real. The move-in dates just haven't caught up to the press releases yet.

What You Can Actually Eat This Week

None of this touches what's already been open and running the whole time. Serramonte's existing food court still has MOD Pizza, Panda Express, and Yoshi Ramen & Sushi, unaffected by any of the construction happening around them.

A few minutes away in Westlake, Original Joe's Westlake reopened after a two year renovation that redid the kitchen, the dining rooms, and the exterior landscaping from front to back. It's the same Italian-American menu the original Joe's Westlake served from 1956 until 2014, now running in a rebuilt room.

And if you'd rather shop for dinner than order it, Serramonte runs a certified farmers market behind Macy's every Thursday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A Weekend Plan That Doesn't Depend On Any of This

If you want a fall weekend plan that isn't waiting on a construction timeline, the Cow Palace on Geneva Avenue has one already locked in. The Grand National Rodeo returns Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 10, with Friday's program running from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The same weekend includes the Women of Rodeo showcase, an all-women competition in barrel racing and breakaway roping, alongside the Jr. Livestock Show.

It's a fixed date on a mall that's currently full of moving ones.

Serramonte's food hall is becoming something real. Jagalchi proved that with an opening weekend crowd estimated near 100,000 people. But six names on a leasing map aren't six restaurants, and the gap between the two has now stretched past a year for at least one of them. The practical version of the story, if you live here and you're deciding where to eat tonight rather than sometime next year, is to treat every one of those names as pending until you've seen the doors open yourself.

We track this kind of change in Daly City and Westlake block by block, not because a restaurant opening changes a home's value overnight, but because knowing what's actually happening here, not just what's been announced, is the same instinct that makes for a good local read on the market. If you want that same level of read on a specific street or a specific sale, The Sidhu Team is a phone call away.