{"id":238383,"date":"2026-03-27T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238383\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:52:08","slug":"make-fish-reopens-in-midtown-after-five-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238383\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Fish reopens in midtown after five-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SAC service chyron opening today soon restaurant business.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Opening Today sign using a chalkboard with lettering.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Make Fish Market has announced its reopening after a five-year \u201chiatus,\u201d with a soft opening today at their midtown location at 1801 L St. from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWUqTk_EuDC\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">according to a post on the business\u2019s social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant, which is part of the Saigon Alley group, is the rebranded version of Make Fish Poke and Sushi Burrito, which occupied the same location from 2013 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/food-drink\/article239378508.html\">until its closure in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV17aNJksnc\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">According to a social media post<\/a>, Make Fish is \u201creturning refreshed and reimagined, ready to welcome you all with the same love and aloha that started it all.\u201d It goes on to say that it is returning \u201cwith everything you loved plus a few surprises we picked up along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owner Mymy Nguyen opened the inaugural location of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saigonalley.com\/\">sister restaurant Saigon Alley Kitchen &amp; Ba<\/a>r in an adjacent location in the same building around the same time Make Fish closed in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Saigon Alley now also has a location in Natomas. At one point, it also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/food-drink\/restaurants\/article302379574.html\">briefly opened a location in Folsom last year<\/a>, but it has since closed. Nguyen also owns restaurants Sit Lo Saigon, with locations in Davis and Elk Grove, and Valley Hi\/North Laguna\u2019s Saigon 88.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen briefly opened a high-end sushi concept in the Make Fish spot called Okesutura, which initially offered a $195 omakase, a Japanese term for a fixed-price, chef-designed meal. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/food-drink\/restaurants\/article292381269.html\">It closed less than a year later in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/312888885\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img-25-11-14-4EC66.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Sean Timberlake\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/312888885\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Timberlake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Sean Timberlake is the food and dining reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He has been writing professionally for nearly 30 years, and about food for 20. A variety of well-known outlets have published his work, including Food Network, Cooking Channel, CNN, Sunset Magazine and SF Weekly.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make Fish Market has announced its reopening after a five-year \u201chiatus,\u201d with a soft opening today at their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[107439,107437,19526,85150,121,123,122,107438],"class_list":["post-238383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-1801-l-st","tag-make-fish","tag-midtown","tag-poke","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sushi-burrito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}