{"id":314161,"date":"2026-05-13T20:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:14:22","slug":"flora-santana-row-gets-a-vibey-new-all-day-restaurant-and-bar-from-three-san-jose-hospitality-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314161\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora: Santana Row Gets a Vibey New All-Day Restaurant and Bar From Three San Jose Hospitality Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose\u2019s popular Santana Row adds a new all-day restaurant and bar serving California cuisine to its ranks this summer. The outdoor shopping center addition, Flora<\/a>, replaces the long-running Rosie McCann\u2019s Irish Pub & Restaurant, which closed in 2024 after nearly 20 years in business.<\/p>\n

South Bay restaurant vets Danny Shafazand (NOVA Nightclub<\/a>, Second Story<\/a>), Russ Fukushima (Water Tower Kitchen<\/a>), and Jameson Parvisad (Second Story<\/a>, Water Tower Kitchen<\/a>) bring a wealth of hospitality experience to the restaurant, though it\u2019s their first project together. Shafazand shares that the group looked for the right opportunity to collaborate, and when the Rosie McCann\u2019s space opened up, it seemed like a fit. Shafazand and Parvisad were former employees, and its location on the busy shopping street made it appealing.<\/p>\n

The team envisions a menu that moves seamlessly from brunch to dinner to late-night drinks \u2014 with a 2 a.m. call time on the weekends. Shafazand says they\u2019re still in the process of finding a head chef, but the vision is to serve food rooted in California cuisine, chasing seasonal, high-quality ingredients. \u201cWe\u2019re looking to get pretty creative with the menu here,\u201d Shafazand says. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be a huge menu, but it\u2019ll be pretty substantial [with] different things that are not your standard breakfast, standard brunch, lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drinks are another important element to the equation. The menu will incorporate modern takes on classic cocktails, as well as thoughtful nonalcoholic options. The space won\u2019t be a white tablecloth affair, Shafazand assures, but the team is looking for an \u201celevated\u201d feel, which will most noticeably come in the design. They\u2019re working with San Diego-based firm Basile Studio<\/a> to reimagine Rosie McCann\u2019s as a modern, indoor-outdoor restaurant.<\/p>\n

Basile is a well-known entity among San Diego restaurateurs and bar owners, having designed spaces like Raised by Wolves<\/a> and Kindred<\/a>. But they\u2019ve been slowly breaking into the Bay Area, most recently with the design of Eos & Nyx<\/a> and the Pressroom<\/a> in downtown San Jose, and now Flora. As former San Diegans, Shafazand and Fukushima were aware of the design firm\u2019s It Girl status, and Basile was the first and only company the trio decided to work with. \u201cThe work they do is crazy,\u201d Shafazand says. \u201cThe common denominator with all their work is extreme amounts of detail and color, and the vibe. When you walk into one of their venues, you clearly know this is a Basile Studios venue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shafazand says a newly built wraparound bar will straddle the inside and outside of the restaurant, and there are floral and plant details throughout. The lighting should help create different moods as the day shifts into night in pace with the menu, and the team sees music playing a bigger role, possibly with DJs in the evening. \u201cWe want people to come, have fun, have a good meal, [with] high-quality ingredients, beautiful plateware, nice presentation, and the drinks to match,\u201d Shafazand says. \u201cEverything\u2019s going to be high-quality, that\u2019s a given, but the big thing is just having a place that\u2019s fun, where it\u2019s a gathering \u2014 it\u2019s high energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flora<\/a> (355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose) debuts in late summer 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose\u2019s popular Santana Row adds a new all-day restaurant and bar serving California cuisine to its ranks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1698,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-314161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-coming-attractions","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314161","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=314161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}