{"id":384323,"date":"2026-07-02T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384323\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:55:39","slug":"korean-japanese-fusion-restaurant-koja-kitchen-closes-in-downtown-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384323\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean-Japanese fusion restaurant, Koja Kitchen, closes in downtown Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Koja Kitchen, a Korean-Japanese fusion restaurant along K Street, has closed, according to a social media announcement from the business posted Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Koja Kitchen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/food-drink\/restaurants\/article236739543.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:first opened at 732 K St. in 2019;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;first opened at 732 K St. in 2019&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> first opened at 732 K St. in 2019<\/a> after launching as a food truck in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kojakitchen.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:website;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;website&quot;}\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>. The Northern California chain was known for its Kojas, a sandwich filled with Korean BBQ meat and sauces between garlic-fried-rice buns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThank you for the years of support, incredible memories, and love you\u2019ve shared with us at this location,\u201d the owners wrote on social media. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful for every guest who walked through our doors, every order we served, and every memory made over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Koja Kitchen did not respond to a request for comment from The Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the restaurant\u2019s closure announcement, its owners told its loyal customers to \u201cstay tuned\u201d for news on which business is coming as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhile this chapter is closing, a new one is coming to this space very soon,\u201d the owners wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Koja Kitchen currently has five locations scattered throughout the Bay Area. The nearest location to Sacramento is its Berkeley restaurant on Telegraph Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Koja Kitchen, a Korean-Japanese fusion restaurant along K Street, has closed, according to a social media announcement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[155186,131017,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-384323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-fusion-restaurant","tag-koja-kitchen","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384323","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=384323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}