There\u2019s more change on the horizon for Ikea\u2019s struggling Mid-Market food hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saluhall, which recently parted ways with its\u00a0operator<\/a>, will lose one of its original vendors, vegan Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Borinque\u00f1a,\u00a0and gain Filipino fusion tenant Izzy and Wooks (opens in new tab)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Casa Borinque\u00f1a\u2019s last day will be Jan. 1, according to owner Lourdes Nau. A Saluhall spokesperson said the opening date for Izzy and Wooks, which will fill one of two empty kiosks on the second floor, is still being determined.\u00a0<\/p>\n The news comes as Saluhall transitions from working with a third-party management company, U.K.-based Kerb Food, to Ikea parent Ingka, in an effort to streamline operations and cut costs. Since opening in April 2024, the multi-level dining complex has failed to maintain consistent foot traffic. While it debuted with primarily vegan offerings, a mix of vendor turnover and changing priorities<\/a> brought in a wider range of options, including the popular burger pop-up Smish Smash.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nau said she was unable to negotiate an acceptable lease with Ingka.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very sad that Kerb left,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was already hard surviving on Market Street, trying to get customers in the door, and [Ingka] wanted to raise the rent.\u201d<\/p>\n She said Ingka proposed increases to both her base rent and the percentage of revenue she\u2019d share with the food hall. \u201cWe were barely making do, and they\u2019re not working with us,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not happy with the outcome.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s more change on the horizon for Ikea\u2019s struggling Mid-Market food hall.\u00a0 Saluhall, which recently parted ways with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[818,27230,21401,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-68729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-downtown","9":"tag-ikea","10":"tag-mid-market","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68729","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=68729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}