This is a quick roundup of current adjustments to Castro space companies. On this version: a sizzling rooster and ramen restaurant adjustments ideas to a sushi restaurant and a customized couch retailer and medical spa open within the Castro.
Nash Scorching Rooster (3970 seventeenth St.)
After simply 5 months, Castro’s Nash Hot Chicken & Ramen (3970 seventeenth St.) has shuttered, and the homeowners are pivoting to show it right into a sushi restaurant.
Proprietor Arron Lai tells Hoodline the area will reopen as a sushi restaurant on September 1.
After working Nash Scorching Rooster & Ramen for 5 months Lai tells Hoodline that he decided clients wished a more healthy meals choice.
Nash Scorching Rooster & Ramen is now closed, a brand new sushi restaurant is on the best way. | Picture: Nash Scorching Rooster & Ramen/Instagram
Lai tells Hoodline that they’re nonetheless deciding on the title of the brand new restaurant, and provides that the menu will embody omakase sushi rolls.
Nash Scorching Rooster and Ramen opened in February of this 12 months within the area formerly occupied by Thai restaurant Me & Tasty.
Because the restaurant was added in 2009 when upstairs nightclub The Cafe expanded, the area has seen a good quantity of turnover. Authentic occupant Pica Pica Maize Kitchen opened in 2013 and lasted just nine months. Alternative Manos Nouveau closed in 2016 after less than two years; it was succeeded by Thai restaurant Me & Tasty, which opened in 2017 and closed lower than 5 years later.
Customized Couch Co. (2195-2199 Market St.)
Oakland-based Custom Sofa Co. shall be opening within the retail areas previously occupied by barbershop Male Picture (2195 Market) and Verizon Approved Retailer (2199 Market), on the nook of Market and Sanchez.
On a current go to by a Hoodline reporter, the 2 retail areas had been mixed into one, and transform work was underway.
Customized Couch Co. is opening at 2195-2199 Market St. | Picture: Steven Bracco/Hoodline
Hoodline readers will recall that Male Picture shuttered in 2020 after 40 years in enterprise. The store briefly reopened under new management as Castro Barbers, however rapidly closed.
Verizon shuttered its storefront in 2020 after seven years within the Castro.
Customized Couch Co. at the moment has a showroom close to Lake Merritt. The family-owned enterprise was based by twin brothers Diego and Damian.
Hoodline reached out to Customized Couch Co. for remark however didn’t obtain a response. A gap date has not been introduced.
Rework work is at the moment underway at Customized Couch Co. | Picture: Steven Bracco/Hoodline
Elena Med Spa (4035 18th St.)
Elena Med Spa is ready to take over the area previously occupied by Unionmade Ladies’s retailer at 4035 18th St. (between Noe and Hartford streets).
Unionmade closed each its ladies’s and males’s shops in 2019.
Elena Med Spa shall be opening within the former Unionmade Ladies’s retailer. | Picture: Steven Bracco/Hoodline
On a current go to by a Hoodline reporter, building employees had been contained in the storefront framing out the brand new enterprise.
Public data point out two permits had been issued for the reworking of the area. Work contains eradicating a non-load bearing wall to adjust to the People with Incapacity Act and relocating the hearth sprinklers. Development prices are estimated at $170,000.
Development work is at the moment underway at Elena Med Spa. | Picture: Steven Bracco/Hoodline
