Denizens of San Clemente will have to wait a touch longer for their anticipated food hall.
Originally slated to open in the fall of this year, Miramar Food Hall, San Clemente’s in-progress food hall that will feature more than a dozen eateries, has pushed back its debut.
The opening timeline has shifted to the first quarter of 2026 due to some unexpected construction delays, according to spokesperson Alex Zalicki Harmon.
Postponements are common when it comes to restaurants and food halls. Most notably, San Juan Capistrano’s River Street Marketplace, beset by bureaucratic- and weather-related delays, opened in December 2024, nearly one year after its original opening timeline. It has, by most accounts, proven to be a success for the South County town.
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Miramar Food Hall will open inside the historic Miramar Theatre at 1720 N. El Camino Real, inside a structure that dates back to 1938, formerly the space of a movie theater and bowling alley.
Inaugural tenants will include eateries with roots in Southern California, like San Diego County’s Cosmos Burger, Ricebunn and Immersion Coffee Co. Thyda Sieng, the founder of Long Beach’s now-shuttered Fire Bird Nashville Hot Chicken, will open her new concept Hen Haus at the food hall. And making its debut outside of Seattle will be Moto Pizza, which specializes in Detroit-style pizza. The food hall will also feature two dedicated bars.
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Developers Tiger Hospitality, the outfit behind San Diego’s Windmill Food Hall, are in charge of Miramar Food Hall. As Laylan Connelly reported in 2021 in the Orange County Register, “Since the early ’90s, it’s been empty, sitting stagnant and falling apart, its insides charred from a fire in 2005.”