A new food hall with Michelin cred has arrived on a biotech campus in South San Francisco — and you don’t have to be an employee to visit. At Omakase World Market, on the Gateway of Pacific campus — a sprawling laboratory and office space that’s home to companies including Moderna and AbbVie — you’ll find everything from housemade pasta to sashimi. 

The Omakase Restaurant Group, the team behind popular local chain Dumpling Time and San Francisco’s Michelin-starred Niku Steakhouse, created the food hall in partnership with building owner BioMed Realty to motivate employees to return to the office, but it’s open to the public as well.

“The idea behind it is, how do you make people come back to the office to work, as well as how do you sign leases for the landlord,” said Omakase World Market General Manager Geoffroy Raby. 

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A Margherita pizza from Campo at Omakase World Market in South San Francisco, Calif., June 23, 2026.

A Vegetarian Forestier sandwich from Cuisinett at Omakase World Market in South San Francisco, Calif., June 23, 2026.

The best way? Good food. “Now they have this food hall with better offerings than your old-school corporate cafeteria that was not very exciting for people,” he said.

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Omakase World Market opened June 16, featuring six different concepts in a 50,000-square-foot space with “a theme of traveling around the world,” Raby said. 

Two of these concepts customers may already recognize: Niku Steakhouse sister restaurant the Butcher Shop by Niku has added a second location, serving smash burgers........

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