Pica Pica has been the perfect vessel for so many good things. We are grateful for so many things and for all of the people that entered our lives through Pica Pica. After many months of working to run a restaurant during a global pandemic, I have made the incredibly hard decision to close Pica Pica after 14 years in business. It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write this. Posted by Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen on Friday, August 21, 2020 in San Francisco.ĭear Pica Pica family and friends:It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write this. Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen is at 401 Valencia St. She told SFGate this week.Īs businesses leave and office buildings empty, so too will be the entire lunchtime economy in the SOMA, FIDI, Embarcadero as well as many, many others. Then the pandemic struck, and shelter in place changed everything. Delivery had come to make up 25% of the restaurant’s sales last year, with 25% from dine-in customers and 50% from catering, she estimated. In more recent years, office catering had become a larger part of Pica Pica’s business. Owner Adriana López Vermut, confirmed the news this week that Pica Pica has to close.
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They’ve done wonderful things since the pandemic hit too (like many local small businesses have) they converted their kitchen to make thousands of meals for first responders, the elderly and low income families via Comapss. Posted by Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Venezuela’s answer to the Mexican holiday Tamal