Legend has it the first cup of coffee was brewed in Yemen. That tidbit is just a taste of the culture that the owners of a new coffee shop, Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co., want to share with Fresno. Along with their actual coffee, of course.

Paris Baguette is a French-inspired bakery café with South Korean roots. According to its website, Paris Baguette opened its first café in the United States in 2005 in Los Angeles. The rapidly growing company now has more than 180 locations in markets across the country.

A new Raising Cane's restaurant opens Tuesday in northwest Fresno. The Weber and Herndon location is now the chain's second restaurant in the Fresno area. There is also a location in Clovis. Doors open at 9 am. As part of a grand opening celebration, there will be a drawing to award 20 customers free Cane's chicken for a year.

Popular fried-chicken restaurant Raising Cane’s will open its second Fresno location on Tuesday. This brings the popular restaurant chain closer to residents near the fast-growing El Paseo shopping center near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99. Tuesday’s grand opening begins at 9 a.m. and will feature a “Lucky 20” drawing to award 20 customers free Cane’s for a year. The first 100 customers to purchase a combo meal will also receive a commemorative hat and free box combo card, good for a free box combo on a return visit.

California's newest Costco will be one of the biggest in the world. After lots of legal back-and-forth, a location in northwest Fresno will be replaced by a "massive 219,000-square-foot warehouse".

Costco Wholesale has won a green light from the Fresno City Council to relocate to a new, larger location on West Herndon Avenue. The council unanimously approved a cluster of zoning, planning and environmental actions that will allow Costco to develop a 22.4-acre site.

Ten years ago this week, Fresno’s fastest-growing shopping center got off to a “modest” 300,000 square-foot start with a new Target, Ross, Petco, Burlington, Marshall’s and more. Rich Development, Gryphon Capital and N3 Real Estate partnered on the $74 million Marketplace at El Paseo development at Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue.

The list of options for shopping and dining is expanding in Northwest Fresno. Crews were seen turning dirt on a new space for businesses in the Marketplace at El Paseo on Wednesday.

Same spot. Different burgers. National chain Wayback Burgers has closed its only location in Fresno, but a local, family-owned burger spot has already reopened in the same spot. The restaurant is in the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center near Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue, in one of the outbuildings facing Riverside Drive.

California State Senator Shannon Grove Congratulates Gryphon Capital and The Marketplace at El Paseo for being a finalist for the "Best Shopping Center" Award.

By next summer, 11 new stores are scheduled to open up shop at the Marketplace at El Paseo Shopping Center in northwest Fresno. Lewis Smith, Senior Vice President at Retail California, says people should look forward to never before seen businesses coming to Fresno.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A new Angry Chickz will soon raise the heat level in northwest Fresno. The franchise known for its Nashville Hot Chicken will open its newest location at El Paseo Marketplace. The restaurant is just one of several new businesses planning to come to the shopping center.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Some new businesses are coming to northwest Fresno's El Paseo Marketplace. Hayashi Ramen is opening its first Fresno location in July. The plan is to hire about 30 people for the new restaurant. There's already one in Clovis featuring custom ramen dishes.

Fresno, CA (KFSN)-Costco is preparing for a major change in northwestern Fresno. The company hopes to relocate its show and Golden State locations to Herndon and Highway 99, opposite the El Paseo marketplace. The city of Fresno is planning a virtual meeting on November 2nd to begin an environmental review of the project and has questions about its impact on traffic in the area.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Costco is gearing up for a big change in northwest Fresno. The company is hoping to move its Shaw and Golden State location over to Herndon and Highway 99 across the street from the Marketplace at El Paseo.

Crumbl Cookies is coming to Fresno. The national franchise is planning to open a location in the Villaggio shopping center at Blackstone and Nees avenues. That’s the center with Barnes & Noble — and the Crumbl bakery will be next to Coldstone Creamery.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Floor & Decor (NYSE: FND), a leading specialty retailer of hard-surface flooring, will continue its growth when it opens its newest location in Fresno, California on May 19, 2021. The 80,000 square-foot Floor & Decor warehouse store and design center will open with a team of about 45 full-time and part-time associates led by Felix Sefa, the new store’s Chief Executive Merchant.

Fresno’s oldest Costco Wholesale location is likely on-the-move, sources with knowledge told The Sun, with some new amenities slated for its future location. The Costco, currently located on Shaw Avenue just east of Golden State Boulevard, is set to move to prime real estate on Herndon Avenue.

Fresno’s oldest Costco Wholesale location is likely on-the-move, sources with knowledge told The Sun, with some new amenities slated for its future location. The Costco, currently located on Shaw Avenue just east of Golden State Boulevard, is set to move to prime real estate on Herndon Avenue.

Get ready for a sweet addition to the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center in northwest Fresno. Nothing Bundt Cakes is opening another storefront at Herndon Avenue and Riverside Drive on Friday. The new location will be their second bakery in the city and will create 20 new jobs. The cake shop already has a store in Clovis on Willow and Herndon Avenues, and another location in Visalia.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It is a sign of the tough retail times. Stores like Sur La Table at the River Park Shopping Center in North Fresno are closing and unable to make it in this tough economy and changing retail landscape. "You're seeing chains like Tuesday Morning, JCPenney that are filing bankruptcy.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hobby Lobby is now open in northwest Fresno. The Marketplace at El Paseo location at Herndon and 99 is now the fourth store in the Fresno-Clovis area for the popular craft and home decor chain. Just a couple of weeks ago, Hobby Lobby opened its first store in Clovis--at Shaw near Sunnyside.

The shopping center that began as fig orchards in 2006 has neared completion of its current stage of development. The opening of Hobby Lobby, Carter’s and Regal Cinemas marks the end of the second phase for Marketplace at El Paseo near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99.

One franchisee is bringing the food of two different worlds to one shopping center in northwest Fresno. As the up-and-coming Marketplace at El Paseo continues to grow, franchisee Mosa Gazali of Fresno and his partner are bringing Daphne’s Restaurant — a Greek, California fusion restaurant — and Wayback Burger to the developing shopping center at Herndon Avenue and Highway 99.

Fresno’s new Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center will be the first to add a “neighborhood bar concept” to its expanding repertoire of retailers before the model expands to the rest of the Central Valley. The Florida-based Brass Tap franchise will open at the northwest Fresno shopping center, probably around the summertime, according to Lewis Smith of real estate brokerage Retail California.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A longtime vision of a bustling shopping center along Herndon and Highway 99 is coming together at the Marketplace at El Paseo. "Phase two involves a number of exciting new tenants namely Hobby Lobby, a brand new Regal, a state of the art theater. 5 Below, Carter's Children's Clothes," said Lewis Smith, the senior vice president of Retail California. He says most shops like Hobby Lobby will open in spring or summer of 2020.

The final funding piece for a key roadway project in northwest Fresno, planned for decades, finally came through. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded the Veterans Boulevard Project a $10.5 BUILD Grant on Wednesday for a project with an estimated total cost of $139 million. With the first segment completed and bidding underway on the all-important second segment — grade separations for the Union Pacific railroad tracks and the high-speed rail corridor — city officials expect the complete 2.5- mile project to be open for traffic in 2023.

At a cost of more than $24.4 million, you might expect that in the Valley’s most expensive real estate transaction of 2018, you’d get to keep the building. Not that there’s any building up yet on the 20-acre parcel slated to become Phase 2 of the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center south of West Herndon Avenue and North Riverside Drive. Currently there’s Phase 1 of the shopping center, which includes Target, Old Navy, Tillys and Burlington stores.

A new hamburger chain has been finalized for phase two of the El Paseo Marketplace development in northwest Fresno. Wayback Burgers, an international restaurant with locations from Chowchilla to Brunei, is projected to arrive in Fresno by late 2019 or early 2020, according to Chris Shane, managing partner and founder of Gryphon Capital. Gryphon Capital is the development agency working on El Paseo Marketplace.

A second Fresno Hobby Lobby and another Regal Cinema are part of phase-two plans for the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99. Children’s apparel store Carter’s and regional Mexican eatery Que Pasa! are also coming soon to this fast-growing part of Fresno. The Fresno Bee reported that construction on the lot south of Burlington Coat Factory will begin in July with a slated fall 2019 opening. “With the success of phase one and through our marketing efforts, we’re finding great success in leasing,” said Lewis Smith, senior vice president at Retail California, which is marketing the property.

Fresno is getting another Hobby Lobby, along with a movie theater and a slew of other stores and restaurants. The newcomers will open at Marketplace at El Paseo, the shopping center with Target at Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue. Construction on the second phase of the center will start this summer just south of the existing center. A few rumors about Hobby Lobby, a craft and home decor store, opening a second location have circulated, but the store has signed a lease with the center, confirmed Chris Shane, a developer and managing partner of Gryphon Capital that’s behind the center. If all goes as planned, the businesses will open in fall 2019.

Fresno’s newly built Olive Garden is almost ready. For years, the area’s sole Olive Garden restaurant on Shaw Avenue in Clovis has attracted crowds willing to wait for their pasta, bread sticks and salad. The newest Olive Garden opens Monday at the Marketplace at El Paseo, the shopping center near Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue in Fresno. The restaurant will open after a 10 a.m. ribbon cutting with the Fresno Chamber of Commerce. This is the same center that will eventually have a Cracker Barrel Old Country store and restaurant. That down-home restaurant serves comfort food like hash brown casserole and has a country-style store with rocking chairs out front.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Olive Garden is still looking to hire close to 100 people at its newest location in northwest Fresno on Golden State and Herndon. The restaurant is gearing up to open later this month and hosted a hiring event Saturday where walk-in interviews were held. Applications were accepted between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and because of the turnout, the restaurant plans to extend the event into Sunday. Olive Garden is looking to hire for all its positions - everything from bussers to waiters. The new location is expected to open June 26th.

There’s even more evidence now that a hotly anticipated Cracker Barrel restaurant will indeed be opening in Fresno. Local media for the last several months now have been speculating that the country-themed restaurant and gift shop would be opening in the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99 in northwest Fresno. Earlier this month ABC 30 made that announcement, but did not name the source of that information. The Fresno Bee has been checking up on the rumors for months, since the shopping center’s website, marketplaceatelpaseo.com, listed Panera Bread and Cracker Barrel as retailers that are “Coming Soon” to a new phase of the center, which currently has a Target anchor and several other stores.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California will soon get a taste of Cracker Barrel's fancy fixins' and it will soon be right here in Fresno. The country-themed restaurant and gift shop will soon be moving into the El Paseo Shopping Center in Northwest Fresno-- right next to the Target store. The Fresno spot will be part of Cracker Barrel's expansion into California. Currently there are no open locations in the state for the nationwide chain. A new Panera Bread will also be built right next door.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- popular taco chain is expanding to the Central Valley. Signs are now up for Chronic Tacos at the El Paseo Shopping Center in Northwest Fresno, which is scheduled to open in July. They are also opening a location in Clovis at Herndon and Willow which will open next month. Owners tell us the opening of both locations will create about 60 jobs. They are still looking to fill dozens of positions including cooks, assistant managers, servers and greeters.

Cracker Barrel is coming to Fresno after all. A local retail broker, Commercial Retail Associates, has reported to The Bee’s leases section that Cracker Barrel has signed a lease. It’s going into a 9,170-square-foot space at the southwest corner of Herndon Avenue and Riverside Drive, part of the Marketplace at El Paseo near Highway 99. Retail brokers help businesses find places to rent and property owners find renters. The agents working on this deal were Sam Bogdanovich and Nathan Negri. Bogdanovich would not comment; Negri could not be reached.

Social media is abuzz with the possibility that the popular Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and its restaurant may open a location in Fresno. Will it? Maybe. Maybe not – and there’s several reasons not to get too excited yet. First, know that the down-home, country-style store and restaurant serving classic American dishes like meatloaf and “chicken n’ dumplins” has locations in more than 40 states. None are in California, though plenty of locals make a point of hitting up Cracker Barrel when they’re traveling.

Clovis will get its first Rubio’s Coastal Grill Thursday. There are giveaways – including $50 gift cards and Rubio’s merchandise – for the first 50 customers after the 10 a.m. opening. The restaurant is at 950 Herndon Ave., at Clovis Avenue. Rubio’s is in the Trading Post Shopping Center, taking over the space Hunan Chinese Restaurant left behind when it closed. (Hunan fans, before you freak out, note that the original Hunan at Cedar and Herndon avenues in Fresno is still open.) The shopping center has a new owner and underwent an overhaul in recent months. It has a new look and new businesses, including Sprouts, Ross, Tuesday Morning, Skechers and Pieology.

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is there is construction popping up all over town that’s going to hold a slew of new restaurants – some pretty interesting ones, too. The bad news is two of the area’s well-loved restaurants have closed. Let’s start with the closures so I can cheer you up after with news of growing local restaurants and funky newcomers.

How does a taco stuffed with mashed potatoes and cheese and deep fried sound? That’s one item on the menu of Chronic Tacos, which is headed to Fresno and Clovis. And if burger is more your taste, both cities are also getting more Five Guys burgers and fries restaurants. Chronic Tacos, with its deep fried taco, is a southern California quick-service Mexican chain with a twist. It is opening in the former Thai Fusion restaurant space, which closed last year, at Herndon and Willow avenues.

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors will unveil a “Supercharger” station at the Marketplace at El Paseo in northwest Fresno early next month. The location will feature 10 Supercharger connectors, which allow Tesla vehicles to charge in minutes rather than hours. The shopping center is the first Supercharger location in the Fresno area. “We are thrilled to offer this new service for our customers and community,” said Chris Shane, managing partner with Gryphon Capital, one of the developers for the Marketplace. “Our property compliments the Tesla Supercharger stations. Not only is our location ideally situated for those traveling through the San Joaquin Valley, but our shops and restaurants provide a variety of amenities for customers.”

Tesla is getting ready to debut a Supercharger station in northwest Fresno with 10 stalls to charge its electric cars. The chargers, which will be up and running in the next few weeks, are at The Marketplace at El Paseo, the new shopping center at Highway 99 and Herndon avenue. The red-and-white stations with the distinctive Tesla logo are next to Jersey Mike’s Subs and Pieology in the northeast corner of the parking lot. The stations open up a new avenue of long-distance travel for owners of the electric cars who usually plug them in overnight at home. At the new station, Tesla owners can plug in for 30 minutes and charge enough to travel 170 miles. The Model S Tesla with a range of more than 270 miles can get fully recharged in under an hour.