Home Eat Opens in Union City

Home Eat opened a new Union City restaurant on April 21 at 33348 Alvarado-Niles Road, replacing the longtime Rose Garden space. (mercurynews.com) The Union City location is Home Eat’s latest Bay Area outpost, and the company lists it as open daily from 11:15 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. at the Central Plaza address. (homeeat.com) Home Eat’s own site says the brand was established in 2015 and grew from Taiwanese-style small hot pots into a full-service restaurant serving Sichuan, Hunan, Taiwanese and house fusion dishes. (homeeat.com) That mix helps explain the menu size now landing in Union City. Delivery and online ordering pages list categories ranging from dumplings, chow fun and fried rice to hot pot, barbecue fish fillet, milk tea and the restaurant’s special fried chicken wings. (ubereats.com) The address carries its own local history. The Mercury News reported that Rose Garden closed at the end of August 2025 after 48 years, when the Wong family retired and thanked customers for decades of support. (mercurynews.com) That turnover changes one of Union City’s older Chinese restaurant sites into a newer regional-chain location. What Now San Francisco reported on April 7 that Home Eat was preparing to move into the former Rose Garden restaurant in Central Plaza. (whatnow.com) Reservation and ordering platforms show the new restaurant is already set up for both dine-in and pickup, with Toast listing table bookings and a full online menu from the Alvarado-Niles Road location. (toasttab.com 1) (toasttab.com 2) For Union City diners, the immediate change is simple: a familiar address that once served banquet-style Chinese food now has a seven-day-a-week Home Eat with a much broader cross-regional menu. (mercurynews.com) (homeeat.com)