Opa! restaurant group files for bankruptcy as company shuts its South Bay sites

Paidakia / Lamb Chops served at the Opa! restaurant group. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group archives)

SAN JOSE — Opa! Restaurant Group has filed to liquidate its assets in a move that would trigger a shutdown of all of the chain’s remaining restaurants in the South Bay, according to several bankruptcy court filings.

The Opa! dining company filed for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, seeking a court-supervised liquidation of its assets, documents filed Sept. 19 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court show.

The restaurants that filed for Chapter 7 — Campbell, Morgan Hill and Santa Clara — appear to have shuttered. In addition, Opa Signature Foods also filed to liquidate its assets through a bankruptcy proceeding.

“It is desirable and in the best interests of the company, its creditors, and other parties in interest that a petition be filed by the company seeking relief under the provisions of Chapter 7,” Molly Adams, chief executive officer of Opa Restaurant Group, stated in court papers for the bankruptcy filing.

In early 2025, Opa! closed its Willow Glen restaurant without warning.

The Opa! group’s long run began in 2008 in that San Jose neighborhood, with a smaller restaurant on Lincoln Avenue that regularly drew crowds for its comfort menu of Greek lamb chops, skewers, flatbreads, salads, dips and appetizers.

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