On a Tuesday, Westfield Fashion Square locks its doors at 8 p.m. Along the outside wall, Noodle St keeps serving hand-pulled noodles until 9:30 p.m. Kura Revolving Sushi Bar, also on that edge, is open just as late. On Sundays the gap grows. The mall closes at 7 p.m., and the noodle shop stays open two more hours.
This is how Fashion Square works now. The part of the center that faces the parking lot has become its own small district, with its own hours. Some of it opens before the mall does, and most of it closes later. Going into the holidays, that difference decides when you can get dinner, a workout or a Christmas tree at the corner of Riverside and Woodman.
Two schedules at one address
Here are the hours Westfield's directory lists for the businesses on the outer edge, next to the mall's own.
| Weekdays | Friday and Saturday | Sunday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield Fashion Square, mall hours | 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
| Noodle St | 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. | 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. | 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Kura Revolving Sushi Bar | 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Monday to Thursday | 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. | 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
| Panini Kabob Grill | 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. |
| BoxUnion | 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
Panini Kabob Grill opens at 10 a.m. on Sundays, an hour before the mall, and closes two hours after it. On weekday nights, every restaurant in the table serves at least an hour past the mall's 8 p.m. close. BoxUnion is the one perimeter business whose listed hours match the mall's exactly.
Orangetheory Fitness's mall listing shows a weekday schedule from 5:15 a.m. to 8:45 p.m., and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends. A 5:15 a.m. start is close to five hours before the mall's doors open.
How the outside wall filled in
The change took about a year. In December 2025, What Now Los Angeles reported that Noodle St would open at 14006 Riverside Drive, Site #26, in a space between Panini Kabob Grill and BoxUnion. No opening date had been announced at the time. The same report said the chain began in 2017 and already had locations in Fullerton, Monrovia, Arcadia, Pasadena, Irvine, Eastvale, Chino and near UCLA.
By June 2026, BoxUnion had opened. In his monthly column for the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, SOHA President Matt Epstein described it as a new addition and said Noodle St looked to be "inching closer to opening its doors." Today, Noodle St's own site lists the Fashion Square location as open.
Epstein's October 2026 column drew the conclusion. He pointed out that the mall started as an open-air center, was later enclosed, and is now drawing its energy from the outside again.
"Along the exterior perimeter facing the parking, restaurants and fitness businesses have created a surprisingly lively scene. On many days, these businesses appear to be every bit as active as anything happening inside the mall."
In the same column, Epstein wrote that he has sometimes seen people waiting to get into Kura, and that Noodle St is often crowded.
Why these tenants suit the outside
The businesses on the edge have one thing in common. Each sells something you have to be there for. Kura's conveyor belt brings plates to your table, which in Epstein's words makes dinner "as much an experience as a meal." Noodle St pulls its noodles by hand. What Now Los Angeles described the chain's noodles as round, flat, triangular and knife-cut, each with its own texture. BoxUnion runs 45-minute boxing classes that mix cardio, strength work and heavy-bag rounds set to music, and it asks for no prior boxing experience.
Epstein sees the same idea behind the mall's future. In October he wrote that the mall of the future "may be about restaurants, fitness, entertainment, recreation, and experiences," which he described as things "you can't simply order from Amazon and have delivered to your front door." A storefront you can walk into straight from your car, open after the inside corridors go dark, fits that kind of business well.
Inside, the newest names are drinks and snacks
Inside, the mall's food directory lists CHAGEE Modern Teahouse, Chocoberry, Mimi Garden and O'Gusto among its open restaurants. HEYTEA and Charleys are both listed as coming soon. Macy's and Bloomingdale's are still listed as open on the center's homepage, so both department-store anchors remain.
Inside, the new arrivals are mostly quick stops like tea, sweets and casual counters. Outside, they are sit-down dinners and scheduled classes. All of them keep the mall's hours unless the directory says otherwise, and the only places on the property with clearly longer hours are on the outside edge.
The holiday calendar mostly follows the mall's clock
Fashion Square's two big seasonal draws begin within two weeks of each other.
- Friday, November 13: Photos With Santa begins, the day after this post goes up. Santa's first-weekend hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, an hour before the mall closes on those nights, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, the same as the mall. Westfield encourages booking through its Santa reservation page. Walk-ins are welcome if space allows, and photo packages are sold separately. The schedule also includes Sensory Santa and Pet Nights.
- Friday, November 27: Tina's Trees opens the day after Thanksgiving with freshly harvested Christmas trees. Its first-weekend hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.
- Thursday, December 24: Santa's last day.
- Friday, December 25: Tina's Trees' listed end date.
Tina's Trees is the one seasonal event that keeps the perimeter's kind of hours. Its 9 a.m. start that Friday is an hour before the mall opens, and on Sunday, November 29, it stays open two hours after the mall closes at 7 p.m. That means you can pick up a tree after dinner at Kura or Noodle St on a Sunday in late November, well after the corridors inside have closed.
Santa's posted first-weekend hours end at or before the mall's closing time each day. The tree lot and the restaurants along the outside wall stay open later.
The Fashion Square that Epstein remembers was an open-air center. The one taking shape now has a busy outer ring around an indoor mall that closes earlier. For homeowners near Riverside Drive, a center that stays active into the evening is part of what living nearby is like day to day, and it's worth knowing when you think about the street you live on. If you'd like to talk about how changes like this at Fashion Square figure into your own plans for selling or buying in Sherman Oaks, Angela Waters is glad to look at the details with you. Schedule a Free Consultation.
