Bingo Burger at 132 N. Tejon St. downtown remains temporarily closed with no estimated opening date more than a year after an early morning fire broke out inside the restaurant. The October 2024 blaze caused a total loss for Bingo Burger.

Some exterior windows remained boarded up and notices were pasted on other windows on the afternoon of Dec. 15. No visible work was being done at the site.

Remediation has been done, owner Richard Warner said this month, but the process to restore the restaurant has been a slow process.

Insurance companies are currently “working out the build-out portion” of the restoration, Warner said by email, or the process of transforming the restaurant into a functional space. He estimates this process could take another four to six months to complete.

Investigators determined the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion, Warner previously said. Bingo Burger, its neighbor Solar Roast Coffee, and others who shared space in the Saks building downtown sustained smoke and fire damage.

The Solar Roast coffeehouse reopened in early April at 134 N. Tejon St. after a six-month-long closure following the fire.

The cleaned-up, renovated space includes updated equipment and new flooring. Since reopening, Solar Roast now offers thousands of records and hundreds of new and used books for purchase, features owner Mike Hartkop said he’d wanted to introduce at the coffeehouse even before the fire forced its extended closure.