Just a quick post for a very pleasant Wednesday.
Make Cafe on the Move?
So, I was doing a post on the last of the trio of places where we had Shakshuka with JJ. It was a shop we saw walking back to our car after having breakfast with JJ at Flora named Make Cafe. We walked over and took a look at the menu, which was quite interesting. When I got back home, I did a quick online search and found out that MAKE stands for "Merging Agriculture, Kitchens and Employment" and MAKE Projects " is a hyperlocal farm, cafe, and social enterprise that empowers refugee and immigrant women through food, agriculture, and community." The Cafe provides refugee women with job training and experience. You can read a wonderful article from San Diego Magazine here that also highlight's the programs founder Anchi Mei.
Anyway, we paid a visit to the cafe which was only open 4 days a week for brunch.
Loved the diversity of the menu and the food was quite good. The service was warm and friendly.
Anyway, as I was prepping this post early last week, I noticed that the Google had them listed as Temporarily Closed. So, I did some checking and yes, it seems that MAKE is on the move; from the location at 2920 University to Felton Street according to their website.
Here's what we had.
According to their website; they hope to reopen in late 2025. I'm all for places like this…and yes, I've gone ahead and donated a bit.
Hope they are able to reopen by their projected date.
Na Tart Coming to Clairemont:
**** You can find a post on Na Tart here.
Did some quick shopping at the Aldi on Balboa, when I noticed this coming soon sign in the storefront next to Pho Hut & Grill.
So, again I took to Google and it seems that this Egg Tart specialist based in Flushing, NYC is opening this shop in San Diego! I believe they are supposed to open in July!
I'm thinking this parking lot just got a bit tighter!
5252 Balboa Ave
San Diego, CA 92117
I hope everyone is having a great week!
Excited about that egg tart place
I hope it meets your expectation ST!
Looks NA Tart will open in late June according to @natartca on Instagram.
And a couple more openings:
Itacho Sushi – June 10 (@itachosushi.sd)
Second location of Phuong Nga next to World Foods seems have an Open Now sign.
I think the Missus is going to want to check out Na Tart when they open Elle!
I had heard that Phuong Nga’s second location had opened…I need to go check out out.
Thanks as always for the heads-up!