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With the hopes of creating a cohesive identity, the restaurants on the North end of India Street in Mission Hills have begun branding themselves as International Restaurant Row (IRR). Banners and signage are coming soon for the newly minted restaurant district.
58,000 square foot store hosts Mama’s Kitchen fundraiser By Ashley Mackin | SDUN Editor The Mission Hill Vons, located at 515 W. Washington St., opened Friday, March 30, after nearly nine months of construction. On Wednesday, March 28, Vons hosted a fundraiser for Mama’s Kitchen and donated all the proceeds
As droves of restaurants and cafés across the nation aim to maximize their support of local purveyors, Seekey Cacciatore of Toma Sol Café in Mission Hills gets a top rating for her efforts.
Starting with the coffee and extending into salads, Paninis and knockout soups, she taps into San Diego’s home front with beans from Café Moto, greens from Garden of Eden and breads from Sadie Rose Baking Company.
Developers hoping for the opportunity to propose large-scale building projects in the Hillcrest and Mission Hills neighborhoods have once again had their hopes crushed. During their Jan. 24 meeting, the City Council voted unanimously to extend the Uptown Interim Height Ordinance (IHO).
It’s called ratiocination, and it’s a familiar mental process for anyone who’s ever stared at some mysterious piece of his or her old house and thought, “If I just keep looking at this long enough, it will all make sense.”
It isn’t often that I divert from Uptown’s full tapestry of casual watering holes lighted by neon beer signs in lieu of classier digs illuminated by twinkling chandeliers. But ‘tis the season for a little swank, specifically the Wellington Steak & Martini Lounge adjoining the Red Door Restaurant in Mission Hills
After the 1909 announcement by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce to develop the Panama California Exposition in San Diego in 1915, a virtual land rush exploded as real estate speculators poured money into housing projects. Heir to a large plot of land surrounding the Victorian Villa Orizaba on hills overlooking San Diego Bay and Point Loma to the south, Harry L. Miller recruited a real estate development team to erect the first two of four “model homes” in the “Inspiration Heights” subdivision of what is now Mission Hills in 1911. Miller created a real estate marketing strategy to attract tourist lot buyers in anticipation of the exposition.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, celebrated every October with its signature pink ribbons, is in its 25th year of “Awareness, Education, and Empowerment.”
Awareness starts with facts. One in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society
This July 4 marks the fifth time the Mission Hills Town Council (MHTC) will bring the community together with music, food, entertainment and a parade through Mission Hills.
Long shrouded in mystery, wood refinishing is still subject to conjecture and myth, even in this age of the Internet. Here’s how to tell the seductive lies from the less-appealing truth