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Eater San Diego: Opulent and Ambitious ‘Tickets-Only Bar Opens in East Village A round-up, via Eater San Diego, of this week s top stories in San Diego s food and drink scene By Candice Woo, Edited by Monica Garske •
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San Diego-based hospitality powerhouse CH Projects has just opened an opulent, hidden bar in the East Village that requires a ticket to get in. Eater San Diego shares that scoop, plus other top stories of the week from our food and drink scene, like what’s new for You & Yours Distilling Co., and plans for a new tropical bar and vegan restaurant heading to South Park.
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When the craft beer and burger-focused Neighborhood eatery opened in East Village 14 years ago, it was the first foray into restaurant ownership for the now prolific Arsalun Tafazoli, whose hospitality group boasts such high-profile venues as Born & Raised, Craft & Commerce, and Raised by Wolves.
At the time, Neighborhood was considered fairly cutting edge with its more than two dozen craft beers on tap and not a Heineken in sight and an indoor-outdoor design that included artificial grass around the perimeter and faux moss and ivy on the walls. In recent years, though, the G Street venue no longer felt all that avant-garde as San Diego saw an explosion of craft beer-centric pubs. And so Neighborhood shuttered in March of 2019 a year before the pandemic in anticipation of a six-month-long transformation.
It was Saturday night in Chillicothe, Aug. 24, 1918, and the Queen Theater on the corner of Paint and Water streets was screening “Moonshine,” a two-reel silent comedy starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. At the time, the silent screen idol was second only to Charlie Chaplin in making filmgoers crack up laughing.
The story is set in the Virginia Hills and Fatty Arbuckle plays a revenue agent captain charged with raiding and destroying a cleverly camouflaged, well-guarded moonshine operation. Thankfully, Fatty has a lieutenant sidekick, played by a young Buster Keaton, to help him shutdown down the mountain moonshiners. The hijinks of Arbuckle and Keaton had audiences rolling with laughter.