From our email newsletter: Thank you for your support of our new venture, Garden Kitchen. It has long been a dream of ours to open a restaurant, and we were finally lucky enough to find this location in the Rolando Village neighborhood of San Diego. It is small and unassuming, but located in an easily accessible area on the corner of University Ave near both SDSU and La Mesa. Our vision is to turn it into a quaint neighborhood spot, where we use only the freshest and highest quality ingredients to make delicious, affordable meals. So much has happened since we took over the old restaurant, and we are already approaching our soft opening date! There have been huge changes over the past few weeks, we have transformed what was a takeout only restaurant with no seating into a dine in restaurant that will have a capacity of upwards of 50 people. To get here required a lot of work; ...

[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="150"] Clean Stove![/caption] We've made good progress since the last update and are now projecting our opening date to be about three weeks out. Everything inside has been cleaned top to bottom, the stove, oven, exhaust hood and fans were professionally cleaned to remove all the old grime, we purchased a new refrigerator and prep table, replaced light fixtures, refinished our rustic menu board, updated kitchen layout, fixed our bathroom to be accessible to customers and be ADA compliant... [caption id="attachment_140" align="alignright" width="150"] New shiny refrigerator![/caption] The list goes on. And over the next week we're hoping to get our patio refinished and have a fence put up which will help finalize our vision for our quaint neighborhood restaurant! Now it's time to get down to business and get our ...