{"id":227122,"date":"2026-03-19T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:42:07","slug":"liberty-public-market-a-one-time-navy-chow-hall-now-a-hot-spot-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227122\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Public Market, a one-time Navy chow hall, now a hot spot, turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Liberty<\/a>Liberty Public Market, the popular food hall in Liberty Station, turns 10 this weekend. (Photo by Thomas Melville\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n

POINT LOMA \u2013 It\u2019s been a decade since the former U.S. Navy chow hall in Liberty Station was reimagined, reborn and relaunched as Liberty Public Market<\/a>, transforming it into a food marketplace.<\/p>\n

Now, the market\u2019s 10th anniversary is being commemorated with a weekend-long celebration of its success and longevity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have quite a bit of stuff going on all weekend,\u201d said Vinny Spatafore, Liberty Public Market\u2019s director of front of house operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got live music, we\u2019ve got vendor specials, we have a dog adoption, we have a beer collaboration of our own beer,\u201d he added. \u201cLots of different things going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the one-of-a-kind events are a series of live bands that will perform between 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n

In addition, at least 20 of the market\u2019s 37 food vendors will offer $10 anniversary specials. A wide variety of vendors will have specials, including a coffee shop, a pizza place, a donut vendor, a lobster restaurant, and a taqueria.<\/p>\n

Plus, there\u2019s a unique beer that\u2019s being brewed just for the occasion. The market has partnered with North Park-based Fall Brewing Co. to create the LPM10 IPA, a West Coast IPA with citra, simcoe and Chinook hops.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be available starting Saturday, and from 5-9 p.m., a special tasting with Fall Brewing is scheduled for the market\u2019s main patio area.<\/p>\n

Spatafore, who has been with the market since its beginning, said it started as just a single 25,000 square-foot building, but has continued to grow to the point where it now attracts thousands of visitors daily and hundreds of thousands of people each month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy to see that the market has stayed consistent and that it has continued to carry its momentum and only gotten better,\u201d he said. \u201cIn our busy months, there are days when I\u2019m there and I can\u2019t even move there are so many people. It\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after 10 years, the market\u2019s continuing to expand, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just expanded into the space next door; we acquired that. We also took over a bigger patio, as well,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been just a huge success all around.\u201d<\/p>\n

What he likes about the market is that it gives so many of the small eateries the experience of knowing what it\u2019s like to run their own brick-and-mortar restaurant for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really support our vendors and we\u2019re happy to have these small spaces with talented individuals having great food and providing a good atmosphere for Liberty Market,\u201d he said, not to mention that \u201cso many vendors that have gone on and done great things.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a really good experience,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m excited to continue it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberty Public Market, 2820 Historic Decatur Road, anniversary celebration from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberty Public Market, the popular food hall in Liberty Station, turns 10 this weekend. (Photo by Thomas Melville\/Times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[103358,103359,5469,3365,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-227122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-10th-anniversary","tag-liberty-public-market","tag-liberty-station","tag-point-loma","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}