A new cafe wine bar is coming to Mission Hills, offering adults with developmental disabilities a chance to contribute to the local community.<\/p>\n
Serafino will be located on Washington and Albatross streets in the corridor connecting Mission Hills and Hillcrest. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the main storefront,\u201d Amanda Sarich said as she showed NBC 7 the exterior of the future all-day cafe wine bar. “This is probably going to be a big part of where the coffee section and the wine bar is going to be.”<\/p>\n
Sarich, a San Diego native, is one of the four founding members.<\/p>\n
The project is a collaboration between co-founders and life partners David and Rebecca Cross and long-time friends Michael and Amanda Sarich.<\/p>\n
From coffee in the morning to grab-and-go bites during the day and wine in the evening, Sarich said the all-day cafe will offer a variety of options.<\/p>\n
Harvey Kampton, who lives in the neighborhood, said the corner has been vacant for about four years and he\u2019s eagerly awaiting Serafino\u2019s grand opening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about that,” Kampton said. “We\u2019re both foodies and we like coffee, and it seems like it\u2019s a little bit higher end which is nice.”<\/p>\n
The concept will bridge the founding members\u2019 background in hospitality and special education to offer an inclusive experience to customers and staff.<\/p>\n
In addition to introducing a new and unique culinary experience to the neighborhood, they aim to give people with special needs an opportunity in the workplace.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that they\u2019ve really found with clients that come in is that if you give them a chance and you give people the opportunity to really focus in on something and have a task, they actually do very well at it and so it actually becomes wonderful,\u201d Sarich said.<\/p>\n
Kampton appreciates the consideration of hiring employees with special needs because, he said, they\u2019re an asset to the team and the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have also hired learning-disability afflicted people in my law practice, and they can be amazing when they\u2019re taught something that\u2019s repetitious,” Kampton said. “It\u2019s really a nice thing.” \u00a0<\/p>\n
The coffeeshop, restaurant and bar will also have a designated space for private dining or special events.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor either private dining, holding classes, groups, wine tastings, olive oil tastings, you know, coffee cuppings, as well as a larger retail section,\u201d Sarich said.<\/p>\n
Sarich said they also have fun collaborations in the pipeline with local roasters and food vendors.<\/p>\n
As of right now, Sarich said Serafino is looking to open sometime in the late fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new cafe wine bar is coming to Mission Hills, offering adults with developmental disabilities a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[14768,13244,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-285089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-hillcrest","9":"tag-mission-hills","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-county","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285089","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=285089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}