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Hi my name is John Vallas I'm the owner of Cafe Mono in Mission Beach. Here you will find
locally roasted, sustainable sourced craft coffee and
fresh from scratch eats. In one of americas most beautiful beach's Mission Beach California.
I was out here in San Diego in the navy, met my wife and transferred out to Tennessee
I went back on active duty and did a poject with Navy Recruiting headquarters
out there
the we transferred back out to San Diego
my wife went to a ship
and I had no Idea what I was going to do next literally no idea.
and in my job search
i came across a piece of paper that I had written down everything that I was passionate about.
and on that list was all kind of stuff. Running spending time with my family
surfing, good food,
good coffee, good beer and I actually just looked at this list. And said to myself
forget about the money for a second
what if I just focused
on this doing something that I love and the money will follow.
literally what happened and what got manifested
was
a coffee shop and
cafe right next to the ocean.
that's how this all got started. From that point I have just continued to
connect with the local population here
and tourist alike
when people come to cafe mono and they try the coffee for the first time um
there's this distinct different between the coffee and the food that we serve
compared to
most of the other locations here in Mission Beach vacation rentals.
not to say that there are great places here
but we focus a lot of time and energy on training
how to properly serve the coffee and keeping the equipment clean so that way um
everything that comes out is fresh. Our coffee is locally roasted
and we either get it the day of or the day after the coffee is roasted and then from there
we ground the beans to order
and when you have and when you taste that coffee
it's just a world of difference from any normal coffee shop you will see anywhere else.
we have a patio people can sit outside and soak up the rays and then have great food and great coffee.
everything that we make is fresh from scratch.
salad dressings, the salsa
the soups are from scratch
and everything is made to order.
and the coffee one of the things
that I really wanted to focus on was having local roasted
sustainably sourced craft coffee and do it better than anyone else. So that is what we have established here. What's really cool about Mission Beach is
we are in such a unique you know geographical location we have the bay on one side of us
and then a block away you have the ocean. So you have got paddle boarding
kayaking
rowing, sailing, boating
wakeboarding
on one side
and then you can literally walk across the street and go surf in the ocean.
and that is what is so cool about this place
just being able just be able to be at the cafe and sneak away and catch a surf when the waves are up. and uh always have
the sun here
that for me is what really makes this place one of the most unique beaches in the country.