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ANIMAL GROUPS & SERVICES

6331 University Avenue, San Diego
Dog Society

The Dog Society is a space for dogs and their humans to relax, socialize and …

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ART GALLERIES

3392 University Avenue, San Diego
Plum Pottery

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4481 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Pop-up Art Gallery
City Heights
4105 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Teralta Art

Non-profit arts studio.

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BARS & CLUBS

5540 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Alcove Wine & Beer
City Heights
4246 University Avenue, San Diego
Black Cat Bar

Opened in 2011 by a former longtime Turf Club bartender, Black Cat is loosely modeled …

City Heights
4977 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
City Pub

The locale formerly hosted the Last Call bar.

City Heights
3519 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Eleven (Permanently Closed)
City Heights
3519 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
The Hideout (Permanently Closed)

The Hideout became The Space Bar on Friday, April 21, 2017.

City Heights
4977 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Last Call (Permanently Closed)

You know that stretch of El Cajon Boulevard between I-15 and the College Area that …

City Heights
3615 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Soda Bar

Opened in 2008 by Adam Cook and Cuong Nguyen, Soda Bar hosts local and touring …

City Heights
4746 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Til-Two Club

Tower Bar owner Mick Rossler picked up this location (formerly the Beauty Bar) in 2010, …

City Heights
4757 University Avenue, San Diego
The Tower Bar

Tower Bar’s namesake tower in City Heights is visible from blocks away, jutting skyward between …

City Heights
3412 University Avenue, San Diego
El Uno Bar

Cash only Deal: Bucket of beer for $14 Hours: morning till late

City Heights
4125 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Vallarta

You’ve probably seen Vallarta’s vintage cobblestone façade along El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights and …

City Heights

CHURCHES & PLACES OF WORSHIP

3777 42nd Street, San Diego
1st Spiritualist Church
City Heights
4474 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Bridge Church
City Heights
4335 Van Dyke Avenue, San Diego
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

“Do you know we go up to the altar today?” asked the friendly woman seated …

City Heights
4474 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Harbor Church Mid City (Permanently Closed)

“A church for Ken-Tal,” read the glossy cardboard flyer that arrived in my mailbox. The …

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4001 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
New Life San Diego

Add Michael and Michele Kole to the list of pastors — The Rock’s Miles McPherson, …

City Heights
4001 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Rock Church City Heights
City Heights
4227 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
City Heights

COFFEESHOPS

3014 Columbine Street, San Diego
Burly and the Bean

You can see this is the neighborhood’s go-to place, maybe because it’s so out of …

City Heights
3675 University Avenue, San Diego
Sunset Wellness Bar

Opened in March 2018, Sunset Wellness Bar is all about kava. It’s not like booze, …

City Heights
3459 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Torque Coffee

Operating in a space that formerly hosted the Rock Palace, a venue once filled with …

City Heights

COMMUNITY CENTERS

4246 Wightman Street, San Diego
Activist San Diego
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4300 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Copley-Price Family YMCA
City Heights
3910 University Ave. Ste. 300-RC, San Diego
Reality Changers
City Heights

EDUCATION

ENTERTAINMENT

4977 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
City Pub

The locale formerly hosted the Last Call bar.

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FARMS & NURSERIES

3110 Euclid Avenue, San Diego
City Farmers Nursery

The nursery sits on an acre and a half tucked away in the center of …

City Heights
4035 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
Fairmount Aqua Farm
City Heights

GOLF COURSES

4085 52nd Street, San Diego
Colina Park Golf and Disc Golf Course

A well-maintained chip-and-putt 18-hole golf course, Colina Park Golf is the headquarters for Pro Kids …

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GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC SERVICES

5348 University Avenue, San Diego
International Rescue Committee

IRC in San Diego has resettled thousands refugees from dozens of countries since its inception …

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

4440 Wightman Street #200, San Diego
City Heights Wellness Center
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LIBRARIES

3795 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
City Heights Weingart Library
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MOVIE THEATERS

Contact venue for physical address, San Diego
Comet Theater
City Heights

PARKS & OUTDOOR SPACES

Myrtle Avenue and 46th Street, San Diego
47th Street Canyon
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4926 Hilltop Drive, San Diego
Gompers Park
City Heights
4108 University Avenue, San Diego
Outdoor Circus Community Center
City Heights
3901 Landis Street, San Diego
Park De La Cruz
City Heights
Orange Avenue and 40th Street, San Diego
Teralta Park
City Heights
4058 University Avenue, San Diego
Tierra Central

Tierra Central is a public space made in community, for community with the belief that …

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RESTAURANTS

4686 University Avenue, San Diego
777 Noodle House

777 Noodle House is run by an ethnically Chinese (Chiu Chow/Teochew) family from Cambodia. Located …

City Heights
4644 El Cajon Boulevard #111, San Diego
Á Châu

Small, cramped and lacking in comfort, the Little Saigon sandwich shop specialized in bahn mi …

City Heights
3645 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Addis

Prices: Sanbusa (with lentils or beef), $1.99; kitfo (beef) sandwich, $6.99; kitfo plate (finely chopped …

City Heights
4348 54th Street, 1, San Diego
African Spice Restaurant

Fascinating Somalian food, just seven dollars -- as much rice, salad, spaghetti, goat meat, beef, …

City Heights
3894 41st St., San Diego
Albertos Taco Shop

Drive-through taco shop with a few tables and benches outside. Inexpensived Mexican food.

City Heights
4155 University Avenue, San Diego
Asmara Eritrean Restaurant

Similar to Ethiopian food, with a long, interesting menu, including a fine three-meat combo platter, …

City Heights
4979 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Awash Ethiopian Restaurant
City Heights
4879 University Avenue, Suite A, San Diego
Bale French Sandwich Shop

The Vietnamese do French baguette sandwiches better than the French — with some spicy Asian …

City Heights
4134 University Avenue, San Diego
Ban Lao Cuisine

Operating in the spot that formerly hosted Que Huong Restaurant.

City Heights
3604 University Avenue, San Diego
Canada Steak Burger

Run by a Greek-American family for 30 years, their hamburgers and especially their steak burgers …

City Heights
4727 University Avenue, San Diego
Chinatown Bar and Grill

This bar from the owner of Aero Club opened in 2018, in a part of …

City Heights
4879 University Avenue, San Diego
Coffee Time Daily

Prices: Bur Saliid (sweet pastry), $1; Bajiya (savory snack made from black-eyed peas), 50 cents; …

City Heights
5420 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Com Tam 75
City Heights
3993 54th St., San Diego
Diamond Palace

Very large Chinese restaurant featuring dim sum, and a full menu of Cantonese and other …

City Heights
4280 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
El Borrego Restaurant

What started nearly two decades ago as a weekends-only lamb barbecue kitchen based out of …

City Heights
3824 University Avenue, San Diego
El Salvador Pupuseria
City Heights
4427 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Etna Restaurant
City Heights
1754 Euclid Avenue, San Diego
Faridas Somalian Cuisine

A casual Somalian restaurant serving up African cuisine and homestyle cooking. Dishes ranging from goat …

City Heights
4869 University Avenue, San Diego
Fatuma Restaurant

One of the nicer Somali restaurants in City Heights' Little Mogadishu. Serves everything from goat …

City Heights
4155 University Ave, San Diego
FireBirds Chicken

Nashville hot chicken inspired restaurant, serving fried chicken with hot sauce spiced to order. Mostly …

City Heights
6109 University Ave, San Diego
Island Spice Jamaican Restaurant (Permanently Closed)

Traditional Jamaican cuisine, smoking pots and all. This is where you come for jerk chicken, …

City Heights
4269 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
Mariscos Alex

Shrimp tacos come either fried ($3) or grilled ($5.25) at this well loved food truck. …

City Heights
3600 Fairmount Ave, San Diego
Mariscos el Titanic

Mexican seafood specials, including ceviche.

City Heights
4616 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Maxim's Seafood Restaurant

A mainstay neighborhood Chinese restaurant with an extensive menu, great for casual dining in or …

City Heights
4644 El Cajon Boulevard #101, San Diego
Minh Ky Restaurant

A small Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant in the Little Saigon district of City Heights. Over 200 menu …

City Heights
3645 University Avenue, San Diego
Las Morelianas Carnitas Estilo Michoacan

Las Morelianas is just into City Heights, but it feels much more removed than that. …

City Heights
3120 Euclid Avenue, San Diego
Nate's Garden Grill

Organic is big here. Lance, one of the founders, says they try to grow as …

City Heights
4591 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego
Nhà Hàng Chay Hoa Từ Bi Tâm

All vegetarian, mostly vegan, and gluten free by request, what this restaurant chiefly is, is …

City Heights
3561 University Avenue, San Diego
El Paisano Victor's Market
City Heights
4616 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Paris Bakery (Permanently Closed)

When it's shuttered and closed for the day, Paris Bakery on El Cajon Boulevard (between …

City Heights
5223 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Pho Ca Dao
City Heights
4717 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Pho Hoa

If you're craving any kind of beef pho, this is your one-stop-shop. Select from 24 …

City Heights
4134 University Avenue, San Diego
Que Huong Restaurant (Permanently Closed)

Lavishly decorated, at least as compared to the more familiar pho joints that specialize in …

City Heights
4717 University Avenue, San Diego
Red Sea Restaurant

You’ll find richly seasoned Ethiopian cuisine served on a porous pancake, injera. The kitfo (spicy …

City Heights
3695 University Avenue, San Diego
Sabores Colombianos

Prices: Perico (scrambled eggs, rice, plantain, arepa, cornmeal patty), $9.99; Arepa with chicharron, $8.50; empanada, …

City Heights
4455 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Saigon Pho & Seafood Restaurant

The menu has over 250 items on it. Default choice: pho, the filling Vietnamese beef-noodle …

City Heights
4201 B El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Samarkand Uzbek Cafe

Uzbek restaurant set up in a tent in a City heights parking lot during the …

City Heights
3458 University Ave, San Diego
San Diego's Finest Donuts

Longstanding donut shop at the southwestern edge of City Heights. Serves standard and specialty donuts, …

City Heights
4134 University Ave., San Diego
So Saap

Thai and Lao street food specialist making tasty, authentic meals. Some may be too adventurous …

City Heights
4433 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Tacos el Panson

It’s easy to overlook the hole-in-the-wall that is Tacos el Panson across the Boulevard from …

City Heights
5241 University Avenue, 1, San Diego
Taste of Africa Cuisine

At this gathering place for Somalis, the cuisine combines African, Italian, Arab, and Indian influences, …

City Heights
4414 University Avenue, San Diego
Tom's Chinese BBQ

The roast ribs, roast duck, roast pork, and BBQ spare ribs are excellent. So is …

City Heights
4653 University Avenue, San Diego
Trieu Chau

The menu includes Chinese, Khmer, and Lao dishes. In the morning, ask for “djak kvai …

City Heights
4591 El Cajon Boulevard, 2, San Diego
Uncle Joe's Pizzeria

Flower-strewn patio, plush interior, with sandwiches named after navy bases, rich entrées like eggplant Parmesan, …

City Heights
4016 54th Street, 3, San Diego
Van Hoa Vietnamese Restaurant

They have 20 versions of pho -- dac biet (“special combo”) is a good place …

City Heights

RETAIL

4502 University Avenue, San Diego
CashCo
City Heights
3610 University Avenue, San Diego
Jupiter Records & Tapes

Jupiter was founded by Brendan Boyle, whp began his vinyl education while working at a …

City Heights
4168 Poplar Street Ste L, San Diego
Material Happiness

Second hand and sustainable fabrics and fiber craft supplies.

City Heights
5273 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Perla's Mexican Candy
City Heights
4341 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
United Celebral Palsy Thrift Store
City Heights

SERVICES

3791 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
City Heights Performance Annex
City Heights
Contact venue for physical address, San Diego
Comet Theater
City Heights
4108 University Avenue, San Diego
Outdoor Circus Community Center
City Heights
3733 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Wilson Middle School Theater
City Heights

SPORTS

4444 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Landform Fitness
City Heights
4302 Landis Street, San Diego
Mid-City Gym
City Heights
4061 Manzanita Drive, San Diego
Moonstone Health
City Heights
3683 University Avenue, San Diego
Tap Into Yoga & Reiki

Dance, yoga, fitness, and healing arts.

City Heights

THEATERS & PLAYHOUSES

3791 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego
City Heights Performance Annex
City Heights
Contact venue for physical address, San Diego
Comet Theater
City Heights
4108 University Avenue, San Diego
Outdoor Circus Community Center
City Heights
3733 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
Wilson Middle School Theater
City Heights
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