Well loved beachside diner, John’s Ocean Beach Café (2898 Sloat Boulevard), which celebrates 31 years in business on November 1, is threatened with a developer’s wrecking ball, as Grub Street discovers today. There are plans heading before the City this week to demolish the café and several other adjacent buildings in order to build a five-story mixed-use building that would include condos as well as a 23,000 square-foot “open-air market.” The café, popular among its Sunset neighbors and zoo-goers, is therefore kind of endangered, and a waitress there who answered our call says that “it’s all still up in the air right now” as far as whether they’ll have to close soon or not. In the meantime, here’s a brief history of the place courtesy of the Sunset Beacon from 2004. File under: Developing. [Grub Street]
