Save Miracles Cafe

Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 15:49 —by oso
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Miracles CafeMiracles Cafe, a rustic seaside coffeehouse in coastal North County, has a foreboding tagline on its website: “It’s a miracle we’re still here.” Unfortunately, they might not be for long. While the cafe has been independently owned by German emigre, Brigitte Menges for the past 14 years, its funky charm is threatened by a development project that plans to put a two story office building with a two level underground parking garage in its place.

Such a move would radically alter the laid back feel of surfer-town Cardiff-by-the-Sea as well as threaten small locally owned businesses throughout the area. Already corporate owned Starbucks Cafe, which moved into Cardiff in 2002, has taken away much of Miracles’ business. For the remaining loyal customers, however, the demoliton of Miracles to replace it with a two story office complex would mean the end of an era of sunny Sunday mornings on the patio with live jazz and casual conversation. It would mean the end of Tuesday’s open-mic night where local musicians and poets meet weekly to share their newest inspirations and muses. Frankly, the end of Miracles Cafe would mean the end of Cardiff-by-the-Sea’s unique personality and heritage in exchage for an “Orange Countified” model of suburban development.

You can voice your concerns about the development proposal at tomorrow night’s Encinitas city hall meeting beginning at 6 p.m. (the city site says in one place that the meeting begins at 6 and another, 7) Driving directions are available in PDF format or alternatively you could use Mapquest.

Update: You can also voice your opposition and/or concerns quickly on an online petition that has just been created.

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4 Responses to “Save Miracles Cafe”

  1. Thivai Abhor said on Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 5:48

    Oso, as an expatriate I am sadden to hear that another beautiful, soulful place is threatened –isn’t this what San Diego is about (excluding the revnous land-developers who dominate its politics)? Good luck, I hope tht it is there when I come out during the holidays, I was hoping to pop in and meet you there–best,

    Thivai Abhor

  2. Thivai Abhor said on Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 5:49

    Sorry for the typos–speed typing before going off to teach this morning!

  3. El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » San Pablo said on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 12:14

    [...] For lunch yesterday I walked a few blocks up to Mama Buzz Cafe on Telegraph. It reminds me a lot of Miracles Cafe: same hipster mugs, same angry cutish baristas, and the same customers. White, with tattoos, MacBooks, Converses, and iced lattes. The café looks purposely run down, like $200 jeans that have been ripped at the knees and worn at the crotch. Each customer seemed the polar opposite of the immaculately dressed men and women walking down San Pablo. Whereas San Pablo’s pedestrians sport starched, bleached white shirts, Mama Buzz’s cyberhipsters slouch over their laptops in wrinkled and stained cowboy shirts from the 1970’s. Whereas San Pablo’s pedestrians glide gracefully down the sidewalk in polished leather shoes and bright white basketball sneakers, Mama Buzz’s customers shuffle around in sandals and Converses scrawled with drunken Sharpie nonsense. [...]

  4. El Oso » Blog Archive » No More Miracles said on Monday, February 11, 2008, 15:09

    [...] place just like Miracles. Of course, I knew then that he was full of shit. Miracles was something special. It was one of the few spaces where people of all generations and all types - hipsters, skaters, [...]

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