Big Expansion News From San Diego Restaurant Group Behind Born & Raised | Consortium Holdings To Partner With Modern Times For New Coffeehouse, Will Open Butcher Shop & Reboot East Village's Neighborhood
March 21, 2019
The hospitality group behind such San Diego hotspots as Born & Raised, Ironside Fish & Oyster, Craft & Commerce and many others is showing no signs of slowing down. Consortium Holdings is in for a busy 2019, with a brunch-focused restaurant near completion in Little Italy and a 19th story cocktail lounge set to unveil later this year at downtown's InterContinental Hotel. We have also received word that the rapidly-expanding company is opening a sandwich shop, Negroni Bar, and Modern Times-partnered coffee house in the East Village, as well as revamping its 12-year-old Neighborhood bar & restaurant.
Started by Arsalun Tafazoli with the opening of Neighborhood in 2007, Consortium Holdings (also known as CH Projects) now has 13 concepts scattered around San Diego, including cocktail-focused Polite Provisions, classy dive bar El Dorado, neighborhood bar & restaurant Craft & Commerce with adjacent tiki-speakeasy False Idol, two locations of its Japanese fusion restaurant Underbelly, modern barbershop Dover Honing Co., seafood-centric Ironside Fish & Oyster, bi-level steakhouse Born & Raised, and the most recent concept - Raised By Wolves - a cocktail supply store, high-end spirits shop, and speakeasy. In 2017, the ballooned budget of Born & Raised forced Consortium Holding's to sell off its Petco Park adjacent dual concepts Rare Form and Fairweather.
Artistic rendering of Neighborhood revamp to be done by NYC-based Home Studios
Adding to Consortium's lengthy to-do list for 2019, the company will close it's East Village beer & burger bar Neighborhood next week for a six-month renovation that will drastically overhaul the restaurant's design and menu. CH Projects will also open an industry-focused sandwich shop and Negroni-focused bar called J & Tony's Discount Cured Meats and Negroni Warehouse at 631 9th Avenue where the company's now-defunct Juice Saves once operated. Expect a 10 seat bar with a fast casual in-house eatery centered around cured-meat sandwiches from Corporate Chef Jason McCloud and a aperitivo-centric craft cocktail list from CH beverage director Anthony Schmidt. Next door, in the space where Coffee & Tea Collective sat recently relocating to 704 J Street, Consortium Holdings has teamed up with San Diego's Modern Times Beer to open a coffee shop called Invigatorium set to debut by this summer.
That's not all! We've also received word that Consortium Holdings co-founder Arsalun Tafazoli has purchased the shopping plaza at 3401 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, which sits across the street from Blind Lady AleHouse and approximately a half mile from CH's Polite Provisions. There is no word on what the plaza will be used for. We reached out to Tafazoli for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publishing.
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