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Casa Vega is Back!

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The History of Costa Vega

My grandparents when they immigrated from Mexico, they opened one of the first restaurants on the other street. It was called Cafe Caliente and was there for 18 years and thrived. Back in the US prohibition, Tijuana became super glamorous and it's where all the Americans went to drink and gamble. And so my grandparents worked to Oa Caliente, which was a massive resort hotel and racetrack for Americans down there. They thought they had seen everything right every obstacle recessions. The riots. Or the earthquakes. Right. I mean, I was in West LA when that earthquake hit and it felt like the world was that I couldn't imagine what it was like in

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