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Little Lion Cafe is located in Ocean Beach, San Diego, nest to the world famous Sunset Cliffs! We ar
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07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July! Be safe, and we’ll see you tomorrow at 8am!

07/01/2026

Very big and special happy birthday to the woman who writes our newsletter, also known as Mom! We would be lost with out her!

06/30/2026

News & Menus!

Dear Friends,

No time to be chit chatty today because, to be honest, the Little Lion Communications Department is already functioning solely on Holiday Brain.

Here’s what you need to know:
Little Lion will be closed on July 4th.
Friday’s Take Home Dinner includes many Food for the Fourth favorites. Feel free to stock up for the big day, as all of these items will hold well.
The Take Home Dinner also includes a beautiful flag cake to share with your friends and family.

That’s our very limited but important news for this week. If we don’t see you before the 4th, have a great holiday.

Gratefully yours,
The Little Lions

(and Mom)

06/29/2026

Dear Friends,

As most of you are aware, next weekend is the Fourth of July! Yay!!! We will be closed the actual day, Saturday 7/4/26. However, we will be offering an extended Friday Take Home Dinner Menu to help you through your weekend festivities! See the menu below.

We will still be sending out our weekly newsletter on Tuesday with the rest of next week’s menus, so keep an eye out!

In love & celebration,
The Little Lions

06/26/2026

A little a sneak peek at our Summer Dinner menu… stop by to see it in person! Reservations available Friday & Saturday nights!

06/24/2026

News + Menus

Dear Friends,

You’d think I’d have learned by now that no matter how long I stand in front of the fridge with the door open, all of the ingredients in there are not just going to magically form themselves into something I feel like eating. I even go back after a few minutes and open the door again, because I hope that something will have changed during the time that I stood in front of the pantry, hoping something in there would just jump out at me.

I was thinking about this as I looked at Anne-Marie’s Monday Meal Service menu. If I just got this service, my Magical Fridge Dream would finally come true. I’m just going to put a couple of pictures of the kinds of things that are included in this offering in case you, too, have a defective fridge that doesn’t make you lunch.

If you are a fan of France, you can put your beret on this week, both with the Peasant dinner on Thursday night and the Friday Take Home Dinner. And if you are a fan of the French soccer team, we won’t hold that against you. They play Norway on Friday and we are Team Norway around here (when we’re not Team Belgium). And even though we won’t be rooting for France, we’ll never pass up a croque monsieur or a bœuf bourguignon!

That’s our news for this week. Hope to see you all soon.

Gratefully yours,
The Little Lions
(and Mom)

06/17/2026

News + Menus…

Dear Friends,

We are in high summer mode here at Little Lion Headquarters. It’s time for getting the kids’ to tennis camps; for digging through the garage, wondering where the heck the fins are; and for vowing to have more picnics once you dust off the basket. Who else here wants to just wear wrinkled linen and worn out espadrilles and not pay attention to anything besides what you’re going to eat after your nap?

Anne-Marie has you covered on the summer food front this week. Peasant’s dinner this week is going to make you want to go home afterwards to binge watch Pagnol movies. And on Friday, you don’t even have to turn on the stove—you can have that picnic right in your kitchen courtesy of the Friday Take Home Dinner. (Please be advised that no actual backyard chickens were harmed in the making of this menu.)

Anne-Marie has also been filling the counter everyday with some spectacular cakes, cookies, and pastries. If you are a mostly nighttime visitor to Little Lion, make a note to come in one morning to treat yourself to some of these beauties.

That’s our (short) (summery) news for this week. Hope your summer is going swimmingly so far!

Gratefully yours,
The Little Lions
(and Mom)

06/12/2026

Little Lion in the afternoon = L’Apero Plate… now add a glass of wine, you’ve got yourself a blissful beginning to your weekend.

🫒 L’Apero Plate $12
🍷 With a glass of Bacchus White or Chilled Zini Red $20

06/11/2026

News + Menus!

Dear Friends,

Deirdre sent me a picture of a fun and smiley group who had come to Little Lion to celebrate a combined birthday party. My first thought was, “dang, I wish there was a just a bit more room at Little Lion to accommodate gatherings like this.” But then, I was flooded with memories of all the wonderful times my family, including not only my parents and siblings, but also aunts, uncles, and a boatload of cousins crammed into our grandparents’ small farmhouse for dinner when I was little. Or the many, many times the girls’ grandparents, Don and Arlene, invited our own large family, as well as all of their friends, and half the neighborhood over for holidays at their O.B. home. These were the kind of gatherings where you had to hold in your elbows while you were eating, because the person in the chair next to you was about 2.5 inches away. It was the kind of gathering where, if you were a kid, you’d loudly play double Chopsticks with your cousin on the piano as long as you could get away with it. The kind of gathering where the evening started out noisy, but then quieted down as the adults’ conversation turned to more serious topics. The kind of gathering where, if you were that Chopsticks-playing kid, you’d finally wear yourself out from all the fun and a full tummy so you’d have to find a corner to curl up in, and then you would be lulled to sleep by the softened voices and the clinking of silverware and glasses.

And, I must say, the kitchen deserves credit for preparing the good food that makes people want to come to Little Lion for celebrations, but the front of house staff really knows how to keep it fun for these large groups. Champagne shots anyone?

Happy Birthday Erin and Amanda. We hear you got matching tattoos of the Methuselah Tree after a visit to see it. And then you came to Little Lion! Pretty special, that.

So friends, consider taking a page from Erin and Amanda’s book and come to Little Lion next time you want to celebrate a birthday, or a holiday*, or a tattoo even with all your buddies. (You do have to plan ahead a bit and let us know when you want to come—it takes the staff a minute to play Tetris with the tables to get you all seated.)

Now, if only we could fit a piano into the dining room.

That’s our news for this week. Hope to see you soon!

Gratefully yours,
The Little Lions
(and Mom)

*Special note: You won’t be able to celebrate the 4th of July with us, alas because Little Lion will be closed

06/08/2026

Seeking a Brunch Pantry Line Chef. Part-time. Must be available Weekends. We are a fast-paced Brunch Cafe.

2-3 shifts a week. Hours range from 6am - 4pm (Brunch Service) & 2pm-11pm (Dinner Service).

Please email your resume to [email protected], with a couple of lines about you & your work experience. Include your availability.

Address

1424 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard
San Diego, CA
92107

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 2pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 2pm
Friday	9am - 2pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm
Sunday	9am - 2pm

Website

http://Thelittlelioncafe.com/

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