San Diego Home Cooking opened their first restaurant Center City Cafe in Escondido. Since that time, they have grown to three other San Diego locations including Cafe 56, Lake Murray Cafe and Lakeside Cafe. At a time when many restaurants are downsizing or closing, San Diego Home Cooking is expanding their portfolio by announcing the opening of Mission Valley Cafe in early summer 2011.

San Diego Home Cooking offers affordable prices in a family style setting. What set's San Diego Home Cooking five Cafe restaurants apart is that they not only offer authentic American comfort food but also homemade Hungarian dishes. In addition, they serve an all natural large selection of USDA choice steaks that they cut daily on the premises. Another unique offering that San Diego Home Cooking provides its guests is the made fresh daily, out of this world, dinner rolls, biscuits, secret recipe homemade dressings, hearty soups, gravies, house grind hamburger patties, oven roasted turkey breasts and of course a large selection "mama's" homemade pies.

All San Diego Home Cooking Restaurants are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with a variety of choices spanning a nine page menu. If that isn't enough selection, they even have a secrete underground menu that their customers have come to love.

Serving great food and service isn't the only thing that endears San Diego Home Cooking to the communities they serve. They are known for being very community focused in each of the areas their restaurants reside; supporting countless schools, churches, youth and civic groups.

The Mission Valley Cafe will open in late April in the former Love's BBQ space (967 Camino Del Rio South) at the I-8 freeway and Mission Center Road exit. The newest edition to the San Diego Home Cooking family includes 4928 square foot of space that will seat 150 for dining, plus another seven to 10 tables on their outdoor patio. The new Mission Valley Cafe will also have an expansive 50 seat bar, with a full liquor license.