A Local Cook Was Gifted a Restaurant - This is Her Story

San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · Oct 28, 2022 · 1h 24m

Mariana Cardenas went home that day, gathered her five kids, told them the news. Then she called all the government assistance programs and informed them the Cardenas family no longer needed their help. "My oldest son is autistic," she explains. "Two weeks earlier he'd told me he wanted to go to art school and I had to tell him we couldn't afford it. So I got to tell him he was going." The this that happened is one of my favorite stories of good I've come across in the San Diego food and drink scene. Mariana shares her story on today's podcast. How she'd taken a job as a janitor for the Navy…