Cucina Urbana pops up temporarily on Hancock Street

Camp Cucina - Cucina Urbana pop-up at Julep events venue.

The restaurant is now operating as a pop-up dining and drinks experience at the Julep events center

San Diego Union-Tribune

Sept. 9, 2020 1 PM PT

Longtime fans of popular Cucina Urbana restaurant in Bankers Hill feared the worst when it didn’t reopen in the spring like all of its sister restaurants in the Urban Kitchen Group.

But last week company officials announced that Cucina Urbana is only temporarily closed. In the meantime, it’s operating as a pop-up dining and drinks experience at the Julep events center near Middletown.

Camp Cucina, Cucina Urbana pop-up at the Julep events venue

With Snake Oil Cocktail Co., Cucina will be offering a limited alfresco menu and cocktails at the indoor/outdoor Julep venue at 1735 Hancock St.

Billed as Camp Cucina, the menu features pizzas, pastas, antipasti and desserts. Dinner is served from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. For details and reservations, visit julepvenue.com/campcucina.

Pam Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.