San Diego restaurant openings: Biggie's Burgers and Split Bakehouse

San Diego restaurant openings: Biggie’s Burgers and Split Bakehouse

Biggie's cheesburger, fries and chocolate shake

Feb. 26, 2021 10:33 AM PT

Biggie’s Burgers opens in Vista

Biggie’s Burgers, a small ‘50s-style burger chain with locations in San Clemente and Pacific Beach, opened its third location last month in Vista.

Founded in 1991 in San Clemente, Biggie’s makes and preps most of its ingredients — patties, fries and onion rings — in-house. The new Vista location is in the Target shopping center at 1711 University Ave., Vista. Visit biggiesburgers.com.

Split Bakehouse opens in La Mesa

Split Bakehouse, the 3-year-old vegan wholesale bakery owned by Vanessa Corrales, opened its first public bakery on Feb. 10 at the Grossmont Center outdoor mall.

Over the past three years, Split has built a large distribution network for its vegan pastries at more than 40 coffee shops and restaurants countywide, including Camp Coffee in Oceanside and Jaunt Coffee in the Miramar area. The bakery specializes in vegan laminated pastries with monthly holiday specials for online pre-orders. It also makes its own vegan butter and eggs. Pablo Mendez is Split’s executive pastry chef.

For now, the Grossmont location of Split is offering to-go sales through a takeout window near the mall’s food court at 5500 Grossmont Center Drive. For details, visit splitbakehouse.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.