Tender Hooligan

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About

Tender Hooligan in Chula Vista's Third Avenue Village is a Latino-owned audiophile bar and cafe modeled after the Japanese kissaten listening-bar tradition, combining vinyl record retail with craft cocktails, sake, draft beer, and specialty coffee. Sake cocktails and a rotating draft list distinguish the evening program from the morning espresso service, building a dual-daypart format along the same Third Avenue craft-beverage corridor as Chula Vista Brewery. Refurbished British telephone booths stationed throughout the space function as private vinyl listening stations, each outfitted with a turntable and headphones for sampling records before purchase. The weekend programming — DJ sets, live music, and ticketed poetry events — draws audiences through a Mediterranean-Japanese fusion food menu, an approach to vinyl-culture entertainment distinct from the traditional instrument-and-lesson model at Harper's Music Store. The curated record catalog spans jazz, soul, hip-hop, and Latin genres across new and vintage LPs, played through a high-fidelity sound system calibrated specifically for analog vinyl playback at listening-bar volume.