Scratch House Vegan Specialties

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About

Scratch House Vegan Specialties in College Area, San Diego, produces handmade cultured cashew cheeses, charcuterie boards, and fermented sauces from a production kitchen at 6309 University Avenue in the 92115 ZIP. Chef-owner Tony built the business around cashew-based cheese cultures that undergo a multi-day fermentation process, yielding wheels and spreads with the tang and rind development of traditional dairy aging. Wholesale distribution currently places the cheese line in restaurants across Southern California, with Donna Jean in San Diego serving as the primary retail partner for in-restaurant sales. The University Avenue kitchen also runs a catering operation and private-dining program, producing full vegan charcuterie spreads, roasted vegetable platters, and multicourse seated menus for event bookings. The production space sits in the Rolando Park section of College Area, east of SDSU and the main campus dining corridor, sharing the same University Avenue commercial stretch that supports the plant-based menu at The Purple Mint Vegan Bistro on El Cajon Boulevard. Nationwide shipping extends the product catalog beyond the walk-in customer base, with cheese wheels, sauce jars, and charcuterie kits packed and shipped directly from the University Avenue facility. The NAICS classification 311 covers the bakery and food-manufacturing scope of the operation, which also produces artisan sauces in small batches for retail and wholesale accounts. Retail locations carrying the Scratch House line are listed on the company's website, and the brand's 6,100-plus Instagram following reflects the niche demand for cultured-cashew products among San Diego's plant-based dining community. The same University Avenue bakery cluster that includes Paris Bakery's pastry production a few blocks west anchors a food-manufacturing corridor where small-batch producers operate alongside retail storefronts. The fermentation timeline for each cashew wheel runs between three and seven days depending on the culture strain and target flavor profile.