One WorldBeat Cafe in downtown San Diego operates inside the WorldBeat Cultural Center on Park Boulevard at the western edge of Balboa Park, serving Caribbean vegan soul food from a repurposed one-million-gallon water tower that has housed the nonprofit since 1996. The kitchen grows herbs, greens, and jackfruit in the adjacent Children's EthnoBotany Peace Garden — Balboa Park's first sustainable and edible garden, holding both Certified Monarch Waystation and Certified Wildlife Habitat designations — sourcing its own produce on-site rather than relying on the conventional supply chain that stocks neighboring Balboa Park concessions including Daniel's Coffee. Jamaican patties, African peanut curry with plantains, and the jerk rasta burger anchor a fully plant-based menu built from Caribbean, African, and Indigenous cooking traditions. The center hosts live reggae concerts, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban dance classes, samba drum circles, and belly-dance workshops in the same building, making the cafe an extension of a performing-arts and cultural-education program founded in 1984. Kombucha on tap and herbal turmeric tonics round out the beverage menu alongside the vegan entrees, extending the functional-drink program into the same territory that Kind Corner occupies in the core downtown grid. The highest-investment dish is the international vegan buffet assembled for ticketed cultural events, combining multi-course plant-based spreads with Aztec dance and sound-healing ceremonies.