MAKE Cafe in Normal Heights, San Diego is a nonprofit restaurant and workforce training program relocating to a permanent home at 4712 Felton St near the intersection of Felton and Adams Avenue in the 92116 ZIP. Founded by Anchi Mei in 2017, MAKE stands for Merging Agriculture, Kitchens & Employment, and the operation trains refugee and immigrant women through a paid 12-week culinary work-experience program that has graduated more than 400 participants from over 30 countries since its founding. Mei holds degrees in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University and dual master's degrees in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley, and the Kensington-Normal Heights Branch Library on Adams anchors the civic corridor where MAKE's community programming and the neighborhood's public services overlap. The globally inspired menu draws on trainees' home cuisines — Afghan chicken tacos on handmade blue corn tortillas topped with Haitian pikliz, kofta sausage breakfast sandwiches on milk bread, herbaceous salads, and quiche made with produce sourced from MAKE's own one-acre farm in Mission Valley near Snapdragon Stadium. The women-owned designation reflects both the founder's leadership and the program's focus on female participants. Felton Street's position one block south of Adams Avenue places the cafe near the commercial core of Normal Heights, and the fitness and wellness community on Adams includes The Yard Gym Normal Heights, which draws a health-conscious crowd that overlaps with MAKE's organic, locally sourced menu. The farm-to-table supply chain runs through the Mission Valley farm, where trainees learn agricultural skills before rotating into kitchen and front-of-house positions at the cafe. A CSA subscription program gives neighborhood residents direct access to the farm's seasonal produce. Chef Renee Fox oversees the current menu, balancing the globally diverse flavor profiles that make each training cohort's contribution to the kitchen a reflection of its participants' heritage.