Everyone ate 16 on our Friday
morning and happy Friday to you.
OK, get this. Did you know that
Chula Vista was once considered
the lemon capital of the world?
You heard that right?
And although the Groves may be long gone,
the celebration continues this
Saturday with Lemon themed specials,
costumes and pie eating contests
this morning, Kevin Lewis,
co-owner of three punk ales and Rodrigo
Rodriguez along with his wife Sylvia
of Algo Bueno joined us this morning to
share their special citrus creations.
Good morning to both of you.
All of you, I should say.
Thank you for being
with us today. Good
morning, good morning, Kevin. I want
to start with you.
This will be 3 punk ales
4th year participating.
You guys opened on August 6,
2017 on Lemon Festival Day.
Tell us what it means to be a
part of this year to year and what
this year is going to look like.
Well, this year is going to look
a lot different from last year.
Seeing how there wasn't a lemon fest to have.
Like you said, we opened
four years ago on Lemon Fest.
Chula Vista is just a huge community.
It's community based, community driven.
It's all the locals that
support us that keep U.S. Open.
Lemon Fest is a huge huge
thing for Chula Vista now.
This one is a slightly slimmer
down model with those different
twists to it they'll still have.
Some bands playing some stuff
the the arts in the park,
so we're just happy to be a part
of it. Awesome in Rodrigo and Sylvia.
You guys are helping to provide some
of the food for the event as well.
Tell us about Albano.
Albino we are established in 2015.
Started as a mom and pops pop up.
We were able to get our first brick and
mortar last year but with the pandemic
man we had to leave downtown and we
came back home to chill the Vista.
So this is our first Lemon festival.
We're going to be a part of and I'm
just happy to actually be a part of it.
Not just attending it when our
producer brought in these you cabals
is that what they're called I?
I was amazed. They look incredible.
There's some lemon slices with him.
I'm gonna try one out but I want you to
tell us what's on the menu. 'cause I.
I have to take a bite of one of these.
So we're going to have on the meeting.
Tomorrow is our staples,
including the UK balls that
you're going to be eating.
We're gonna have our arepas or lokoya it's a
hot Peppers stuffed with or chicken breasts.
You're gonna have a party to another
idea about stuffed with our pulled pork
and we're going to have our Cubano sandwich.
We do our stuff a little bit differently.
We don't put ourselves with a certain
country where just Chicanos doing food
in a different way and doing it with
our flavors and something you're gonna
get here is albino something good.
I love that we just heard
you guys all do that.
Arepas are South American right
I love I love the variety.
Yeah, South America we do him
a little bit differently.
There's some people eat everything on top.
Some people stuff on we stuff
ours and everything you get here
is just going to be a little bit
more of a fusion with what we do.
You know, like I said,
we're just Chicanos with passports,
man doing other peoples foods.
Then we do it our way and we just
hope to bring a smile and you know
bring some happiness to everybody.
So we come to the Lemon festival tomorrow.
You know, I hope you enjoy that Sylvia.
Tell us do you have a favorite thing
on the menu? What's your involvement?
I'm actually the chef.
I cook everything there we go.
Yeah, so I like everything.
Yeah, there we go good
whatever you get I stand by
it and everything. She fully
supports. Whatever choice you
make at the Loveland festival.
I also wanna get a little bit
more on the beers that we are.
I shouldn't say beers,
I should say seltzer,
tell us about what shelters
we have here and what sellers
are going to be offered for
the festival so the seltzer.
You have in front of you and I
have here is 1 off or lemon fest.
It's going to be our
strawberry lemonade you know.
Gotta has a huge hint of the lemonade
with a little strawberry backing.
Our shelters are around 5.3% alcohol.
There are a.
Low calorie pretty much almost 0 sugar.
Basically no carbs in there,
so it's that easy day
drinking crushable thing.
You can have all throughout
Fleming Fest that still leaves
will be it will be a $5 special.
We also have a watermelon and a
grape soda one on cap as well
even though it's 8:20 in the morning.
I'm still trying the seltzer and
it tastes awesome. I love it.
Also Kevin you were telling us there's
something going on today right?
Uh fundraiser golf tournament.
Yeah, it's the email Brown golf tournament.
Email brown started.
At the podcast from our contact
my partner Steve Garcia.
They started a podcast social club.
It's raising money for Children and
families in the community that need help.
I believe there at 10 or $20,000.
I can't be quoted on that right now,
but this first annual one is taking off today
at the Chula Vista Golf course at noon.
Awesome, thank you guys. All of
you for being with us this morning.
Kevin Rodrigo Sylvia.
You got plenty of food
options from algal bueno.
You got plenty of drink options.
As well that strawberry seltzer that
we just tried and I believe even our
anchors are going to be tasting that as well.
More information on 3rd Ave
village.com/lemonfestival.
Thank you all for being
with us this morning. Thank
you for having us. Yeah you guys.