Review The Warehouse Cafe - San Diego

I was invited by a Club Viva member on a great and orange autumn day with Rock Wall's fantastic wine. I was sold on the idea of becoming a member, and have been happy for my past few visits.

This place is fun. There is good wine, friendly staff, a gorgeous view and nice outdoor space. We joined the wine club within 10 minutes of walking in the door.

Hunted all over the place for a good wine that I could get in a nice presentation box for some clients and Rock Wall came through with a great local zin in a simple but elegant package. It was a huge hit with our clients.

The inside for the wedding was very nice, however the location is a bet sketchy... and good luck with finding parking..

We attended a murder mystery evening and the venue was great. The staff was helpful and friendly. They served appetizers which were Bavarian themed and quite tasty.

It can be transfered from one look, to another easily. It has clean bathrooms and parking

Held an event there and it was perfect!

(This review and the star rating mostly focus on the coordination provided by Moniker Events. The venue itself was 5-stars!) My husband and I got married at Moniker Warehouse at the end of June. We loved the layout of the venue (with the cocktail space and separate ceremony/reception space). We also liked the built-in pieces (the bar, DJ spot, and crate "chandeliers") and the ability to customize everything else. The space feels intimate and still spacious, which was perfect for our small wedding. We also chose the Moniker Events month-of coordination package. We hoped that the coordination would make the final month less stressful, but it caused more stress. We worked with Cassandra and Melanie as our co-coordinators and had another assistant on our wedding day. We were planning the wedding from the East Coast, so we had weekly calls with the two coordinators. We were appreciative of the weekly calls, but email communication between calls was spotty, and it often seemed like they only skimmed our emails in preparation for the call (e.g., they would ask for items from us during the calls that we had previously provided by email). Action items following the calls didn't always get taken care of, either. It seemed to us that most of the work they were doing for our wedding occurred only during our weekly phone calls. We had to remind them repeatedly about things that they had said they would take care of. For example, about a month before the wedding they said they would email our photographer to get an estimate of how long photos would take, but this email wasn't sent until less than a week before the wedding (despite several reminders). They also missed a deadline with one of our vendors, despite indicating repeatedly that they would take care of it in time. Even when they did respond to our emails or vendor emails, the emails would frequently lack the details we had discussed, and in some cases we had to follow up with the vendors to fill in the gaps. The day of the wedding they did a wonderful job decorating the space based on our vision. They also agreed to arrange the floral centerpieces (which was a nice surprise and a big help to us). The space looked even better than we could have imagined! However, there were multiple things that were overlooked in the day-of coordination. Despite working with us to create a very detailed timeline, the wrong songs were initially played for our ceremony, they forgot to grab us for a golden hour photo shoot, there was a mix-up with our transportation at the end of the evening, etc. We suspect that some of these issues occurred because one of our coordinators (Cassandra) left part way through the event. If you want to avoid additional stress leading up to your wedding, we would recommend you look elsewhere for coordinators. Edited to add: We had a video camera set up at the back of the venue to capture our ceremony and toasts. We received our footage back and found out that the coordinators and assistant were standing directly in front of the camera at various points during the ceremony (blocking the view). However, we've been in contact with Aly at Moniker and she seems very responsive to our feedback and genuinely committed to improving the coordination experience moving forward.