{"id":435914,"date":"2025-12-09T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435914\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:00:21","slug":"the-grinch-serves-christmas-to-pop-up-at-two-local-pizzerias-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435914\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Grinch Serves Christmas\u2019 to pop up at two local pizzerias \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two festive weekends only, Buonasera Del Mar and Bongiorno\u2019s Solana Beach will host \u201cThe Grinch Serves Christmas\u201d, a playful pop-up where The Grinch will serve pizza to guests, pose for photo ops and spread holiday cheer in his own unique Grinchy way.<\/p>\n<p>The local pizzerias will be decked out with holiday decor and holiday music will play as The Grinch takes over the pizza oven and serves up their signature New York-style pizzas. The pop-ups will be held at Buonasera Del Mar on Dec. 13-14 and at Bongiorno\u2019s Solana Beach Dec. 20\u201321.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Guests enjoy pizza at Buonasera Del Mar, which will host &quot;The Grinch Serves Christmas&quot; pop-up. (Courtesy Buonasera)\" width=\"3938\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DMT-L-GRINCHPOPUP-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9545058\" \/>Guests enjoy pizza at Buonasera Del Mar, which will host \u201cThe Grinch Serves Christmas\u201d pop-up. (Courtesy Buonasera)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love being part of this community,\u201d said Dan Shwartzblat, owner of Buonasera and Bongiorno\u2019s in a news release. \u201cThis event is about bringing people together and celebrating the season \u2013 seeing families connect, kids laughing, and everyone slowing down to share a meal and a moment. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buonasera Del Mar, the coastal location overlooking the lagoon, is located at 2212 Carmel Valley Road, Suite 1. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/buonaserapizza.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buonaserapizza.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bongiorno\u2019s Solana Beach is located at 524 Stevens Avenue, Suite 10 in Solana Beach. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/bongiornospizza.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bongiornospizza.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For two festive weekends only, Buonasera Del Mar and Bongiorno\u2019s Solana Beach will host \u201cThe Grinch Serves Christmas\u201d,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7350,7351,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-435914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar-times","12":"tag-del-mar-times-things-to-do","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115690447355610912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}