The Best Dude. No Debate.
From Kenos to the Pacific Coast — this is a permanent record of one of the genuinely great ones. Long live Kenos. Encinitas is lucky to have you.
Vaka — love you man. Genuinely.
Kenos made you. The Shanty gets the best version of that. And everyone who knows what Kenos was knows exactly what I'm talking about — that place had a standard, and you were part of it.
Long live Kenos. And long live you, brother. Encinitas is lucky. I'm lucky. This page is proof.
If you're in Encinitas and you're not at The Shanty, you're missing out. And if you're at The Shanty and you run into Vaka — you just won. Say what's up. He's the real deal.
Coastal San Diego attracts a lot of people. Vaka is one of the ones who belongs here. The North County scene is better for having him in it.
Kenos was a bar and restaurant that stood for something. The kind of place where the people who worked there weren't just staff — they were the culture. Vaka was part of that culture. When something real ends, the people from it carry it forward.
Now he's at The Shanty in Encinitas. Different coast. Same standard. That's what happens when you're actually built right — the scene changes, you don't. Long live Kenos. And the standard it set lives on in everyone it made.
Kenos made him.
The Shanty gets the best of that.
Long live Kenos.
Long live Vaka.
This page is permanent. It lives at this URL forever. Forward it, share it, drop it in the group chat — Vaka deserves to know people see it.