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It was a matter of being at the right place at the right time. While at the hospital to be with her grandmother who was having surgery, Valerie Muñoz and her mother, Martha, stopped at what was then The Sea Ridge Café in the space near the front lobby on PVH’s third floor. Martha struck up a conversation with one of Sea Ridge’s owners and learned that they were thinking of leaving this location.

It’s always been a dream of Valerie’s to own her own coffee shop, and taking over the café in Paradise Valley Hospital offered her and her family that opportunity. As Sea Ridge ended, the Muñoz family finalized negotiations with the hospital to allow them to open BNE Café, named after the youngest members of the family, Izabella (“Bella”) and Noah, the “E” for “events.”

The whole family, including Valerie’s brother, Johnathan, and Martha’s partner, Christian López, immediately got to work to customize the café with new fixtures, wall art, and they even created their own coffee bean blend to help inaugurate their opening in July of 2024. “I had to think about it,” Valerie reflects, “But the timing was perfect, and the opportunity was there.” Together, Valerie and Martha serve specialty coffees and food items such as sandwiches, salads, bakery items, and snack foods. “We also sell small gift items, like what you would find in a traditional gift shop.” They are hoping to be able to sell flowers in the near future.

Despite the growth of this family project, the Muñoz family suffered a loss with the passing of the family matriarch in October, mother and grandmother Guillermina Cuevas. Valerie and Martha attribute their spirit of entrepreneurship to Guillermina. She and her husband owned two restaurants in Tijuana and La Paz, from the 70s to the 90s. Martha and her husband opened a café in 2001, and Martha owned a catering and events venue business in North Park from 2015 to this year. Since Valerie was a child, she has been working at one of her family’s businesses, learning the ins and outs of the hospitality industry, being a restaurateur, and an entrepreneur. “My grandmother was a big reason why we decided to partner with the hospital and start BNE here,” explains Valerie. “She was with us when we first saw this location, and she’s the one who encouraged us to go for it! We owe her so much, and we miss her, but she’s here in spirit.”

BNE Café is located near the hospital’s front lobby on the third floor, and they are open M-F, 6 AM- 4PM, and hope to soon be open on weekends.