Logo printed takeout bags for Kensington restaurants.

The smallest main street in town

The City of San Diego describes Kensington's stretch of Adams Avenue as a miniature main street. Coffee shops, restaurants, a library branch and the Ken Theatre all share a few blocks. That is the whole business district.

Small is good news for you. In a big shopping area, your bag is one of hundreds. On Adams Avenue, your bag is one of a handful. When somebody walks past the coffee shop with your name on their arm, the people sitting outside actually notice.

Kensington's first subdivision dates to 1910, and the neighborhood was named after a borough of London. It still has the stone gateways, old street lamps and curving roads. People here care how the place looks. They will care how your bag looks too.

Canyons on three sides, regulars on every block

The City notes that Kensington sits on a narrow mesa with steep slopes on three sides. That shape matters for food. Few people pass through Kensington on the way to somewhere else. The people who eat here mostly live here.

That means your best customers are the same households, ordering again and again. Every repeat order is another bag on the same kitchen counter, the same porch, the same walk home under the street lamps.

• Weeknight pickups: a parent grabs dinner on the way back from work and walks it home.
• Weekend mornings: pastries and coffee go out in bags to the park or the porch.
• Movie nights: people grab a bite before or after a show at the Ken and carry it a few blocks.

With a crowd this loyal, a printed bag is not about getting found by strangers. It is about staying the first name that pops into their head when someone says what should we eat tonight.

A look that fits the stone gates

Kensington leans classic. Think old shop signs, not neon. A simple serif or a hand drawn mark in one dark color looks right on brown kraft. Deep green, navy or burgundy all sit well on the paper. A bakery or cafe that wants a cleaner look can choose white kraft instead, since we print on brown kraft and bright white.

You have 12 × 14 in of space on the front. You do not need to fill all of it. A medium sized logo with plenty of brown around it looks calm and confident, which fits this street.

If you are still deciding, the Mission Hills page has a test that shows how far away your name stays readable, and the poster above shows your bag with your name before you spend a dollar.

Built for the walk home

Most Kensington orders travel by foot. The bag is 12″ × 7″ × 14″, made of 110 GSM kraft, with flat paper handles and a square bottom. It carries up to 22 lb, so a family dinner and a bottle of something cold make it home without a sag.

Our neighbors along Adams Avenue have their own page too. Read how Normal Heights restaurants use printed bags, just west down the same avenue. Every page on this site leads back to the same thing: logo printed takeout bags for San Diego restaurants, set up free and shipped free.