Ché Café, Community venue at University of California San Diego, US.

Ché Café is a music and arts venue on the University of California San Diego campus in La Jolla that operates as a worker cooperative. The space holds about 170 people and operates entirely through volunteer effort and collective decision-making.

Students founded the venue in 1980, naming it after Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara while also creating the double meaning 'Cheap Healthy Eats'. An 18-year dispute with the University was resolved in 2017 when a new lease secured the space's future.

The name nods to Che Guevara but was registered with the university as the backronym "Cheap Healthy Eats" to avoid political scrutiny. In the 1980s the collective began hosting reggae and punk shows, and by the 1990s the venue was internationally recognized in hardcore, punk, post-punk and indie rock. It remains a DIY-focused music venue and an on-and-off vegan cafe and catering operation.

The space is located within the campus and is straightforward to find once you are in the university area. Guests should bring cash for entry and arrive early on event days, as the limited space fills up quickly.

The name is a backronym: founders registered "Cheap Healthy Eats" with UCSD administrators to deflect political scrutiny, while the primary nod was to Che Guevara. The sign above the roofline still shows "Ché Café" with an accent over the e.