Puerto Vallarta closes Louise restaurant, looks for replacement site

March 29, 2019

Puerto Vallarta has closed its Louise Avenue restaurant, but owner Luis Gutierrez hopes to find another location.

“We’re looking around the Sioux Falls area,” he said.

He wants to have a second restaurant that’s similar in size to the original location on East 10th Street, which seats 180 diners. The restaurant at 2520 S. Louise Ave. could hold 300, and “that was too big,” he said, so he didn’t renew the lease. “With a restaurant this big, you have to sell a lot of burritos and chimis by the end of the month.”

Gutierrez opened on the east side of Sioux Falls 23 years ago. “I was in the first in Sioux Falls,” he said of the Mexican restaurants that are cooking food from his native country. He takes pride in his food, which is made from scratch and offered at a “decent price.”

“I don’t want to close,” he said of the Louise restaurant, which opened in 2007 and served its final food on March 24. “I knew I had a lot of regular customers.”

Many of them are finding their way to the east side of Sioux Falls, he said.

“Over there, I’ve seen people from kids to having their own kids,” Gutierrez said. “We’re not leaving there. We’ll keep cooking.”

 

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Puerto Vallarta closes Louise restaurant, looks for replacement site

Puerto Vallarta has closed its Louise Avenue restaurant, but owner Luis Gutierrez hopes to find another location.

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