Oaxaca Restaurant and Cantina Re-Opening Next Week

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​It's been just over a month since Oaxaca Restaurant and Cantina, the downtown Phoenix eatery and 30-year-plus landmark near the state Capitol, closed and its former owners, the Verdugo family, forced to go through a trustee sale.

But starting at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jose Martinez, Vice President of Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., the lender of the original owners, tells me Oaxaca is back in business as a bank-owned property.

"We'll be open for lunch and gradually build up to regular operating hours," Martinez says of Oaxaca's temporary 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. schedule. "And we've hired back everyone who re-applied, so regular customers will recognize some of the same faces."

In addition to keeping the same menu (with a few new specials to be announced at a later date), Martinez adds his company plans to formally list Oaxaca for sale after operating it for a period of three months.

"We're happy people can enjoy Oaxaca again," Martinez says. "The calabacitas are back!"

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Oaxaca Restaurant and Cantina

1516 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ

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Corey
Corey

The bank doesn't own the name and they don't own the employees and they don't own the recipes. It's NOT going to be same food and how are they using the name of the business? The repo'd the building, not the name. The family needs to get an attorney to block the bank from using the original name.

Paul
Paul

I am surprised that the New Times does not know where downtown is.  There are varying definitions of downtown but they rarely extend west of 7th Avenue.  Oaxaca is west of 15th Avenue, more associated with the State Capitol area.

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