“We’re positively going to overlook you guys, it was a extremely arduous choice for our household,” stated El Gallo De Oro Restaurante co-proprietor Julissa Salgado, as she shared the information of its imminent closure on Facebook Live final week.
The family-owned and operated Cuban restaurant, positioned at 4007 Fiesta Plaza, has been a staple in West Tampa for many years, identified for its thick sandwiches and stacked dinner platters.
“Thanks,” she added. “We have been right here since 1987. I am so pleased with my mother and father for all the things they did. So, that is why I am not scared to do one thing totally different. We’re excited to deliver West Tampa outdoors of West Tampa.”
Salgado’s livestream was met with lots of of consumers expressing their dismay within the feedback.
The restaurant’s final day open was Friday, March 18. Inventive Loafing Tampa Bay reached out to El Gallo by way of telephone to collect extra particulars about its closure, however was sadly met with no response. The restaurant’s website can’t be reached both.
Though Salgado states that the brand new El Gallo location hasn’t been confirmed but, she mentions areas like Jacksonville and Crystal River as attainable properties for her new restaurant, and alludes that will probably be a number of hours north of Tampa.
Salgado and her husband Chris bought El Gallo from her mother and father, the unique homeowners, in 2012 as acknowledged by WFLA.
With El Gallo’s authentic location closed, West Tampa Sandwich Store is at the moment holding down the Cuban meals scene within the neighborhood.
For the newest info on El Gallo De Oro’s upcoming location, sustain with its Fb at @ElGalloTampa, the place you’ll almost definitely be up to date by way of livestream.
