{"id":363910,"date":"2026-08-06T01:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:28:05","slug":"after-eight-months-red-mesa-cantina-on-central-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363910\/","title":{"rendered":"After eight months, Red Mesa Cantina on Central will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 5, 2026 &#8211; Veytia Ventures LLC, which owns several Mexican restaurants in St. Petersburg, announced on social media Wednesday that Red Mesa Cantina West, at 6001 Central Ave., will close Sunday, Aug. 16. &#8220;We gave it everything we had,&#8221; the owners wrote, &#8220;but unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t enough.&#8221; Red Mesa Cantina West opened in October, 2025. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in June, and closed the long-lived Red Mesa Cantina at 128 3rd Street S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 5, 2026 &#8211; Veytia Ventures LLC, which owns several Mexican restaurants in St. Petersburg, announced on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-363910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}