{"id":215531,"date":"2026-04-30T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:38:11","slug":"an-enrique-olvera-restaurant-is-closing-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215531\/","title":{"rendered":"An Enrique Olvera Restaurant Is Closing in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatatla.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atla<\/a>, chef Enrique Olvera\u2019s Noho Mexican restaurant, will close on Sunday, May 31, after nearly a decade at 372 Lafayette Street, at Great Jones Street. <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2017\/4\/3\/15160544\/atla-first-look-enrique-olvera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atla<\/a> was the restaurant that made Olvera\u2019s cooking available to a broader audience \u2014 not cheap, exactly, but considerably less than his other acclaimed New York restaurant, <a href=\"https:\/\/mercerhotel.com\/cosme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cosme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Olvera and his Casamata hospitality group will turn the space into a new restaurant opening this fall. Details are forthcoming, according to a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had fun on this corner for nearly a decade,\u201d says Olvera through a spokesperson, \u201cand have been lucky enough to watch the neighborhood grow and evolve with us. We\u2019re not going anywhere, but it\u2019s time for our next chapter.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/casamata.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casamata<\/a> is behind Pujol in Mexico City, Damian and Ditroit Taqueria in Los Angeles, and Criollo in Oaxaca, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The all-day spot, which opened in 2017, was a restaurant where, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2017\/3\/31\/15123216\/atla-nyc-opening-noho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Olvera said<\/a>, people could \u201cjust call it home.\u201d With his then-right-hand chef at the helm, Daniela Soto-Innes, Atla became a neighborhood fixture where diners were drawn to its tortillas, salsas, aguachiles, and lobster burrito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Former critic Pete Wells gave Atla two stars in the New York Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/25\/dining\/atla-review-mexican-restaurant-noho.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling it<\/a> \u201cone of the least divisive restaurants Manhattan has seen in some time.\u201d Former Eater critic Ryan Sutton was also taken, calling the tacos \u201can act of high-wire balance,\u201d and the $22 chicken cutlet <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2018\/3\/30\/17178062\/atla-tacos-enrique-olvera-soto-innes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a flat-out buy<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve probably been back to Atla more than any other restaurant I\u2019ve reviewed in the past year,\u201d Sutton wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Through the end of May, Atla will run specials of greatest hits, including the aguachile negro and lobster burrito, alongside the regular menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atla, chef Enrique Olvera\u2019s Noho Mexican restaurant, will close on Sunday, May 31, after nearly a decade at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,6461],"class_list":["post-215531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-restaurant-closings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}