{"id":217528,"date":"2026-05-02T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:29:23","slug":"an-enrique-olvera-restaurant-is-closing-in-nyc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217528\/","title":{"rendered":"An Enrique Olvera Restaurant Is Closing in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. 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, Cosme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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\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 Casamata<\/a> is behind Pujol in Mexico City, Damian and Ditroit Taqueria in Los Angeles, and Criollo in Oaxaca, among others.<\/p>\n

The all-day spot, which opened in 2017, was a restaurant where, 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

Former critic Pete Wells gave Atla two stars in the New York Times, calling it<\/a> \u201cone of the least divisive restaurants Manhattan has seen in some time.\u201d\u00a0 Former Eater critic Ryan Sutton was also taken, calling the tacos \u201can act of high-wire balance,\u201d and the $22 chicken cutlet 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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85786,28809,9116,85784,9,56,63,65,64,85785],"class_list":["post-217528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-atla","tag-enrique-olvera","tag-lafayette-street","tag-mexican-restaurant","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-ryan-sutton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217528","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=217528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}