{"id":51072,"date":"2025-11-24T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51072\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:57:19","slug":"pelhams-rob-gorsline-takes-over-cantina-lobos-from-clay-bushong-first-order-of-business-fresh-margarita-ingredients-and-nachos-grande-pelham-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51072\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelham\u2019s Rob Gorsline takes over Cantina Lobos from Clay Bushong; first order of business\u2013fresh margarita ingredients and nachos grande \u2013 Pelham Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pelham's<\/a> <\/p>\n

Cantina Lobos, a staple of the Pelham\u2019s restaurant scene for almost a decade, has a new owner, Rob Gorsline.<\/p>\n

Gorsline, former owner of Tequila Sunrise in Larchmont, is no carpetbagger. He\u2019s a PMHS grad and village resident who\u2019s committed to keeping Cantina Lobos what it is, a Mexican restaurant, while adding some strategic upgrades here and there.<\/p>\n

Gorsline graduated from PMHS in 2001 and earned a degree in business management in 2005 at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.\u00a0 Wanting to scratch an entrepreneurial itch, Gorsline and sister and brother-in-law bought Tequila Sunrise. He eventually bought them out, but after 20 years, he was ready to move on. \u201cAfter COVID, the whole dynamic changed,\u201d Gorsline said. \u201cIt was a very large restaurant\u2013200 seats\u2013and the overhead just got to be too much. It started to feel like it wasn\u2019t worth it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Clayton Bushong, who Gorslin had known from the neighborhood, mentioned that he was thinking of selling Cantina Lobos, the restaurant he launched in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first I said no because I still had Tequila Sunrise and didn\u2019t want a second place,\u201d Gorsline said. \u201cBut once I knew I was moving on from there, I thought about it more. I talked it over with my wife. She was super supportive and we decided to go for it.\u201d After months of negotiating prices, completing paperwork, and acquiring proper permits, the deal closed on November 1.<\/p>\n

While Gorsline is keeping the intimate feel of Cantina Lobos and maintain its Mexican fare, he is looking to make some improvements.\u00a0 He has upgraded the margaritas, using fresh ingredients and fruit in place of premixes.\u00a0 He is looking to bring nachos, a fan-favorite at Tequila Sunrise, to Cantina Lobos, as well as \u201cquesados,\u201d a variation of quesadillas. \u201cHere we can focus on freshness. It\u2019s exciting to finally do things I couldn\u2019t do in a huge restaurant,\u201d Gorsline said.<\/p>\n

After the new year, Gorsline is looking to make renovations- adding more chairs and tables and rearranging the restaurant layout. Additionally, he wants to add live music, movies, and more in the park across from Cantina for the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle things like that help make Pelham more of a destination. New restaurants are opening too,\u201d Gorsline said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see more variety- Pelham hasn\u2019t really had that compared to places like Larchmont. The more we bring people into town, the more everyone benefits- restaurants, shops, the movie theater, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of managing Cantina Lobos, Gorsline enjoys life in Pelham. After living in Manhattan for 13 years, he moved back to Pelham with his wife in 2014. He has two daughters, a four-year-old and an eight-year-old at Colonial. In his free time, he enjoys coaching their Pelham Rec soccer teams and going to concerts and Yankees games. He invites everyone in Pelham to stop by and enjoy the new Cantina Lobos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cantina Lobos, a staple of the Pelham\u2019s restaurant scene for almost a decade, has a new owner, Rob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-51072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51072","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=51072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}