{"id":151901,"date":"2026-02-05T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:07:14","slug":"austin-staple-little-mexico-to-close-after-nearly-40-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151901\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin staple Little Mexico to close after nearly 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After almost 40 years of business in Austin, a neighborhood staple will close its doors. Little Mexico has announced it will cease operations on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>According to the restaurant\u2019s Facebook post, the business has been the life\u2019s work of owner Rosa Martinez, who will be retiring.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has been in its location on South 1st Street for the past 34 years after having moved from a different location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Little Mexico is one of a handful of Mexican food-related businesses that were once a crucial part of the neighborhood to close recently. La Mexicana Bakery closed in 2022, and El Mercado closed in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/entertainment\/dining\/article\/austin-restaurants-little-mexico-closing-21331304.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>, Martinez has chosen not to sell the land on which Little Mexico sits, appraised at approximately $3 million. There will be a new tenant on the property, though the function of that business is as yet undisclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After almost 40 years of business in Austin, a neighborhood staple will close its doors.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3564,132,134,133,5604,910,3565,4621,49,30921,1062,223,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-151901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-app-community","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-community-news","15":"tag-culture","16":"tag-food","17":"tag-food-and-dining","18":"tag-mike-dalonzo","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}