{"id":356170,"date":"2026-06-30T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356170\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:56:21","slug":"a-fort-worth-stockyards-favorite-restaurant-is-shutting-down-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356170\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth Stockyards favorite restaurant is shutting down Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The La Playa Maya<\/a> Stockyards restaurant on North Main Street, the first prominent Fort Worth restaurant to feature coastal seafood from Mexico, will close Sunday, according to workers.<\/p>\n

Three other La Playa Maya locations remain open in south and west Fort Worth and in suburban Hudson Oaks.<\/p>\n

The North Main location is located in a majestic old north side landmark<\/a>, a two-story red-orange brick building built in 1913 as a city police substation not long after Fort Worth annexed the former separate city of North Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

The building later also housed the Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters and license bureau, other agencies and, after 1940, the North Side Lions Club.<\/p>\n

The restaurants are owned by the family of late founder Lupe Ayala,<\/a> a native of Pesqueria near Monterrey, Mexico.<\/p>\n

The first La Playa opened in 1988 as a tiny, beach-style Mexican seafood restaurant nearby on West Central Avenue. It was one of the first Fort Worth restaurants to serve ceviche, shrimp coctel and fish tacos.<\/p>\n

In 1994, the family opened La Playa Maya on Hemphill Street.<\/p>\n

The northside restaurant moved from Central to the current North Main Street building in 1998.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A cheese chile relleno dinner at La Playa Maya, as seen June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n

The move to North Main Street brought more Stockyards visitors and cowboys headed to Billy Bob\u2019s Texas or the coliseum rodeos.<\/p>\n

Instead of seafood, they ordered beef fajitas, brisket tacos and fajita enchiladas, and those became La Playa Maya favorites.<\/p>\n

The restaurants are also rated highly for their traditional chile relleno and for the distinctive fish or shrimp tacos with chipotle sauce and mango pico de gallo.<\/p>\n

The restaurant is the second within a month to close near the busy 1500 block of North Main Street. Restaurante Cabrito Nuevo Le\u00f3n closed a block away on Ellis Avenue when the founding Gonzalez family retired.<\/p>\n

\"Pollo<\/p>\n

Pollo con champi\u00f1ones (chicken with sauteed mushrooms and poblanos) at La Playa Maya in Ridglea.<\/p>\n

\"Chicken<\/p>\n

Chicken nachos at La Playa Maya in Ridglea.<\/p>\n

\"Carne<\/p>\n

Carne asada with shrimp, shrimp cocktail and ceviche at La Playa Maya in Ridglea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The La Playa Maya Stockyards restaurant on North Main Street, the first prominent Fort Worth restaurant to feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,126659,126658,100156,22169],"class_list":["post-356170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-la-playa-maya","tag-north-main","tag-north-main-street","tag-seafood-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356170","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=356170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}