Showing posts with label Puebla Mexican Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puebla Mexican Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

NY Village Deli is on the move on 1st Avenue



An EVG reader let us know that the NY Village Deli has closed its doors at 39 First Ave. after 25 years...


[Reader-submitted photo]

However! Per the sign on the door...



... the deli is just relocating two storefronts away to the north...



This storefront between East Second Street and East Third Street was home to Puebla Mexican Food until last March. (Puebla since found a new location in the Essex Street Market.)

Puebla's lease was up, and the new rent was too much for owner Irma Marin to manage. And according to a tipster, the landlord of NY Village Deli raised the rent to $17,000, which was more than the store owners could pay and stay in business.

The new home of NY Village Deli is expected to open on Monday.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Puebla Mexican Food opens today in the Essex Street Market


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

Back on Tuesday, EVG correspondent Stacie Joy reported that Irma Marin had found a new home for her restaurant in the Essex Street Market.

And Stacie says that everything has quickly come together for Marin and her Puebla Mexican Food food stall: She is opening for business today.

Marin hopes to be serving by noon. (Today's Market hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.)

Marin closed her 25-year-old location on First Avenue in March due to a rent increase.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue

You'll now have until March 23 to visit Puebla Mexican Food on 1st Avenue

Puebla Mexican Food closes on 1st Avenue; Villacemita opens on Avenue A

First look at the new Puebla Mexican Food in Essex Street Market

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

First look at the new Puebla Mexican Food in Essex Street Market


Photos and text by Stacie Joy

When we last saw Irma Marin in March, she was shuttering her much-loved, 25-year-old restaurant on First Avenue due to rent/landlord issues.


[EVG photo from March]

As we first reported at the time, Marin was looking into possibly opening a Puebla Mexican Food stall at the Essex Street Market.

Here's some good news for those who love her burritos, tacos and tortas, not to mention her guacamole, mole, and salsa — she’s
back.



Marin and her family were able to secure a new spot at the Essex Street Market ... and we got a chance to see her last week right after she received approval for the space.





Marin says she’ll have a similar menu to her restaurant at 47 First Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street. She'll also be offering delivery via the usual sources — Seamless, Grub Hub, Delivery.com, etc.

The current space, which will have several stools for diners, is a place-holder where she can vend until sometime in 2018, when the new Essex Street Market is slated to open. Marin and her family have been promised a spot at the new location.

As of now, she is several weeks out from opening her new Puebla Mexican Food. She said that she can’t wait to see her old customers again — and to meet some new faces.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue

You'll now have until March 23 to visit Puebla Mexican Food on 1st Avenue

Puebla Mexican Food closes on 1st Avenue; Villacemita opens on Avenue A

About Puebla Mexican Food's abrupt closure, and future at the Essex Street Market

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

About Puebla Mexican Food's abrupt closure, and future at the Essex Street Market


[Photo via Edward Rivera]

By Stacie Joy

I planned to visit Puebla Mexican Food one last time to pick up a meal, take a few photos for posterity, give owner Irma Marin a hug and say thanks for the many years of good food that I’ve had at her restaurant at 47 First Ave.

However, when I arrived outside Puebla last week, I was sad to find that the place had already been shuttered days ahead of its scheduled March 23 closure. I contacted my neighbor, artist Edward Rivera, who is friendly with the Marin/Marmolejo family to ask about what happened. He was kind enough to set up a phone interview with Marin and her son Ricardo “Ricky” Marmolejo, who helped me translate back and forth from English to Spanish.

Why the early closure? They explained that they were in litigation with the landlord. The family had a landlord agreement regarding rent but they were in dispute about a water bill and other additional storefront charges. In court on March 17, the judge sided with the landlord and indicated that the marshal would be coming to evict them.

Marin decided that she did not want her customers to feel uncomfortable, so she closed up immediately. Marin's sister and brother-in-law launched the restaurant near East Third Street in 1990, with Marin taking over in 2000. (Marin's sister and brother-in-law now run Downtown Bakery II at 69 First Ave.)

While Ricky explained that his mother first decided to just close and retire, the family was touched and excited by the enormous community outreach.

Now there are plans in the works for a Puebla Mexican Food stall at the Essex Street Market.

Ricky said that his mother had appointments with community leaders to help with the paperwork.

Marin and her family have long frequented the market, so the idea, when recommended to her, made sense. And, as Marin and her family live nearby on East Second Street, the location will keep them in the area, close to their friends.

I asked Ricky to help translate his mother's words of gratitude to the neighborhood. As Ricky said, she wanted "to thank everyone, all the customers who supported her and loved her food. She wants to reopen to serve the people, and feed them. And that she looks forward to seeing everybody again."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue

You'll now have until March 23 to visit Puebla Mexican Food on 1st Avenue

Puebla Mexican Food closes on 1st Avenue; Villacemita opens on Avenue A

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Puebla Mexican Food closes on 1st Avenue; Villacemita opens on Avenue A



As you know, Puebla Mexican Food is shutting down at 47 First Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street. There were several closing dates… last we heard, owner Irma Marin would keep the 25-year-old quick-serve restaurant open through Monday.

Not sure what happened to those plans, but Puebla has officially closed… back on Wednesday, per one EVG reader. The storefront has mostly been cleaned out.

A rent hike is apparently to blame for this closure.

Meanwhile, at 50 Avenue A between East Third Street and East Fourth Street, Villacemita, serving Puebla Mexican cuisine, opens today at 4.


[Photo from last week]

Here are their menus… breakfast (served until 2 p.m.)…



… and dinner…





They have not yet posted their beer-wine menu.

After today, Villacemita's hours will be 7 a.m. to midnight every day.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Villacemita, serving authentic Puebla Mexican cuisine, announces itself on Avenue A

Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue (29 comments)

Friday, March 13, 2015

You'll now have until March 23 to visit Puebla Mexican Food on 1st Avenue



As we reported back on Monday, Puebla Mexican Food is shutting down at 47 First Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street.

We were originally told that the family run restaurant was closing for good after Sunday. However, several readers (including Marty E.!) told us that owner Irma Marin will keep preparing favorites like chicken-mole burrito through March 23.

With a rent increase, Marin was unable to sign a new lease. When asked how high the new rent is, Marin simply pointed her thumb skyward.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue (29 comments)

Monday, March 9, 2015

Puebla Mexican Food is closing after 25 years on 1st Avenue


[Photo via @jaha7236]

Puebla Mexican Food, which features huge portions at small prices, is closing for good at 47 First Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street...


[EVG photo]

The family run restaurant closes after business this coming Sunday, March 15. March 23. We hear that the lease was up, and the new rent was too much for owner Irma Marin to manage. As for finding another storefront, there's nothing affordable nearby … plus we're told that Marin understandably wants to take a break.


[Image via Yelp]

Back in February 2007, The Villager published a feature on Marin, who "was born into poverty in the town of Santana, in the central Mexican state of Puebla that their restaurant is named after."

She was one of 12 children. In 1979, at age 15, she left her parents and the world she knew behind to cross illegally into the United States. It was a last-minute decision. An older sister had backed out after the family had paid $550 per person to a coyote (an expert — or profiteer — at smuggling people across the border). The money could not be refunded and Marin took her sister’s spot, traveling with another sister, that sister’s husband and his brother.

The coyote led them on a five-hour hike over a Tijuana mountain into Southern California, using his familiarity with the route to avoid authorities. Marin and her small party eventually made it to Los Angeles, where they boarded a cross-country bus to New York City. Her sister and brother-in-law rented a tenement apartment in the East Village, and Marin lived with them. Her childhood and her formal education were over.

Over the next decade, she worked various factory jobs, becoming a legal resident in 1987 through a government amnesty program, per The Villager.

Marin’s sister and brother-in-law launched the restaurant in 1990… with Marin taking over in 2000. (Marin’s sister and brother-in-law run Downtown Bakery II at 69 First Ave.)

Meanwhile, we'll likely have a Puebla-heavy diet the next few days…


[EVG photo]