GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s been nearly six months since the owners of Grand Rapids restaurant La Huasteca said they were forced out of the building.
“(The landlord) gave us 30 days to move out. We’ve been looking for a place to move in for the last almost six months. So it’s been hard,” restaurant owner Salvador Oliveros said.
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Oliveros and his family are originally from Mexico but moved to Grand Rapids in 1999. After high school, Oliveros became passionate about cooking.
“I started working in some Italian restaurants, American restaurants, and then after that, we had the opportunity to open our own Mexican restaurant (La Huasteca) and that was open for about eight years,” he explained.
The loss of La Huasteca though, only added to the grief Oliveros was already feeling…