The Londoños employed their signature style of deco to the former Fox & Hound space. (Photos courtesy Stump Photography)
A prolific downtown restaurateur is looking to bring a taste of Jalisco to Midlo.
Carlos Londoño, co-owner of Shockoe-area restaurants Papi’s, La Bodega, Casa Fiesta and Margarita’s, is preparing to open Tequila Sunrise Mexican Kitchen & Cantina at 11581 Robious Road on July 6.
It’s the fifth restaurant for Londoño and his business partner and wife, Adrienne, and their first foray into the counties.
Located near the intersection of Huguenot and Robious roads, Tequila Sunrise’s building had been vacant since sports bar chain Fox & Hound shut down in the early days of the pandemic. The Londoños, who live in the area, leased it earlier this year and began building out Tequila Sunrise, which Carlos said he wants to be seen as “the Disneyland of Mexican restaurants.”
“Anywhere you look, your eyeballs are always busy,” Londoño said of the restaurant’s theme and décor. “When you pull up it’s like you’re pulling up to a hotel in Mexican restaurants. I go all out with the neons and paintings. I want to give everybody something that you just don’t see in Midlothian.”
Carlos Londoño admires Tequila Sunrise’s interior.
The menu at the restaurant will be headlined by birria tacos. However, Londoño said his won’t be made with beef.
“Everyone does beef, but we’re going to do them the traditional way with goat meat. Goat is in the original birria from Jalisco,” Londoño said. “I knew that, but after seeing it on an episode of (CNN program) ‘Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico,’ I said, ‘You know what, we’ve got to put that on the menu.’”
At about 15,000 square feet and with seating for 500 people, Tequila Sunrise is the Londoños’ largest spot yet. It’ll also have an outdoor patio with a full bar of its own.
Tequila Sunrise can seat around 500 and includes an outdoor bar.
The opening of Tequila Sunrise comes less than a year after the Londoños took over operations of the former Bombay Co. restaurant in Rocketts Landing and converted it into Besos Mexican Kitchen & Cantina. Londoño said they recently sold Besos to a chef at the restaurant, Pipo Carillo.
Londoño said he’s now focusing on expanding further into the suburbs.
“After Tequila Sunrise, if my wife doesn’t kill me, I’m looking at another project in the Southside,” he said.
The Londoños employed their signature style of deco to the former Fox & Hound space. (Photos courtesy Stump Photography)
A prolific downtown restaurateur is looking to bring a taste of Jalisco to Midlo.
Carlos Londoño, co-owner of Shockoe-area restaurants Papi’s, La Bodega, Casa Fiesta and Margarita’s, is preparing to open Tequila Sunrise Mexican Kitchen & Cantina at 11581 Robious Road on July 6.
It’s the fifth restaurant for Londoño and his business partner and wife, Adrienne, and their first foray into the counties.
Located near the intersection of Huguenot and Robious roads, Tequila Sunrise’s building had been vacant since sports bar chain Fox & Hound shut down in the early days of the pandemic. The Londoños, who live in the area, leased it earlier this year and began building out Tequila Sunrise, which Carlos said he wants to be seen as “the Disneyland of Mexican restaurants.”
“Anywhere you look, your eyeballs are always busy,” Londoño said of the restaurant’s theme and décor. “When you pull up it’s like you’re pulling up to a hotel in Mexican restaurants. I go all out with the neons and paintings. I want to give everybody something that you just don’t see in Midlothian.”
Carlos Londoño admires Tequila Sunrise’s interior.
The menu at the restaurant will be headlined by birria tacos. However, Londoño said his won’t be made with beef.
“Everyone does beef, but we’re going to do them the traditional way with goat meat. Goat is in the original birria from Jalisco,” Londoño said. “I knew that, but after seeing it on an episode of (CNN program) ‘Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico,’ I said, ‘You know what, we’ve got to put that on the menu.’”
At about 15,000 square feet and with seating for 500 people, Tequila Sunrise is the Londoños’ largest spot yet. It’ll also have an outdoor patio with a full bar of its own.
Tequila Sunrise can seat around 500 and includes an outdoor bar.
The opening of Tequila Sunrise comes less than a year after the Londoños took over operations of the former Bombay Co. restaurant in Rocketts Landing and converted it into Besos Mexican Kitchen & Cantina. Londoño said they recently sold Besos to a chef at the restaurant, Pipo Carillo.
Londoño said he’s now focusing on expanding further into the suburbs.
“After Tequila Sunrise, if my wife doesn’t kill me, I’m looking at another project in the Southside,” he said.
Let’s bring him to Manchester!
Looking forward to this – props for using legit goat for birria!
This article ignored the crab place that occupied this space after Fox & Hound, but not surprised because there was never more than 4 cars in the lot and a general question about if it was even open. I drove by tonight and was happy to see their parking lot was full. Good to have this in the neighborhood and looking forward to trying the goat meat tacos…