Carlos & Pepe’s, the revered Mexican cantina, has permanently closed after 45 years on Fort Lauderdale’s 17th Street Causeway. The upscale restaurant, under new ownership since June 2023, made no ...

Every wall is painted gold and each street taco tastes like the mythical El Dorado at Pepe’s Grill, where the lunch and dinner dishes deserve at least four gold stars any day of the week. My ...

Chef Carlos Pugliese had no interest in cooking another batch of ranchero sauce, not after 24 years of blissful retirement, mostly on the fairways of Boca Dunes Golf and Country Club. But when he ...

In a city that loves rags-to-riches stories, few can match the saga of Pepe Aguilar and his family. But only some Angelenos know about it. His father, Antonio, slept on benches in Placita Olvera when ...

Roberto Martinez is achingly close to retirement after 44 years in the kitchen at Carlos & Pepe’s in Fort Lauderdale, emphasis on the “ache.” But of course, there’s always something. “Hold on a second ...

Who owns Pepe's Cantina? Entrepreneurs Frank Chavez and Stuart Kirban opened the first location of Pepe’s Cantina in 2015 in Winter Park. Since then, more locations opened in Clermont, DeBary, Oviedo ...

At the boyish age of 16, Pedro Rojas knew, without a doubt, what he wanted to do with his life. He was going to open a restaurant. One aromatic plate of tacos at time, Pedro dreamed of offering people ...

21-year-old Jazline Gomez opened her restaurant at 19 years old while studying full-time at Wright State University. A year later, the pandemic hit, forcing Gomez to pivot and keep her business afloat ...

When brothers Jose Mata and Ezequiel Mata were teens growing up in Marion, they worked at a Mexican restaurant owned by their mother and her family. They started out washing dishes, eventually ...

This garlic shrimp dish is on the “secret menu” at Pepe’s Bosque in D’Iberville. Julian Brunt Special to the Sun Herald If you haven’t been to Pepe’s Bosque Mexican restaurant in D’Iberville is a ...

Pepe's Cantina opens its first Seminole County restaurant along Alafaya Trail near UCF on Friday, July 21st 2023. (Katrina Scales, Copyright 2023 by WKMG ClickOrlando ...