A spot that has become familiar for Bremerton restaurants has a new look in 2024, with cheery service, warm ambience, energetic beats, margaritas on most tables and pleasing Mexican dishes evident upon the first step inside. Carlos De Luna, owner of Mezcalitos Mexican Restaurant, weaves in and out of the bustling kitchen, his head disappearing between decorative statues of agave plants as he check with customers, clean plates and even takes out a trash bag as a Bad Bunny song rocks overhead, tending to the restaurant’s second location, now open in downtown Bremerton.
It’s been a month since De Luna expanded Mezcalitos from the initial spot along Highway 305 at Hostmark Street in Poulsbo, and business is already thriving.
Bremerton’s Mezcalitos finds itself in a high traffic area, situated near the Washington State Ferry terminal in a building that was transformed from a Westsound Bank branch years ago to a restaurant location that has housed the Bremerton Bar and Grill and then El Balcon, a Mexican and El Salvadorean restaurant that has since returned to a former site on downtown’s Pacific Avenue.