After 13 years running Lupita’s Mexican Restaurant with his family, Ernesto Becerra is getting ready to say goodbye to the one that’s formed within the eatery’s walls.
Lupita’s, 1720 W. Mulberry St., will close Feb. 24, Ernesto said. After more than a decade, the decision was a bittersweet one for Ernesto and his family.
“I’m going to miss the relationships I have with my customers,” he said while sitting at a small table in the restaurant’s cozy dining room overlooking City Park late last week.
Ernesto and Martina Becerra opened Lupita’s in 2010, following Martina’s longtime dream of having her own restaurant. They named it after Martina’s mother and have run it as a family with daughters Vanessa and Nicole Becerra and son-in-law Jesus Varela.
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They later opened a Lupita’s in Greeley around 2014 and a Berthoud restaurant in 2020. The Greeley restaurant closed in 2016 and the Berthoud Lupita’s shuttered later in 2020 due to effects of the pandemic, Vanessa said.