Hispanic Heritage Month in 2025 is all about honoring the past and inspiring the future. Sisters in Fort Worth do that every day at the restaurant dedicated to their mom.
“She’s always in the kitchen cooking for us, always food on the table. I don’t know how she did it. Nine kids in the family. It’s not easy in Mexico,” said Maria de Lourdes “LuLu” Lopez.
Step inside La Casa de Lina in the Wedgwood area on the southwest side of the city, and you feel like you’re in a Mexican hometown cafe. Home is exactly what the daughters of Leolina Garcia Perez had in mind when they opened the restaurant and named it after their mom…