Popular Mexican Restaurant Returns To Hoover

HOOVER, AL - After a 10-year absence, a popular Mexican restaurant is returning to Hoover. Guadalajara Grill, which had been located in The Centre at Riverchase shopping center for 16 years, is expected to open this week in a new location on an outparcel at the Riverchase Galleria.

According to a report by the Hoover Sun, owner Carlos Medina closed Guadalajara Grill in 2008 with the intention of relocating to the former Longhorn Steakhouse building that is now part of the Tameron Hyundai car dealership.

Medina discovered a serious plumbing problem at the Longhorn building that would have cost him $160,000 to correct, so he backed out of that site, he told the Sun. Medina tried to come back to The Centre at Riverchase, but the manager of that shopping center refused.

Medina, who lives in Pelham, said he’s excited to reopen Guadalajara Grill in Hoover and even has one of the same cooks who was at the former location — Jacobo Cardoza. He’s keeping the menu much the same as before.

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