{"id":732448,"date":"2010-05-24T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:25:09","slug":"lupe-taqueria-closes-beleza-will-not-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/732448","title":{"rendered":"Lupe Taqueria closes; Beleza will not reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3314\" title=\"hotplate0611\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/hotplate0611-300x137.jpg?resize=300%2C137\" alt=\"hotplate0611\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Riccardo Ullio<\/strong> (above) just called\u00a0 to tell me that he closed <strong>Lupe Taqueria<\/strong> &#8212; his Midtown Mexican restaurant &#8212; over the weekend. <strong>Beleza<\/strong>, his snacky cocktail bar next door that has been closed for the past three months, will not reopen as previously announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though we were breaking even at Lupe, we could not get the bank to work something out on the loan,&#8221; Ullio said. Both properties will go into foreclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Ullio also owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sottosottorestaurant.com\"><strong>Sotto Sotto<\/strong> and <strong>Fritti<\/strong><\/a> in Inman Park.<\/p>\n<p>While I never made it to Lupe, I always enjoyed the tropical cocktails and the healthy snackums at Beleza.<\/p>\n<p>Will you miss these restaurants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Ullio (above) just called\u00a0 to tell me that he closed Lupe Taqueria &#8212; his Midtown Mexican restaurant &#8212; over the weekend. Beleza, his snacky cocktail bar next door that has been closed for the past three months, will not reopen as previously announced. &#8220;Even though we were breaking even at Lupe, we could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34xG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}