SAL'S MEXICAN RESTAURANT

Food and Beverage > Catering

The Valley’s Family Tradition Since 1942

THE LEGEND BEHIND SAL SALAZAR and his Mexican restaurant began on Sal’s birth date, Mexican Independence Day, September 16, 1925. Seventeen years later, in the summer of 1942, Sal, a farm worker who loved good food and made loyal friends, was picking peaches for 35 cents an hour. Acting on an impulse, Sal climbed down from his ladder on that hot day, threw his basket on the ground and vowed, “I have picked my Last Elberta.” Sal Salazar wanted to sell tacos and other Mexican food to the local farm workers. He started by building a shed from some scrap wood. The wood came from an old man who had planned to use it for a chicken coop, but got too old to finish it. Sal had offered the old man $25 — a lot back then considering he was a peach picker up until then. He decided that when he ran out of wood, that’s how big the place would be. He began with the help of his mom and dad (Karl and Lorraine’s Grandparents), Jose Maria and Antonia. The venture seemed to make everyone happy.

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