When patrons of Avila’s El Ranchito sit down to eat, they’re handed a menu bearing a picture of Margarita “Mamá” Avila. The matriarch of the Mexican food restaurant group is standing by stacks of ...
In 1975, 22-year-old Sergio Avila, born in Guanajuato, Mexico, traded scales for salsa, transforming a Newport Peninsula fish market into Avila’s El Ranchito, the first location of his parents’ ...
When Sergio Avila, owner of Avila’s El Ranchito in Newport Beach, first walked by the property at 28th Street and Newport Boulevard in 1975, he could sense the potential for a restaurant. “At 22 years ...