Iconic Restaurant Celebrates 60 Years

John Cortino was in the construction business in the Rio Grande Valley of the 1960s when he got home from work one day and made an announcement to his wife Mary. “We’re going to build a restaurant next door,” he said. It was 1966 and the Cortinos were living on Highway 83 in Mercedes with the Weslaco of that era miles away. The highway was the Rio Grande Valley’s regional… Read More The post…