Bars

Working-Class Mission Bar El Mexicano Getting Set to Gentrify

El Mexicano
El Mexicano Photo: Go Time

Over the liquor licenses today Grub Street discovers that Latino working man’s watering hole El Mexicano at 3088 24th Street (between Lucky and Treat) is getting some new owners and will likely close for a hipster makeover in the coming months. We don’t know much about new owners Christopher Conway, Shane Dalton, and Joseph Kaplan, and there’s still no new business name attached to the license, but we’re venturing to guess this won’t be quite like the bare-bones dive that is when they’re through. File under: Developing.

Working-Class Mission Bar El Mexicano Getting Set to Gentrify