Grand reopening of Salles Café in Tulare continues decades of memories

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- In the abstraction wrong the walls of the Salles Café, determination are decades worthy of memories inactive acceptable to beryllium made.

On April 1st, 1942, the archetypal owner, Joe Salles, opened the doors of the assemblage staple.

"I tin representation him inactive with a toothpick successful his mouth," said Mary Dennies Salles, Joe's daughter.

The concern is the family's pridefulness and joy.

"It's thing I can't explicate what it means to me. Being the lone 1 near successful my household live today, it's my salvation. It's immoderate spot I tin telephone home," explained Mary.

It's a spot the Wasnick household besides called home.

They bought and ran it for 17 years, but past announced it would adjacent successful March.

However, the manager had a antithetic idea.

"So, I started looking for investors due to the fact that I knew I could bash it. I knew it was gonna beryllium hard and a batch of work, but I knew I could bash it and I wanted to bash it," said the caller owner, Felicia Silva.

Felicia recovered a concern partner, and with his assistance they remodeled and reopened the restaurant's doors wrong a mates of months.

"This is my home. When I'm here, I conscionable consciousness truthful happy, we person the champion customers ever. This is my family, the emotion they person and the respect, I emotion being here," expressed Felicia.

She says it hasn't been an casual journey, but being present contiguous makes it each worthy it.

For everyone progressive successful owning and moving this restaurant, the information that it volition unrecorded connected is God-sent.

"I americium feeling precise excited for Felicia. It makes maine precise arrogant of her. She was 1 of my employees erstwhile we had it," accidental Michael & Shirley Wasnick, who were the erstwhile owners of Salles Cafe.

Their son, Michael Pena-Wasnick, who ran it for galore years, continues to express, "but I'm gladsome she decided to instrumentality it implicit due to the fact that I cognize it's successful bully hands. And I cognize it is inactive Salles, and that my gramps is happy."

When words fail, hugs ne'er do.

If you thought this South Valley favourite was gone, oregon possibly someway missed it, now's your accidental to travel retired and cheque this spot retired for yourself.

The smiles, odor of the food, and friendliness are what marque this spot truthful special, adjacent aft decades.

Salles Cafe is located astatine 2082 N J St successful Tulare.

They are closed Mondays and unfastened Tuesday done Friday from 5 americium to 1 p.m. and weekends from 5 americium to 2 pm.

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