The owners of La Estrella, the restaurant and tienda mexicana, held a grand opening Friday to celebrate opening their new, larger Lawrence location.
Raul and Adany Perez, originally from Querétaro, Mexico, opened La Estrella about 19 years ago in hopes of bringing Hispanic products to Lawrence’s growing Hispanic community, according to the store’s website.
The store was previously located in a strip at 25th and Iowa streets, but they were forced to move to make way for a new gas station. They had been in a temporary location sharing space with Lucky Seb’s as remodeling was underway on their new building.
They have been able to expand their selection of products in the store and heavily expand their menu because the new location is so much larger, Raul Perez said.
La Estrella’s hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. The new location is at 2323 Ridge Court, just east of the CVS at 23rd and Iowa streets.
If our local journalism matters to you, please help us keep doing this work.
Don’t miss a beat … Click here to sign up for our email newsletters
Latest Lawrence news:
Douglas County/Contributed photo
In KU exhibit, Kansas quilt artists piece together story of racial violence from Emmett Till to today
A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps connect the 1955 killing to contemporary violence against Black people.
Lawrence Historic Resources Commission defers decision on markers memorializing Tiger Dowdell, Nick Rice
Nearly four years after the conversation began to memorialize two teenagers killed by Lawrence police in 1970, the Historic Resources Commission on Thursday deferred a decision on the design and language of markers that would be placed near the scenes of the killings.
