A popular Weslaco restaurant is closed until further notice after it was damaged in a fire.

Customers said they’ve been coming to the Sevilla Café at 241 S. Texas Boulevard for as long as they can remember. They said the café has served generations of families, and they hope doors will reopen sooner rather than later.

“You go in there, and it’s like going into grandma's kitchen. I’ve been coming here for many years,” Mercedes resident Antonio Longoria said.

Longoria said he was shocked when he heard the café would be closed after a fire broke out there.

READ MORE: Sevilla Café in downtown Weslaco closed after building catches fire

“You don’t expect that to happen, and you don’t want that to happen to anybody,” Longoria said.

The Weslaco Fire Department said the building was empty w

See Full Page