A few words from MaryLou...

"WOW! Gretchen, what a wonderful slide show video you have produced,including our song,"Mucho Corozon".
I Mary Lou Matta, the Matriarch, tip my sombrero to you and Peter for all the work and promotion you have undertaking. I do declare,you and Peter are the epitome of success and Mattas Grill and Cantina will be a great place to go visit and enjoy great food and nice and friendly atmosphere when it opens. Congratulations and many thanks to all groundbreaking participants, our special Dignitaries, family members, friends, customers, employees and new prospective customers. Thank you all for your presence and support.
Lets not forget the Matta Teens, who were so gracious passing out Mattas T-shirts with Mattas Logo and Mattas hot sauce to everyone. What a wonderful gesture. I am looking forward to the Grand Opening!"

Groundbreaking Video

A big thank you to all of our friends for joining us at the much awaited groundbreaking ceremony of Matta’s Grill & Cantina!

Below is a list of family, employees, friends and customers that celebrated with us. Some customers had been eating at Matta's 50 years, some 30 years, some their whole lives and some 2 years! Employees that were there ranged from 27 to 5 years working at Matta's...and we truly care about and appreciate all of them!

Our thanks to: MaryLou Matta-Garza, David & Carlotta Matta, Stan Sanchez, Marty Derito, Mayor Scott Smith, Kyle Jones, Bill Jabjiniak, Sylvia & Harry Saffell, Jeremy, Ted, HC, Jeff, Andrew, Dominic, Joseph, Sandy, Chris, Kim, Shelby, Elliot, Todd, Emma, Sean, Steve, Beth, Joe, Amy, Miranda, Jennifer, Michael, Thom, Johnny, Helen, Milena, Carol, Reuben & Ofelia Lopez & Family, Monique, Marin, Raquel & Quirino, Sandra, Josie, Michelle, Linda, Debbie & Mike, Vicki, Sally Harrison, Leigh White, Frank & Marge Tau, Helen & Lee Degroff, Gloria & Don Traicoff, Edward & Larry Schwab, Doreane and Geiselhart, Rita Faulstick, Irma and Les Wagoner Sr.,Tonya Collins, Judd Borrmann, Allen,Connie & Darin Chisholm, JoAnn and Les Wagner Jr., Patsy Johnson, Cynthia Brummett, Jan and Jonathan Johnson, Kathy McDonald, Gary Gaines, Jessica Wilson, Sue & Alex Brown, Heather Gearns, Patsy Johnson, Ruth & Guy Buckley, Ken & Kathy White, Stephanie Wright, TJ, Jean & Bob Szeman and our Mariachis: Mario & Heriberto.

Matta's on channel 5 news

Wanted to share the news clip from channel 5 KPHO of Matta's Groundbreaking.

We have lots of people to thank for supporting us and I will do that as soon as I get the photos sorted through so you can see what a great time it was!

Matta's Article

We are so excited about our groundbreaking ceremony this tuesday, October 13th at 9am, that we decided to give the first 100 people that show up something special to remember the occasion. Our supply is limited, so when we run out then we're out. So show up at Mesa Riverview at 9am! If you're not sure where we are, we are on the corner across from Toby Keith's place.

Also, I wanted to give everyone the link to an article about the new Matta's on the City of Mesa Website.
Click here to read it

Special event

Great news everyone, very soon we will be having our GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY and we would love for you to join us!

The date is set for Tuesday, October 13th at 9am. I will post more details here as I get them.

Busy, busy, busy

There are so many details involved in planning a restaurant, but we are doing it all! Meeting after meeting, details gone over and over, all to make sure everything is done just right. The floor plans are almost out of engineering and will be in the hands of the city next. In the meantime we are working closely with the fine people at Burdette's to create our new tables, chairs, benches and cabinets. They will also refurbish some of the original Matta's wood pieces that we will be using. Brought home a sample chair today...so awesome!

There have been many people asking about when they can buy hot sauce and salsa online...not ready yet, we are working with a bottling company and I am still working on the new website.

We are also working on a fun new Matta's t-shirt that should turn a few heads.

Here's a picture of Peter, Jeremy (Allen Co.) and Gary (Burdette Cabinets) at a recent meeting. (sorry for the poor quality photo, I took it with my phone)

A little info

Hi everyone! Sorry we have not posted any information lately, but things were moving like a snail for a while and there was really no news to tell.

Before I continue, let my introduce ourselves. We are Peter and Gretchen Matta. MaryLou and Manuel Matta (founders of Matta's Restaurant) are Peter's grandparents. If any of you know Peter then you know he was running the Main street location for many years, but mostly loved working in the kitchen. So if you don't recognize his face when we open it's because he was either in the office being the mastermind or in the kitchen cooking your dinner.

Now on to business. We have a great design for the new restaurant and think everyone will be very pleased! Our architect, Ted, has worked hard to put our ideas on paper. Not to mention some of his own great ideas!(thanks also to Jeremy!) If anyone out there is thinking of building a home or business I highly recommend Allen Homes for architecture and construction.

Our new Matta's will be 5000 square feet, including the kitchen. We will be using some of the old fixtures from the original Matta's. Our wishes are to keep the same Spanish /Mediterranean atmosphere. We will be a full service restaurant with a Cantina, an outside patio and a separate take out area. Things are running full steam ahead now!