Mattas.com

Just wanted everyone to know that I published our NEW Matta's website today. Go take a look around, there's lots to read...family history, history of Matta's food, menus, customer stories on why they love Matta's and see old photos too!
I will still be working on the website adding info & photos so you will see some changes. Keep checking back. If you come across a link that does not work, please let me know by emailing this blog.
Hope you all enjoy & have a great weekend!

Plastered

Hi everyone! There's a lot of construction debris flying around at Matta's Grill & Cantina. Here are the photos to prove it!



This is the north side of the dining room with windows at every booth. The arches will be covered in smooth plaster.


















This is a view of our curb side pick-up area. It has it's own entrance on the south side of the building, so there's no more going up to the front of the restaurant to pick up your order. When we are up and running, the phone# for take out is: (480)964-TOGO
(Write that down!)







This is a view from our kitchen. To the left is a stack of walls that make up the huge fridge with a freezer inside. To the right is where the servers pick up your orders. Beyond that is the stairway to go up to our office.










All those wall pieces stacked up...well they're all put together now.


You think a 10 foot high refrigerator is big enough?










This is our waiting area. We had our carved wood benches and chairs restored that will once again be used in the Matta's waiting area.
There will be one beautiful ceiling in this area, so be sure to look up!










This is part of the dining room. Styrofoam and chicken wire wrapping the arches and some of the walls to prepare for plaster.














This is the other side of the dining room. To the right, the booths will be covered with a tiled roof and wood corbels. Straight ahead under where the Mariachi's will be a beautiful carved wall fountain.











And finally the smooth plaster that will resemble the old Matta's on Main Street. The guys are doing a superb job! The man in the photo working on the plaster said he had grown up eating at Matta's and can't wait till we open.





We hope you all enjoy the pictures!

New pictures

Here's the latest photos of our construction zone.

1.The dining room just insulated. 2. Booths that just had drywall.

3.A drywall mess in the dining room. 4.Kitchen wall

5.Bar area 6.Bar wall getting ready for stained glass.

Hope you all are getting excited! We sure are!!!

"When are you going to open?"

I know it's been a while, but there's lots going on behind the scenes here and it's more time consuming than anyone realizes. If you are following us on twitter then you know that we passed our inspections for electrical, framing and plumbing. And we did our walk through today with TAP electric, they have done an awesome job! So next week the drywall should be going up (this is where you are supposed to cheer). So...that means it's getting closer and closer, but still we have no dates set yet. That seems to be the biggest question everyone has, "When are you going to open?" As soon as we know, you'll know.
Some of the staff members from Main Street are anxious to come back and we will be glad to have them!
Also, had another meeting today with Tanya from Burdette (so many details), just wait till you all see the amazing furniture and cabinetry this fine company is making for us! They are building the chairs, benches, tables, all the cabinets at the server stations and the most beautiful bar!
I also have to brag about Senor Rio tequila. We met with Debbie & Jon the owners, and we couldn't be happier with having not only a terrific tasting tequila, but them, their story and the fact that they are a local business is a great thing.

Detail, details, details

We are really into the details now, there is way more to building a restaurant than people realize. Whew! Sorry for the delay between posting here, the holidays slowed things down for a couple weeks, so there wasn't much to show. Although having Christmas fresh in my mind helped me realize that we needed lots of extra outlets in places for next years Christmas lights. Got to think ahead! Also, putting lots of hours in working on the new menu, it's kind of tough sometimes because it makes me hungry typing the descriptions.

It can be hard to get a visual in your head from looking at the construction photos, so below is a small picture of both levels of the floor plan.

lower level

upper level

kitchen- looks like an alien ship is landing! / kitchen stairs going up to our office

entrance - dome ceiling / dining side looking at entrance

dining room stairs / booth arches

kitchen hoods, pretty huge! / installing the ceiling...way too much detail!

electrical panels / you think we have enough light switches here?

We're being framed!

Busy, busy, busy! All the guys are working hard and things are looking good. The framers have just about finished their job, so if you have good imagination you can visualize what it might look like from the photos below.

Mike from TAP & Sons Electric (480-507-2900) is installing all of our electrical needs. And Steve from Maricopa AC (480-941-3945) is making sure that we will keep cool in those hot summer months! Lets not forget Ron from Allen Co. Construction (480-2892722) who is making sure that all the jobs are done perfectly. Thanks to all the guys, you're doing a terrific job!!

Our first construction photos

It was loud and dirty but who cares! Our NEW Matta's is under construction!