Tequila's Restaurant
Restaurant in Berkeley, CA
He went to school with the kids of agave farmers and tequila producers. David met his wife, Annette, while working as a waiter in Cancun. He followed her home to Philadelphia and got a job at the only Mexican restaurant in town (El Metate) A year later, he bought out the owner and renamed it Tequilas. Philadelphia did not have the concepts we see today, only the Tex-Mex. There was not much knowledge of Mexican food. But I was fortunate. What we proposed to them no one else was providing. Back then we developed the client. We learned from each other. David Suro-Piera.
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Tequila's Restaurant
read moreWe are located in a historic building at 1602 Locust St, in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. It was once the house of William Duane, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, under President Andrew Jackson. History buffs will know him for having been dismissed during the bank wars. Tequilas Restaurant was established in 1986, at 1511 Locust Street by owners David and Annette Suro. David Suro, a native of Guadalajara, grew up near agave fields in the state of Jalisco. He went to school with the children of agave farmers and tequila producers.