Gourmet Shop to Open on the South Side PV Mirror
go to original June 29, 2012

Here's news to make everyone on the South Side REALLY happy – especially fans of the now apparently defunct Gutierrez Rizo supermarket...in its heyday.

Puerto Vallarta will have a real, honest-to-goodness Gourmet Shop by mid-July, if all goes according to plan.

Owners Blanca Luna Hernandez and Gerardo Robles Lomeli have an export company in San Diego, California, and an import agency in Guadalajara. The Casa del Gourmet will be their first retail venture. (Theirs is also the company that used to provide Rizo's with most of their imported items initially.)

The new shop will open at 130 Ignacio L. Vallarta, Local 4. If the address seems familiar, it is because it will occupy the space next to Mailboxes, etc. in Plaza Molino, just south of the bridge, next to Molino de Agua.

There are also plans to set up tables and chairs on the outdoor terrace, like La Ciabatta used to have before it closed.

The concept of the Casa del Gourmet will be based on gourmet groceries – not fresh foods - that include over 3000 specialty products, jars, cans, spices, from all over the world, Oriental, Hindu, Arabic, American, Canadian and European, etc.

Also, something that is very important to the local expat community: although Blanca is not fluent in English, Gerardo is perfectly bilingual.