The Mexican restaurant in Tempe will shut its doors at the end of this month, making way for a new Macayo's establishment set to open in its place.
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Longtime Valley restaurant chain Macayo's Mexican Cuisine is shuffling locations in Tempe, with one spot closing and another set to open a few weeks later.
The Tempe Macayo's, situated on Scottsdale Road just south of Loop 202, is set to close its doors on January 31.
A new establishment is set to open in mid-February at the Cornerstone shopping center, located on Rural Road just north of University Drive.
Macayo's story began in 1946, and over the decades, the concept expanded to become a chain with restaurants spread throughout the Valley. The Mexican restaurant has been a staple of Tempe for years, albeit in different locations. Macayo's Depot Cantina inhabited the historic train depot near Ash Avenue and Third Street from 1991 to 2020. In 2019, the company was sold, first to Kind Hospitality and later to Horizon Hospitality.
The Scottsdale Road restaurant opened in 2020, continuing Macayo's presence in Tempe as an option available to Arizona State University students and families. The restaurant will close at the end of this month, as its five-year lease comes to an end, according to a news release from the company.
The new site on Rural Road will be situated even nearer to the university campus.
“With more convenient entry and exit points and additional guest parking, our new ASU Tempe site makes it extremely easy for students to visit from campus and guests to visit from all over town,” Lucas Farnham, CEO of Horizon Hospitality said in the release. “We are excited to open with not only an open floorplan where you can feel the energy from door to door but also introduce an intimate patio adjacent to campus, for guests to enjoy outdoor dining.”
The company is currently hiring to staff up the new spot, and looking for line cooks, prep cooks, dishwashers, bussers, bartenders, servers and hosts. A hiring fair with interviews is planned for Jan. 13 to Jan. 15.
Macayo's Mexican Cuisine
Launching in the middle of February.
715 South Rural Road, Tempe
