UWS Mexican Restaurant Gabriela's To Close, Reports Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Longtime Upper West Side restaurant Gabriela's will close at the end of the month after 17 years of slinging happy hour margaritas in the neighborhood, according to reports and the business' owners.

A sign recently appeared in front of the spacious Columbus Avenue Mexican restaurant announcing that the eatery will close and thanking customers for more than 15 years of loyalty. The restaurant's owners, Upper West Side locals Nat and Elizabeth Miller, told neighborhood publication the West Side Rag that the business would either shut on Sept. 23 or 30.

Owners told the publication in a statement that the mounting pressures of running a small business and "changing market forces" forced the restaurant to close. The owners mainly blamed a rise in the minimum wage to $15 per hour for making "everything in the neighborhood more expensive."

Read the full West Side Rag report here.