Margaritas (restaurant) - Locations

Locations

Several Margaritas Restaurants are located in unique and historic buildings throughout the northeast.

The first Tio Juan's restaurant, located in Concord, New Hampshire, is situated within the city's old police station and jail. The dining room is located in the area of the actual jail cells. The restaurant uses this to good effect, placing tables within cells to create atmospheric and semi-private dining areas. Because the Concord location was the first to be established, and had good name recognition, it remained uniquely named Tio Juan's while all subsequent restaurants were named Margaritas. The Concord location is claimed by some to be haunted by a ghost named "George". This has been documented in several local publications and in various TV shows that deal with ghosts and hauntings.

In 1987, the Orono, Maine, location opened followed by the restaurant at St. John Street, Portland, in 1989. Augusta, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, followed in 1990. The Mansfield, Connecticut, restaurant, a converted cow barn formally known as Springhill Farm, was bought from Kuka, Inc. in 1992. That restaurant combined the Margaritas Mexican menu with a steakhouse menu and was known as "Chuck's and Margaritas". That was followed by Branford, Connecticut, and Lewiston, Maine, in 1993. Lewiston incorporated the steakhouse menu for the first few years, but it was dropped in 1999.

Mystic, Connecticut, another converted Chuck's Steakhouse and later Margaritaville, became a part of the Margaritas organization in 1996. That restaurant is located in a former sail factory a short distance from Mystic Seaport. A second location in Portland, Maine, opened on the edge of the "Old Port" section of the downtown in 1997.

In 1998, Margaritas opened the Nashua, New Hampshire, restaurant in another converted factory building overlooking a canal and waterfall in the downtown. That building was originally the home of the town's power plant. 1999 saw the opening of the Keene, New Hampshire, Margaritas on Main Street in one of the oldest buildings in the town, the birthplace of the mother of Henry David Thoreau.

The Manchester, New Hampshire, Margaritas opened in early 2001. East Hartford, Connecticut, followed in 2002. Then came Salem, New Hampshire, and Waltham, the first location in Massachusetts, in 2003. Lebanon, New Hampshire, opened in 2004, Exeter in 2005, Revere, Massachusetts, in 2006, and Weymouth in 2007. In 2007, MMG sold the Mansfield and the Branford locations to back to Kukai, Inc. Margaritas then opened restaurants in Dover, New Hampshire in 2008, Lexington and Medford, Massachusetts, in 2009, and Framingham, Massachusetts, in 2010.

In 2011, Margaritas opened their first franchise location in Livingston, New Jersey. Additional franchises are slated for New Jersey as well as northern Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania. As of June 2012, there are 22 company-owned Margaritas Mexican Restaurants.

The Livingston location closed in September, 2012.