La Mesa Mexican restaurant Por Favor to close after 50 years NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

A La Mesa Mexican restaurant that locals have loved for 50 years is closing. Por Favor announced it will close one of its two locations on Sunday.

Por Favor is switching ownership to the same group that owns Farmers Table, Farmers Bottega and Limoncello.

A notice from management thanks the loyal customers and reads: “We loved serving you our margaritas and great Mexican food.”

To those customers, this is the corner for comfort food.

“You can sit outside,” one customer said. “It’s nice and open. It’s a good experience. That’s why we do it.”

For nearly 30 years, Barbara Oesterling, a regular at Por Favor, said she and her friend Sally Ingles asked for the same waiter every time they dined there.

“As soon as we sit down, he’d brings our teas. He’d bring our lunch,” she said. “He knows us, we know him and we know the place.”

Customers wish the restaurant …