Beloved LA restaurant celebrates seven decades with 92% discount on longtime combo

Talk about a throwback deal.

A beloved Southern California Mexican restaurant is turning back the clock — all the way to 1956 — to celebrate 70 years in Los Angeles.

Casa Vega, at 13301 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, is dropping the price of one of its signature meals to just $2.15 on Thursday, matching what it cost when the restaurant first opened in 1956.

Casa Vega, a Mexican restaurant on Ventura Boulevard, is pictured on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. GC Images
Owner Christy Vega celebrates seven decades of LA restaurant Casa Vega with a 92% discount on a longtime combo. Instagram/@casavegarestaurant
Owner Christy Vega celebrates seven decades of Casa Vega in Los Angeles. The restaurant celebrated the milestone with a 92% discount on its longtime combo.

Customers can order the restaurant’s “Uno #1 House” combo for just $2.15. The meal includes two items — enchiladas, tacos or tamales — along with Spanish rice and refried beans.

The usual price? $27.

“To have a restaurant last 70 years is pretty incredible, so my family and I, we take none of it for granted. We’re humbled, we’re honored to be such a big part of Los Angeles. This is where our roots are, and this is where our love lies, is in this city,” owner Christy Vega told KTLA.

The restaurant’s roots stretch back even further.

Owner Christy Vega celebrates seven decades of Casa Vega restaurant in Los Angeles. Instagram/@casavegarestaurant
A general view of the atmosphere during the Casa Vega 68th Anniversary Party at Casa Vega on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Sherman Oaks, California. Getty Images for Casa Vega

Vega’s grandparents immigrated to the US from Mexico and opened a Mexican restaurant called Cafe Caliente in 1936. Two decades later, her father opened Casa Vega.

The family’s deep LA ties were honored this May when the intersection outside the restaurant was renamed “Vega Square” on Cinco de Mayo in honor of founder Rafael “Ray” Vega and the family.

“It’s incredible, when you know, Casa Vega was immigrant-founded. So when a little Mexican restaurant and a little family all of a sudden gets an intersection named after them in L.A., it’s pretty special,” the owner said.

The family also recently added another tribute to Ray Vega.

From left, Christy Vega, Ray Vega and Charleen Vega attend Casa Vega Celebrates 60 Years on Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Sherman Oaks, California. Randy Shropshire
Owner of Casa Vega Christy Vega (left) and Anthony Espinoza, Legislative Deputy, Office of L.A., attend the Casa Vega 68th Anniversary Party at Casa Vega on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Sherman Oaks, California. Getty Images for Casa Vega

In March, Casa Vega opened the “Ray Vega Patio,” a new outdoor space with a bar that can seat more than 100 people. Vega said opening a patio had been her father’s dream.

The 70th anniversary dea lwill be available from 11:30 a.m. to midnight for dine-in customers only, with a limit of one discounted plate per person, according to the restaurant.

Reservations for Thursday are already fully booked, but walk-ins are welcome.

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