After 62 years, Fiesta Loma Linda on East End has closed

After 62 years serving Tex-Mex in the East End of Houston, Fiesta Loma Linda, 2111 Telephone, has permanently closed, according to its website. After 62 years serving Tex-Mex in the East End of Houston, Fiesta Loma Linda, 2111 Telephone, has permanently closed, according to its website. Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close After 62 years, Fiesta Loma Linda on East End has closed 1 / 15 Back to Gallery

One of Houston's old school Tex-Mex restaurants is no longer. Fiesta Loma Linda, 2111 Telephone, has permanently closed, according to its website.

A message (written in both English and Spanish) on the restaurant's website states: "After 62 years of serving the East End of Houston, Fiesta Loma Linda Tex-Mex Restaurant & Bar has permanently closed its doors. Thank you to all of our customers and friends for their years of patronage. We will miss y'all."

A call to the restaurant went to a voice mailbox.

A vintage Tex-Mex practitioner since the era of Felix Tijerina's Felix Mexican Restaurant (which closed in 2008 after 60 years in business), Fiesta Loma Linda was known for its enchiladas, fajitas, crunchy beef tacos and chile con queso puff.

In a roundup of the city's best bowls of queso, Chronicle restaurant critic Alison Cook said this about Fiesta Loma Linda's vaunted queso:

At the vintage Fiesta Loma Linda on Telephone, when you order the very old-school yellow queso, the server will ask, "Jalapeño and onions?" The answer is "Yes." A generous saucer of chopped raw onions and pickled jalapeño wheels to stir in gives the slightly runny, mild queso lots of crunch and tart, hot bounce. At $4.99 for a small, $7.49 for a large, it's a steal. Bonus blast from the past: a chile con queso puff, with cheese dip cascading down a tortilla dome, of the sort one seldom sees anymore.