At Las Casuelas Terraza, we’re proud to serve four generations of Delgado family recipes in the warmth and style of a Mexican hacienda. Terraza’s great food, friendly hospitality and excellent service have made it a Palm Springs institution loved by locals and visitors alike.
The Las Casuelas legacy and name traces back to Maria Fajardo, the Delgado family matriarch, who cooked for copper miners in pre-depression Arizona with her famous earthenware pots and pans, cazuelas. Fajardo’s son, Florencio, and his wife, Maria, brought “abuelita’s” recipes to their first restaurant in downtown Palm Springs in 1958, opening the Original Las Casuelas. Oddly enough, the spelling of Casuelas was a fortunate marketing typo during a cash strapped opening. That mistake has stuck with the restaurants and has become proprietary for our family’s hospitality and recipes. Loved by locals, the Original Las Casuelas still operates in the same location, just a few blocks north of Terraza.
Terraza opened in 1979 inside a historic Palm Springs casita from the 1920’s. It quickly became a landmark, routinely serving Palm Springs’ residents, visitors and vacationing celebrities. The restaurant immediately garnered awards for food and design and continues to top national lists of Mexican restaurants from USA Today (Top 10) to Thrillist (Top 20).
Today, Maria Fajardo’s granddaughter, Patricia, and her great grandson Patrick, serve her recipes to guests from around the world. It is the Delgado family’s honor to serve your family the timeless dishes that have fed ours for nearly a century.
Buen provecho!