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Doņa
Lola Restaurant
Corner of Tucuman and Florida
426-2863
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Hours: Open in the evenings during the week and for lunch and dinner on the weekends.
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Menu - later
Doņa Lola Restaurant is named after the chef, Lola Hinojo de Saavedra. As of March 2006 Lola is 81 years old. She will turn 82 in September of 2006. On March 8th, 2006, which was International Women's day, she received an honorary certificate for her contributions she's made to the community through her work and as a mother and grandmother. She now has 13 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Doņa Lola runs the kitchen and her granddaughters, Ana and Gabriela manage the rest of the restaurant.
Before opening the restaurant, she had a small cafe in her house in the Zona del Prado near the airport. Before that, in the sixties, she had a small hotel in Rosario de Lerma. Her husband worked in the tobacco fields for 30 years before he died in 1973. In the 1940's there were two Argentine tobacco companies planting tobacco in the Salta region, Masalin and Selasco. In 1966 Phillip Morris bought Masalin and installed a cigarette factory in Rosario de Lerma, which is about 45 km from Salta to the southwest of Salta City. The factory has been closed but they still process the tobacco and send it to Buenos Aires where they make the cigarettes.
Lola's husband died when he was 52 of a brain aneurism, likely due to the hard manual work of the tobacco fields and the emotional stress from trying to maintain a family. The final blow, though, was the trauma he suffered when he found out that his wife Lola had lost her hotel due to fraud by some dishonest employees. Upon hearing the news he had a brain anneurism and died soon after.
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The Casona del Sur Official Site
http://www.saltacultural.com.ar/ Cultural Link In Salta - Spanish
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