Luna’s Tacos & Tequila’s downtown Greeley location will say goodbye at the end of 2025 after serving as a downtown staple for the past seven years.
“We’ve made some really great friends. It’s hard to express how awesome it’s been, how much it’s been a positive force in my life,” co-owner Brian Seifried said. “But, you know, all good things must come to an end.”
The location will stay open through the holidays, and will bring back a few favorite menu items, some of which were featured on Luna’s very first menu when the restaurant launched seven years ago, the restaurant said in a Facebook post.
Luna’s first opened in 2018 at 806 9th St. in Greeley. The business added a Windsor location at 1246 Automation Drive in April 2024.
The Windsor location will continue to operate as normal, Seifried said. Residents can also expect to see a Luna’s food trailer at events in the near future, he added.
Seifried and co-owner Ely Corliss said a handful of factors contributed to closing the downtown location.
Margins in the restaurant business are thin, and rising costs since the COVID-19 pandemic have continued to cut into those margins.
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But also, Seifried, Corliss and Sam Corliss — the three partners who operate the downtown location — are involved in several different businesses across Greeley and northern Colorado.
Seifried founded — and Sam Corliss is heavily involved in — Centennial Hospitality Group, which operates 13 Wing Shack locations across northern Colorado and Wyoming — with a 14th location set to open soon in Laramie, Wyoming. The group also runs four Sexy Sammies locations and the Windsor Luna’s.
Ely Corliss, owns the Moxi Theater, Stella’s Pinball Arcade & Lounge and Spotlight Cafe & Creamery — all on 9th St. in downtown Greeley.
“The bandwidth to kind of give it the attention it needs to really drive, just wasn’t there on our side,” Seifried said. “This location deserves an owner-operator that’s there to give it its full attention. And with how we’re spread so thin, it just really didn’t work.”
The group tried rebooting the restaurant earlier this year, taking what Seifried called a “siesta” in January, closing temporarily to “reenergize, refocus, rejuvenate and come back stronger.” The restaurant reopened April 1.
“We did some things on the interior and the kitchen that, in our opinion, were needed,” Corliss said. “We brought in our management team that had been so successful in Windsor to come over and reboot efforts downtown. And honestly, it’s been a success. Things are up from last year. It’s just not enough.”
Luna's Tacos & Tequila is located at 806 9th St. in downtown Greeley. (Greeley Tribune file photo)But for all the Mexican food lovers downtown: fear not. Another Mexican restaurant, Tres Amigos, will be taking Luna’s place — though it may look, and taste, a little different.
Tres Amigos has two locations in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and offers a more traditional menu. Both Seifried and Corliss could not have been more complimentary of Tres Amigos and what the restaurant will bring downtown.
Both are also heavily involved downtown, which Corliss called his “favorite neighborhood” in Greeley. Just around the corner from Corliss’ three businesses, the Centennial Hospitality Group’s office is located in the Coronado Building on 9th Avenue.
“We want this place to be successful. We want people that are going to be investing in the area,” Corliss said. “So I think we felt this was the best thing, not only for our business, but for the neighborhood.”
Corliss commended the work downtown business owners are doing and stressed how important community support is for local businesses.
“My call for action would be for Greeley, especially in this time when we see so much investment going out west, we should definitely be remembering all the great things and all the awesome local businesses that are downtown,” Corliss said.
And while both Corliss and Seifried are sad to see Luna’s time downtown coming to an end, they’re hoping to send the restaurant out with a bang.
“We’ve had an awesome seven years. We’ve had a whole lot of fun, and we’ve met a whole lot of awesome people,” Seifried said. “It’s been an awesome run for Luna’s, and we hope to get the chance to celebrate with, party with and hang out with some of the folks that have been so supportive over the years.”
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