A man gets undressed before he bathes in one of the streams that comes down from El Avila National Park in Caracas, Venezuela. AP VENEZUELA — After generations of breathing life into Venezuela’s ...

For the children of Margarita Avila, their mother is best summed up with a photo that serves as the cover for menus at the family’s chain of Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican restaurants. It was taken about ...

Salvador Avila, patriarch and founder of Avila’s El Ranchito restaurant empire, passed away from natural causes in Newport Beach on July 28. Avila and his wife Margarita opened the first Avila’s El ...

For more than 50 years, Margarita and Salvador Avila’s El Ranchito restaurants have been a go-to in Orange County for combo plates and margaritas. Regulars will definitely feel the loss the next time ...