La Cabana Mexican Restaurant will open its second Redding restaurant at 2640 Bechelli Lane. (You may recall that space most recently held The Whole Enchilada. Before that it featured Bartels Giant Burger. Before that, I don’t remember)
Oh, happy day, La Cabana will keep its original 1335 Market Street location next to Crown Camera in downtown Redding. (btw, when I was a kid that spot was the former Sambo’s.)
I’m a regular at the downtown La Cabana. I’m a fan of the nice, friendly family who owns and operates the restaurant. They prepare and serve fresh, delicious, extremely affordable Mexican food.
One of the daughters who waitresses at the downtown La Cabana said her family hopes to open the new La Cabana on Bechelli Lane sometime next month.
Yes, they’ll use the drive-up window. Carnitas to go!
Funny stuff downtown, coming soon …
For more than 30 years The Humor Shop in Mission Square Shopping Center has been the go-to place for whoopie cushions, fake blood, Halloween costumes, over-the-hill birthday accessories and a wide selection of silly, funny and even hard-to-find gross items, like fake barf.
Not for long.
In a few months, Paige Allen, who’s owned The Humor Shop for about two years, will move her business. She’ll pack up her Pinocchio noses, redneck horns, knife-in-the-skull hats, French maid costumes, white-trash-theme-party décor and truckloads of other merchandise, and drive it across the river to her new shop in downtown Redding.
Allen said she’s outgrown her 1,900-square-foot Mission Square space. She hopes to move into her remodeled 5,000-square-food shop on Pine Street in August. The Humor Shop downtown will be a neighbor to Winchell’s Donuts on the corner of Pine and Shasta.
Allen, who grew up on Chestnut Street in Redding, couldn’t be more excited about moving downtown. Allen talked between one customer’s inquiry about an executioner outfit (she’s out of them) and another customer’s call about cat-eye contact lenses (sorry, California outlawed them).
She has big dreams for The Humor Shop downtown:
• A ’63 Ford Falcon convertible inside the showroom
• A pyramid in the Egyptian section
• Huge rocks (made by her dad) in the caveman section
• A large ship in the pirate party section
• Window displays
• A massive tree – somewhere
“I’m really excited,” Allen said from behind her front counter, mere inches from a dog-pile pen holder.
“I hope to make The Humor Shop a showplace downtown. I want to be part of the revitalization.”
