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    Mexican restaurant set to open in downtown Forest Lake

    November 4, 2020

    The Ruelas brothers have been in the restaurant business for nearly 15 years. With experience under their belt, they began working toward opening their own restaurant. For the past four years, they have been the owners of Rancho Loco in Cannon Falls. But now they are looking for something closer to home. 

    “We wanted to open our own place, and it’s [the Cannon Falls location] been open for almost four years and it’s been doing good,” Ramon said. “We do have plenty of people that are helping us a lot down there and we wanted to have something closer to our houses, and that was when we started to look for something closer to our places.” 

    Ramon and Salvador Ruelas are set to open the doors of their second Rancho Loco location in downtown Forest Lake as early as December — they would like to have it open sooner, but they are awaiting the approval of their liquor license from the state. 

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