Popular Cajun and Seafood Joint in Colorado Announces Closure

With Colorado being such a "landlocked" state, it's terribly hard to find a good Cajun restaurant. After 30 years of business, one popular spot in Colorado is shutting down.

You probably hadn't heard of this place, but they had a great reputation in their area, for not only their food, but their décor and great customer service. It's been the kind of place that other restaurants should strive to be.

Maybe someone will pick up where they left off?

30 Year-Old Seafood/Cajun Restaurant in Colorado Closes

In late October of 2024, after being open since 1994, Tortugas in Longmont, Colorado, announced that its last day would be November 8, 2024.

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Longtime fans of Tortugas called it "turtles," the translation of Tortugas, as they'd come into the Caribbean style fish house, in what looked like just a "little house on the corner," at 218 Coffman Street.

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Having a restaurant in operation for 30 years, is a testament to how much people enjoyed the restaurant and how their hard work continues to pay off. Now, the owners look to the future.

....We survived the horror of 9/11, a fire that closed us for 7 months in 2006, and the unmatched challenge of COVID as a small business. And YOU were there. YOU made that happen. But now we’re a bunch of old restaurant dogs (turtles actually) that are ready to turn the page and see what the next chapter has for us.

The new owners of the building have a plan for a new concept for the restaurant; hopefully it won't stray too far from what Tortugas had been for so long.