This Boise restaurant burned in 2019. A new restaurant will rise from the ashes.

When you see hammers pounding at 6565 W. Fairview Ave. soon, don’t assume there’s familiar Mexican food in your future.

Los Mariachis, which was gutted by fire in 2019, is not rising from the ashes of the empty Boise lot.

But some sort of eatery will. A similar, 3,285-square-foot replacement building should be finished by summer, said Nancy Nguyen, whose father owns the property. The space can be built out to suit the specific restaurant, she added.

No tenant has committed to the planned building yet.

Opened two decades ago, Los Mariachis was a Fairview destination for dining and live music. Boise Fire Department investigators weren’t able to figure out what started the blaze in a back corner of the family-owned restaurant. But it was not considered suspicious. After the fire, the building was boarded up. Eventually, it was torn down.

Prior to 2001, the building was a Cancun Mexican Restaurant.

Los Mariachis continues to operate a Meridian location at 520 S. Meridian Road and a Caldwell location at 4714 Cleveland Blvd.

For information about leasing the new Boise building, contact Holly Chetwood at TOK Commercial Real Estate at (208) 947-0827.

This story was originally published March 18, 2021 at 1:03 PM.