# @downinnadesert on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbl9BriEsZJ
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-03T21:27:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Down In The Desert🌵 (@downinnadesert) — https://gondola.cc/downinnadesert

## Caption

Old Town Tortilla Factory was supposed to reopen today. Instead it’s gone after 30 years.

Back on June 28 the restaurant posted what looked like a routine summer break, closed June 30 through August 2, back on the patio August 3. Half the Valley goes dark for a stretch in July. Nobody thought twice. Then on Friday, three days before the promised reopening, they posted again and this time there was no coming back.

It opened in 1996 on East Main Street in the Old Town Arts District, inside a 1930s adobe home. Chad Flaum bought it five years later and steered it through a rough stretch before the Valley Ho and the condo boom filled the neighborhood in around it. In recent years his son James ran the day to day.

If you went, you know exactly what you went for. The 1,400 square foot flagstone patio under the century old pecan trees, strung with lights. The freestanding gazebo bar pouring more than 120 tequilas. And the tortillas, made in house, brought out free with a different flavored butter every single day. It was where people took their out of town guests to show off. Engagements, anniversaries, birthdays, first dates that turned into something.

No reason for the closure has been given. The announcement thanked everyone for three decades and said to stay tuned for what’s next.

Scottsdale, what’s your Tortilla Factory memory? Pour one out.

Via: ABC15, Mouth by Southwest, Old Town Tortilla Factory

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