Rafael Jaime's CT Cantina Restaurants Set Up Dia de los Muertos Altars
The restaurant group's locations in Dunwoody, Alpharetta, and Fayetteville will host mariachi music on Sunday, Nov. 1.
By Leila Reynolds ·
CT Cantina & Taqueria locations are putting up altars this week ahead of Dia de los Muertos.
The restaurant group has placed an altar inside each of its CT Cantina & Taqueria sites in Dunwoody, Alpharetta, and Fayetteville. It has also set up what it calls a community ofrenda, where customers can leave photographs and written notes about family members and friends who have died. Live mariachi music is scheduled at all three locations on Sunday, Nov. 1. Dia de los Muertos falls on Sunday and Monday this year.
CT Cantina & Taqueria operates under CT Cantina Restaurant Group, which also runs CT Reforma Taqueria in Buckhead and CT Al Pastor Taqueria in Alpharetta. Rafael Jaime, who was born in Jalisco, Mexico, started the group. He came to Atlanta in 1979, took a dishwasher job at El Toro in Chamblee, and later moved into management roles before owning restaurants.
The restaurants are owned by the Jaime family. The group did not say how many altars it has installed or how many people it expects at the Nov. 1 music performances.
