Fireplace-ravaged Holder’s Nation Inn reopens in restaurant house 2 miles away

After his restaurant, one of many South Bay areas of Holder’s Nation Inn, burned down in early August, proprietor Efren Flores vowed to get again into enterprise rapidly — for the sake of his devoted prospects and longtime workers.

And he did, reopening in a vacant house simply two miles away in Cupertino. “It was difficult, however we managed to tug it off in record-breaking time — three months,” he stated.

Most necessary, he stated, “We had been in a position to preserve one hundred pc of our workers.”

He deliberate for a really quiet mushy opening Thursday, however phrase received out and the place was filled with regulars desirous to greet him and the workers. “I felt like a celeb. I wasn’t anticipating that form of crowd. It means lots.”

The brand new restaurant is positioned on Wolfe Highway within the former Steins house. Seating capability is not only comparable, it’s exactly the identical. With the patio, Flores can seat 214 prospects right here — the identical as on De Anza Boulevard, the place the restaurant had been positioned for 23 years.

The Wolfe Highway lease is versatile, giving him time to determine whether or not this shall be an interim dwelling or the everlasting dwelling.

In keeping with the restaurant’s historical past, the Holder empire began in 1957, when Jack and Anne Holder moved to the Santa Clara Valley from Oregon and opened Uncle John’s Pancake Home in Santa Clara. A decade later, they branched out with ​the unique “Holder’s Nation Inn,” which had a 32-year run on the previous City & Nation Village in San Jose. That restaurant relocated to the De Anza web site in 1999. A number of the Holder properties stay below household possession; others have been bought however retain the title.