{"id":16105,"date":"2026-09-17T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/16105\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:05:32","slug":"customers-react-to-mangos-closure-ahead-of-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/16105\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers react to Mango\u2019s closure ahead of final day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MOORHEAD, N.D. (Valley News Live) &#8211; Customers are stopping by Mango\u2019s Mexican and American Grill before the Moorhead restaurant closes its doors on May 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Loyal diners from both sides of the border are making sure they get a final visit in at the restaurant, which announced its closure earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI was glad I was going to be in town so I could stop in,\u201d said Cassandra Miller. \u201cI needed my Mango\u2019s fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cassandra Miller said the restaurant has built a strong customer base across the region, and she expects the final days to be busy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey have a huge following from both Minnesota and North Dakota, so it\u2019ll probably be very packed here, and it will be a great sendoff for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her husband, John Miller, said he was surprised by how quickly the closure is happening but hopes the owners have plans to reopen elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI was a little surprised that they didn\u2019t take very long for them to close down, but it\u2019s probably for, you know, good reason,\u201d John Miller said. \u201cHope you guys open up somewhere else so we can enjoy your food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customer Donna Miller said her favorite item on the menu is shrimp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The owners are not available this week but are inviting customers to stop by before the final day of service on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVLY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOORHEAD, N.D. (Valley News Live) &#8211; Customers are stopping by Mango\u2019s Mexican and American Grill before the Moorhead restaurant closes its doors on May 25. Loyal diners from both sides of the border are making sure they get a final visit in at the restaurant, which announced its closure earlier this week. \u201cI was glad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2230,2367,9367,2371,2370,2369,3051,6557,6555,6558,6556,1893,2372,9368,2368],"class_list":["post-16105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-dakota","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-kvly","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-north-dakota","tag-north-dakota-dining","tag-north-dakota-food","tag-north-dakota-grocery-stores","tag-north-dakota-restaurants","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-valleynewslive","tag-video-updates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117287237949289714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}