About Us

La Via Authentic Great Green Chili comes to you from the kitchen of Teresa Espinosa native born in 1894, wife of Samuel Espinosa, a coal miner at the Columbine Mine in Serene Colorado, once located on the rolling hills just west of the present-day Interstate 25 on State Highway 7.  Once the company town, now a public landfill. 

The family moved their coal mining home from Serene Colorado to Lafayette Colorado when Jim was a young boy. In1968 with his oldest brother Ben, they opened Benito’s restaurant in Broomfield, Colorado. Famous for flautas smothered in their mother’s great green chili.

In 1993 Jim introduced his home-grown Mexican cooking from where his roots began in Lafayette Colorado and together with 3 of his sons opened Mexican Jim’s restaurant.

With restaurants now a thing of the past, we wanted to keep the flavor of our heritage in hopes that our authentic green chili sauce will continue to grace family tables for generations to come. 

It is with great honor to introduce to you our secret family recipe handed down through the generations.