The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 157

Hialeah goes after a new sister city wine distributors Friday are motivated to sell their products and we see it as an opportunity to expand our economic Rodriguez said Hialeah already has a sister-cities agree-' ment with Cartago Costa Rica Hialeah severed its 20-year-old sister-cities agreement with Managua in 1984 after Nicaragua became Marxist Dade second-largest city also has a 3-year-old mutual-aid agreement with Hialeah Gardens Medley Miami Springs and Virginia Gardens The cities are called in the agreement tors met with Hialeah business leaders at Goya Foods and JM Fiol Wholesale Grocery The Argentine representatives are looking for North American outlets for their products has serious economic troubles but if we can find the people in the United States who will work with us we can overcome Ortiz said A sister-cities agreement with Hialeah could lead to growth for both cities Ortiz said Vicente Rodriguez president of the Hialeah Latin Chamber of Commerce introduced the Argentine representatives to the food company leaders Thursday and Aires near the Andes Mountains and the Chilean border have a responsibility to you our blood brothers to help you sell your products in the United Martinez said The proposed sister-cities agreement must be approved by the City Council No date has been set for a hearing The 52 representatives including Mayor Osvaldo Ortiz volunteer firefighters business leaders and community leaders started a week of visits at Disney World Thursday representatives of the Argentine wine olive and olive-oil distribu By CARLOS HARRISON Herald Staff Writer Hialeah the city that called Managua Nicaragua its sister city for 20 years spent Friday courting 52 South American delegates in hopes of signing a similar agreement with an Argentine city near the Andes of you who have come in search of a new market for your products in North America may use Hialeah as your Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez told the government and business leaders from Lujan de Cuyo Friday morning Lujan de Cuyo has about 80000 residents and is about 600 miles west of Buenos cooking Land cleared for new shops near Palmetto Winn-Dixie to anchor plaza at Northwest 154th Street By TINA MONTALVO Herald Staff Writer Another shopping center is coming to Northwest Dade this one at 7709 NW 154th St just off the Palmetto Expressway A trailer with a banner occupies the cleared land that will eventually be the site of Royal Oaks Plaza which will be about 175000 square feet and have a Winn-Dixie as its anchor tenant The center is a joint venture between HSW Investments of Fort Lauderdale and Zaremba Corp of Cleveland Harold Wenal head of HSW said the plaza is 60 percent leased Yard King lawn and garden shop has signed others in the works include a drugstore a Kentucky Fried Chicken two banks and a clothing store Wenal said construction will be finished in the spring anticipate it being very he said citing "growth through the northwest and the opening of Interstate 75 Immediately to the west of the planned shopping center is Royal Oaks a fledgling development of about 50 custom-built single-family homes Rafael Oropesa who sells land there for Lovell Inc said the development will have as many as 800 homes when finished would think that people would like he said referring to the shopping center stores would be But just to the north members of the Palm Springs North Civic Association say the shopping center needed being shopping-centered to said Mary Ann Engel association secretary a Winn-Dixie at 67th Avenue and the Palmetto a shopping center in Miami Lakes with a Publix two on 67th Avenue and 186th Street one on 186th Street and Oakmont and a strip on 68th Avenue just off Engel said many of the centers have a high vacancy rate not really she said the zoning is there and we do anything about Heriberto Romeu and wife Julia work in the kitchen of their restaurant Casa Romeu Restaurant grows up with family Sunday October 19 1986 nw The MIAMI HERALD sons all of whom live near the new restaurant here why should we be Julia Romeu 52 said Jose Ramon More who owns three restaurants in Dade two El Via-jantes and Espana bought Las Delicias and says nothing has changed still have the plantain soup and the mariquitas is only one Las Delicias and it is Casa Romeu on the other hand is not quite an original The Romeus owned and operated one in San Jose de las Lajas not far from Havana until they left Cuba in 1967 Heriberto Romeu 53 predicts that within five years another Casa Romeu will go up in Hialeah the people of Hialeah have to drive so he said where we saw our sacrifices of many years turn into treat everybody said Carmen Rodriguez 31 the younger of Julia and daughters Mayor Raul Martinez to a poor man without a Julia and Heriberto her husband still start work at 6 am serving up the mariquitas and a full menu of Cuban dishes Carmen and sister Lidia 32 greet customers and run the cash register among the waitresses are sister and a cousin So well-known are the Romeus in Hialeah that Mayor Martinez proclaimed Oct 4 the date the new restaurant opened in the Country Club of Miami area Casa Romeu Day in his city Loyal patrons have spread the word and already lines form outside on weekend nights Julia and Heriberto said they sold Las Delicias at 4660 Fourth Ave to be closer to home as well as to their daughters and two grandchildren By TINA MONTALVO Herald Staff Writer When Julia Romeu and her family opened Las Delicias restaurant in Hialeah 13 years ago the going was tough used to call to people in the street have Cuban coffee and cheaper than find over Romeu said With time Las Delicias became a Hialeah tradition best known for its thick plantain soup served only on Wednesdays and its paper-thin plantain chips lightly seasoned with a mojito of garlic lemon juice and butter Not long ago the Romeu family sold the restaurant moved a few miles north and opened Casa Romeu at 18620 NW 67th Ave in the Club Plaza shopping center The name has changed but the tradition lives on.