Rosalio Via Lobos flips through the menu. He scans a page and then starts turning pages again.

“We have Cornish hen, but I don’t see it,” he said. “We made the menu very quickly. They moved some things around.”

Designers laid out and printed the menu in just two weeks. But everything about the opening of the new Mi Casa Mexican Restaurant in Mexico moved at record pace.

Via Lobos and his wife Ruth began renovation of the old Casa del Sol space on March 16. They opened the spacious and colorful dining room last Saturday.

“We worked every day,” he pointed out. “And we are still working.”

The menu offers a range of dishes spanning Mexican traditions like alambres and those familiar north of the border. So there are nachos, taco salads, fajitas — and nacho fajitas, for that matter. But you can also savor guisado de puerco.

There is an impressive list of shrimp and seafood plates, with vegetarian options, house specials and combination plates.

And the restaurant offers specials, some of which may appear on the menu as the restaurant settles in.

Via Lobos says business has been better than anticipated. Although unannounced, the opening drew a lot of traffic.

“So far, so good,” he added.

Via Lobos has spent decades — “all my life” is the way he puts it – working in the service industry, most often as a manager. That’s one of the reasons the couple could pull things together so efficiently.

“It’s easier because I know the business,” he said of ownership. “But it’s more work.”

The couple moved to Mexico from Hendersonville, Tennessee after hearing about the vacant space from a friend. And while they came with industry experience and recipes for dozens of favorite dishes, they had given little thought to curb appeal.

“We didn’t have a logo,” Via Lobos said.

So they turned to their daughter, Gabriella Via Lobos, for help. A college student in Tennessee, she sketched out a humble abode in a rustic, desert setting.

Problem solved – sort of.

“She was embarrassed,” Via Lobos observed with a chuckle.

Mi Casa is located at 2780 S. Clark St. in Mexico.