Molé Cantina's New Owners Rewrote the Dinner Menu First. The Happy Hour Sheet Still Says 2025.

The file names on molewellington.com tell you where the change stands. The menu page shows two dinner pages labeled "092926," a date code for September 29, 2026. Below them sit four images carrying an older code, "10-30-25." Those four are the drinks list, the brunch and lunch menu, and both pages of the happy hour menu.

So the restaurant in Wellington Green Commons, near Whole Foods on State Road 7, is halfway through a handoff. Founder Nick Cervera has retired. The new owners are Sia Hemmati and Chef Daryn Garcia. The dinner menu has been rebuilt. The menus tied to the goals Garcia named in the launch announcement are still the 2025 versions online.

Who took over, and what they said they're building

The Wellington Edit and the Town-Crier ran the same details about the new team. Hemmati and Garcia bring more than 65 years of combined hospitality experience and a record of managing $350 million in lifetime revenue. Their backgrounds run from high-volume chain operations to Michelin-caliber, James Beard Award-winning fine dining. Hemmati also owns and operates a Miami restaurant with a 40-year history. Neither outlet names that restaurant or Garcia's past kitchens.

Garcia's quote sets the target. "Our focus is on preserving the warm, vibrant atmosphere that the Wellington community loves while elevating our culinary offerings and guest experience," he said. "We're looking forward to bringing electric vibes and making Molé Cantina the destination for happy hour, brunch and post-polo events."

Happy hour, brunch and post-polo crowds are the three goals he named. As of the menu page dated October 1, 2026, the online menus for all three still carry the October 2025 code. The one that changed is dinner.

The mole stayed at the center of dinner

A new owner usually reworks the signature dish to make a point, or leaves it alone. The new dinner menu leaves it in place and calls it the "House specialty." Here is how the dish and a few other regulars compare on the two official menus.

The 2025 sheets were posted with no entrée prices, so the official menus can't show how the price of the mole changed. Third-party menu copies around the web disagree with each other, so the current $26 is the only figure to rely on. The fundido add-on gives a clean comparison. It costs $5 on both menus, and mushrooms gave way to chicharron.

The restaurant's About page still leads with the imported, handmade namesake mole and tableside guacamole. Fajitas run from $18 for vegetables to $32 for skirt steak and shrimp. Plain enchiladas are $17 for two or $21 for three. Regulars ordering the same dinner they ordered last spring will find it's still there.

The new section is called "Not So"

Most of what's new sits in a tacos and tostadas section headed "Not So." Each plate comes as three tortillas with rice and refried beans.

• Pork Belly Pastor, $18: mezcal and pineapple relish, tomatillo and avocado salsa, corn tortilla
• Queso Birria, $22: Oaxaca cheese and consommé
• Surf-n-Turf, $26: skirt steak and shrimp on flour tortillas
• Ribeye Tacos, $21: crispy potatoes and chipotle-lime crema
• Lobster Tostada, $24: roasted corn esquites, cilantro-lime aioli, tarragon
• Tuna Tostada, $19: tomatillo and avocado salsa, salsa macha, crispy onions
• Brisket Tostada, $18: pepita salsa, pickled onions, cotija

The Palm Beach Post's October 2, 2026 roundup of taco spots, published ahead of National Taco Day, labeled the ribeye tacos, the lobster tostadas and the quesabirria tacos as new. It described the restaurant as being in "its second act under new ownership and a new chef whose plating is stunning."

The starters lean the same way. Lobster Esquites is $24 and Birria Nachos are $18. A Signatures section adds La Gran Parrillada, a $48 mixed grill of skirt steak, chicken breast, pork loin and Oaxaca cheese, plus a $21 grilled salmon with a passion fruit and mezcal glaze. The children's section includes a $12 Cajita Taquera, a "little taco box" with ground beef tacos, fries, fresh melon and a churro.

Many of these dishes are shareable plates and seafood tostadas, the kind of food that suits a full table after an afternoon out. That fits the post-polo crowd Garcia named, and the dinner menu is already set up for it.

The three sheets still dated last October

Here is what is online today for the parts of the business Garcia wants to grow.

1. Happy hour. The linked sheet lists 4 to 7 p.m. daily, with guacamole, nachos, cheese quesadillas, taquitos with guacamole, meatballs, margaritas, draft beer, sangria and well drinks. No prices are shown.
2. Brunch and lunch. The 2025 sheet lists Huevos Rancheros, Torrejas, Chilaquiles, a Breakfast Torta, a Breakfast Burrito and a Móle Burger.
3. Drinks. Margaritas and cocktails including the Cadillac, Smoky Margarita, Horcharita, Wellington Sunset and Holy Mole, plus a tequila and mezcal list with Casamigos, Don Julio, Koch, Ilegal and 400 Conejos.

The launch announcement promises bites "from the refreshed Happy Hour menu." That means a new happy hour menu exists, but it hasn't been posted online yet. The brunch menu hasn't been publicly updated either, and brunch is one of Garcia's three named goals. Anyone planning a weekend brunch there this fall should go in expecting changes.

Tuesday is the first look at the other half

The launch event, "Meet Us at Molé: Same Table, New Familia," falls on National Taco Day.

• When: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 6 to 8 p.m.
• Where: 2557 S. State Road 7, Suite 150, Wellington
• Cost: free and open to the public
• What's on: DJ Babalu of Power 96 and 102 JAMZ, 2-for-1 margaritas all night, and complimentary passed bites from the refreshed happy hour menu

The posted hours are Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday noon to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday noon to 10 p.m., Friday noon to 11 p.m., and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. That page dates to November 2025, under the previous owner. The restaurant's number, as printed by the Palm Beach Post, is 561-355-5322, so it's worth calling before planning a Sunday brunch around those times.

The restaurant has been part of Wellington's dining scene since around February 2020. A Wellington The Magazine profile from that year praised its regional specials, fresh-squeezed margaritas and a list of about 125 tequilas and mezcals. The About page traces the family's first restaurant to New York in 1991. Those roots still show up on the dinner menu, in the mole. The drinks list from that history, and how the new owners handle it, is the part Tuesday's event should start to show.

For more on dining and social life near the gate, see our guides to Wycliffe social life, dining and community events and what's new near Wycliffe's gate this summer, plus our Wellington neighborhood page.

Ruby Teich keeps track of the Wellington openings and ownership changes that shape life around Wycliffe, including Molé's new chapter. If you're weighing a move into or out of Wycliffe this season, call 561‑418‑0708 or email [email protected].