Folklore enhances the hidden Carlota Salon. In the 1850’s, the restaurant was the home of an affluent Mexican family who hired a maid. The family had a teenage son who fell in love with this maid, much to the distress of his mother, who had much better things planned for her son.

Love persisted, however, and his mother came home one afternoon to find the two lovers entwined. Enraged at what she saw, the mother grabbed a pair of scissors from the chest of drawers and stabbed the maid to death. In the process, the mother mistakenly stabbed her son, as he stepped to save his lover.