It's time to get the sombreros ready, with a vacant former steakhouse getting a Mexican makeover.

After sitting empty for over 15 months, Sara Hawkins and Darren Schulze are breathing new life into an icon of Tamworth's dining scene.

The Gold Coast restaurateurs have begun transforming the old Hog's Breath Cafe in Peel Street into the newest addition to their stable of Nude Amigos restaurants.

What will be the fourth location for the Mexican cantina and margarita bar, and first venture beyond the pristine shores of the Gold/Tweed coast, Ms Hawkins said the seed for the Tamworth move came from an associate who has business connections to the city, asking if they had ever considered expanding regionally.

They weren't sure, but as she started telling them about the region, their interes

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