Ribbon Cutting Celebrates Hideout Café Opening at UNM Los Alamos Student Center

The Los Alamos Chamber is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony inside the Student Center at UNM–Los Alamos today to celebrate the opening of the Hideout Café, with community leaders, UNM–LA leadership and the Hideout Café owner in attendance. The event brings Chamber representatives together with campus officials in a public celebration on campus grounds.

The Chamber posted a news release on Facebook announcing it would host the ribbon-cutting Feb. 17, 2026 for the new Hideout Café at UNM–LA. That Chamber announcement serves as the organizing notice for the event and frames the ceremony as a Chamber-hosted activity at the Student Center.

Photographs and local coverage show representatives from the Los Alamos Chamber, members of UNM–Los Alamos leadership and the Hideout Café owner standing together for the ribbon-cutting and photo opportunities. A Ladailypost photo caption identifies one attendee in the image with the fragment "from left, Abiel Diaz," indicating Abiel Diaz appeared in the pictured lineup alongside other participants.

Available material from the Chamber release, the Original Report and Ladailypost confirms presence and roles only at the group level: community leaders, the Los Alamos Chamber, UNM–Los Alamos and the Hideout Café owner. The sources explicitly note photos show Chamber representatives and UNM–LA leadership, but they do not provide the full names or titles of those leaders beyond the Ladailypost caption fragment naming Abiel Diaz.

Key operational details about the Hideout Café are not included in the items provided. The Chamber news release headline and the event photos do not supply the café owner’s full name, quotes from attendees, menu offerings, hours of operation, staffing numbers, contract or vendor arrangements with UNM–Los Alamos, or attendance figures for the ribbon-cutting. Those items remain unreported in the materials available from the Chamber Facebook item, the Original Report summary and Ladailypost captions.

For readers seeking more detail, the Los Alamos Chamber news release and UNM–Los Alamos campus communications are the primary sources identified in coverage of the Feb. 17 event and would be the logical next points of contact for the full press release, a complete photo caption listing and operational information about the Hideout Café. Photographs from the ceremony show local leaders gathered at the Student Center to mark the café’s opening, and the Chamber-hosted ribbon-cutting marks the public launch of the Hideout Café at UNM–LA pending release of further details.