{"id":135418,"date":"2026-01-28T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135418\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:50:33","slug":"jimmys-tacos-is-now-open-in-the-grand-central-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135418\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy\u2019s Tacos is now open in the Grand Central District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A new spot for margaritas and quesabirria tacos has officially arrived in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Jimmy\u2019s Tacos celebrated its soft opening last week at 2534 Central Avenue in the Grand Central District, marking the brand\u2019s second location and its first in St. Pete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant takes over the former home of vintage furniture shop The Foundry, which relocated just a few doors down to 2604 Central Avenue last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The St. Pete location has the same bright yellow exterior as its flagship location in Tampa\u2019s Ybor City, but the new space is noticeably larger, with expanded indoor seating, an outdoor back patio, and a full liquor bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Grand Central District\u2019s newest restaurant was originally slated to open last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/authentic-mexican-taqueria-jimmys-tacos-to-open-in-st-petes-grand-central-district\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to previous reporting from St. Pete Rising.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At the heart of that menu are the quesabirria tacos, widely considered the restaurant\u2019s most popular offering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The tacos are made with slow-cooked beef and melted white cheese, served alongside a rich consomm\u00e9 for dipping. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That same birria shows up across the menu in more unexpected ways, including egg rolls, loaded fries, bao buns, grilled cheese sandwiches, and even a comforting bowl of birria ramen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new spot for margaritas and quesabirria tacos has officially arrived in St. Pete. Jimmy\u2019s Tacos celebrated its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}