The new restaurant opens to the public today, May 26, as part of Bayside’s ongoing transformation into a more dining-focused waterfront destination. While longtime fans can still expect COYO’s signature fresh-made tortillas, smashed-to-order guacamole and street-style tacos, the new location introduces a noticeably elevated look and a handful of menu items you won’t find elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Spanning more than 4,000 square feet, the restaurant was designed by Saladino Design Studios and blends mid-century influences with Mexican-inspired design details. Think custom mosaic seating, neon accents, large garage-style doors and plenty of indoor-outdoor space overlooking Biscayne Bay. The result is a bit more grown-up than the brand’s original Wynwood roots, but it still keeps the energetic atmosphere that made COYO a local favorite in the first place.<\/p>\n
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Executive chef and co-founder Scott Linquist has created two dishes available only at the Bayside location. The first is a Michoac\u00e1n-style carnitas taco topped with crispy pork, serrano salsa, onions and cilantro. The second leans heavily into Miami’s multicultural identity: the Quesadilla Cubana, stuffed with pulled pork carnitas, ham, queso mixto, pickles and mustard\u2014a mashup that sounds like a Cuban sandwich and a quesadilla collided in the best possible way.<\/p>\n
For Bayside, the addition marks another step in the marketplace’s ongoing evolution from tourist pit stop to a more serious dining and entertainment destination. For taco lovers, it means one more excuse to head downtown\u2014and perhaps linger a little longer over a margarita with a bay view.<\/p>\n
COYO Taco Bayside is located at 401 Biscayne Boulevard and is open daily from 11am to 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami’s taco scene just got a waterfront upgrade. COYO Taco, the homegrown taqueria that helped popularize late-night tacos,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2019,225,227,226,2020,687],"class_list":["post-286153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-news-eating","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286153","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=286153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}