{"id":70363,"date":"2025-12-04T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70363\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:12:21","slug":"south-tampa-mexican-restaurant-closes-abruptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70363\/","title":{"rendered":"South Tampa Mexican restaurant closes abruptly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a decade of serving Tampe\u00f1os, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/miguels-to-roll-out-new-all-day-concept\/2254547\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miguelitos Taqueria &amp; Tequila;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miguelitos Taqueria &amp; Tequila<\/a> recently locked its doors. In late November, patrons were met with a sign on the door from owners Patricia and Miguel Rodriguez explaining the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we share that Miguelitos has closed its doors. After 10 years of serving the community, the current economic conditions have made it impossible to continue operating here,\u201d wrote the owners.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3f12306a24c0d3222e73ee01b08bb08f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Miguelitos was located at 2702 W. Kennedy Blvd. Miguel\u2019s Mexican Seafood &amp; Grill, Rodriguez\u2019s other restaurant, remains open just three blocks away at 3035 W. Kennedy Blvd. The owners stated that Agave Club Rewards and Miguelitos gift cards will be honored at Miguel\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Miguelitos was known for its ice-cold tequila on tap, street-style tacos, agave drinks and spirit selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a decade of serving Tampe\u00f1os, Miguelitos Taqueria &amp; Tequila recently locked its doors. In late November, patrons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[40667,40666,40668,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-70363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-evan-rodriguez","tag-miguel-rodriguez","tag-miguelitos","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70363","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=70363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}