Beto’s Carnitas & Guisados opens on Friday, February 20, at 69 Clinton Street, near Rivington Street. The former pop-up from Tahiz Gonzalez and Connor Kaminski has found a permanent home on the Lower East Side after its pop-up, which started in 2023, built a following for its carnitas.

Beto’s is about “bringing that Mexico City style that we’re missing in New York,” Gonzalez says. “Carnitas really reminded me of my childhood.” The name comes from her late father, Umberto — she remembers going out for carnitas every Sunday as a family while growing up in Mexico City. (Recently, Border Town, another NYC pop-up-turned-restaurant, opened in Greenpoint with Northern Mexican-style tacos de guisados.)

The star of Beto’s menu is the carnitas ($5), slow-cooked pork in house-made flour tortillas made with masa from Masienda. The other guisados include mushrooms ($5.50), chicken tinga ($5), picadillo ($5.50), chicken mole verde ($6), chicharrónes with salsa verde ($5.50), and chambarete (beef) in salsa morita ($6.50).

The $13 tortas come with carnitas or mushrooms, made with bolillos by Don Perea. There are also $9 chicharrones gorditas, alongside rice, beans, and guacamole with chips.

Before New York, Gonzalez worked at fine dining restaurants Sud 777 and Restaurante Quintonil in Mexico City. She and Kaminski (who is from Maryland and attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park) both started at the Nomad Hotel in 2018. A year later, she left for Eleven Madison Park.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, the couple started their own taco kit delivery business, which turned into a pop-up in 2023 at breweries like Fifth Hammer, Finback, and Wild East. The logo features the booty of a pig in a purple outline — in honor of the 7 train, since they lived in Queens for a bit.

“We quickly realized this is something we can actually do in the right space to turn our dreams into reality,” Kaminski writes to Eater.

In November 2025, they signed the Lower East Side restaurant lease, taking over what was previously Izakaya Ronin. The 1,000-square-foot space includes 10 dine-in seats in the back and standing counters in the front.

They’re working on getting their liquor license to stock the bar in the back of the space, but for now, there are Mexican juices and sodas.

Beto’s opening hours are from 3:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 3:30 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.