{"id":227649,"date":"2026-05-11T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:30:13","slug":"floral-parks-uptown-taco-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227649\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral Park’s Uptown Taco closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weathering the challenges that came with opening a restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic, Uptown Taco in Floral Park<\/a> has closed after six years.<\/p>\n

The taco spot’s\u00a0closure was announced on the eatery\u2019s Instagram Saturday. In the post, owners Bill Barry and Lou Ventura said are selling the business. They served their last meal May 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cUptown Taco was more than a business; it was a dream we got to live because of you,\u201d reads the post signed by Billy and Lou. The owners did not immediately respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n

The social media post has over 60 comments and over 780 likes. <\/p>\n

The business, which replaced Oak House Mexican Kitchen on Tulip Avenue, opened in 2020. Uptown opened shortly before then-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mandated that restaurants suspend dine-in service altogether due to the pandemic, Newsday previously reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

The menu, which had a lot of gluten free options, included loaded plantains and nachos as starters. The \u201cgringo taco\u201d was served in a hard shell, with ground beef, iceberg lettuce, pico de gallo, cheddar lime crema. Uptown also offered vegetarian tacos such as \u201cveggie gringo,\u201d cauliflower or Brussels sprouts options. <\/p>\n

Uptown Taco,155 Tulip Ave., Floral Park\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/p>\n

Melissa Azofeifa is a restaurants reporter with Newsday’s FeedMe team. Having grown up on Long Island, she loves talking about food and its impact on culture. A graduate of Stony Brook University, she joined Newsday in the fall of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weathering the challenges that came with opening a restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic, Uptown Taco in Floral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8695,8696,9,24,63,122,124,123,821],"class_list":["post-227649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-feedme","tag-fmclose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}