{"id":5670,"date":"2019-02-13T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:23:46","slug":"cilantro-tacos-tioga-bento-mothers-north-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/2019\/02\/cilantro-tacos-tioga-bento-mothers-north-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Cilantro Tacos at Tioga, Bento, Mother\u2019s North now open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Read the full article on gainesville.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gyro Plus, however, has closed, but there may be plans to reopen the Mediterranean restaurant next to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a roundup of Gainesville restaurant news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cilantro Tacos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cilantro Tacos, a Mexican restaurant, also known for a food truck that makes its rounds in Gainesville, has opened one of its two planned locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cilantro Tacos at Tioga Town Center, 12921 SW First Road, Suite 103, opened Jan. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owner Sydney Meth said in April the location would still offer all of Cilantro Tacos\u2019 favorites, like its steak, fish, shrimp or chicken tacos, burritos and five types of salsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meth could not be reached for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to its Facebook page, the new location has already been a hit with west Gainesville and Newberry residents. The location has at least once sold out of its food inventory, a post said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the move to Tioga, Cilantro Tacos\u2019 first location, \u200e25740 W. Newberry Road, has since closed after five years in the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second Cilantro Tacos is expected to open in the old International Grocery & Deli, 317 SW Fourth Ave., which will become a part of the Fourth Avenue Food Park scheduled to open in spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, Meth said the decision to open the new restaurants was not made to get rich but because she believes her food can connect people from all walks of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cilantro Tacos in Tioga is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bento<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its sign has been up for months, but Bento, a pan-Asian restaurant founded in Gainesville 16 years ago, has now opened at The Standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bento had its soft opening Wednesday at 150 NW 13th St. after delays in construction postponed its opening, said owner Johnny Tung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tung said he decided to open Bento at The Standard because of its proximity to the University of Florida and its loyal Gainesville following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGainesville is where Bento started,\u201d he said. \u201cWe consider this a homecoming of sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tung opened the first Bento off Newberry Road with his brother, Jimmy, in 2002, and has since expanded the brand to 11 other locations in Orlando, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, St. Petersburg and South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bento at The Standard will offer all of Bento\u2019s menu favorites, like its curries, pad thai, lo mein, sushi, teriyaki dishes and of course, its famous Bento boxes, Tung said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also offers boba tea, Asian beers and sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tung said the restaurant has 60 seats and an outdoor patio. It\u2019s open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily and will most likely deliver through Bite Squad, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bento plans to open up at least seven more locations this year, Tung said. Its corporate offices are in Orlando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother\u2019s Bar and Pub North<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother\u2019s Pub and Grill has opened a second location in the former Sal\u2019s Place spot at 5109 NW 39th Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owner Patrick Schaller said the new location, Mother\u2019s North, has more of a \u201crestaurant feel\u201d than the 11-year-old Mother\u2019s location on West University Avenue. It opened Dec. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMother\u2019s on University will always be my dive bar,\u201d Schaller said. \u201cMother\u2019s North has a little cleaner, restaurant feel to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother\u2019s North offers the same menu items as the West University location, Schaller said, which includes an assortment of options, including food items from tacos, chicken wings and salads to Shepherd\u2019s pie and Sloppy Joes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schaller said the West University Mother\u2019s location will remain open, despite some customers\u2019 worries that a new location would mean closing the old one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople have been saying this place was closed for three years,\u201d he joked. \u201cWe are open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gyro Plus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother\u2019s West University neighbor, Gyro Plus, closed Sunday. However, Schaller said its customers are in luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plans to reopen the Mediterranean restaurant next to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore at 2401 SW 13th Street, a previous location, Schaller said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gyro Plus 352 Delivery page also said owners had plans to reopen the store at that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its owners could not be reached for comment. Schaller said owners told him they planned to reopen at the new location in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read the full article on gainesville.com Gyro Plus, however, has closed, but there may be…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}