Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer

Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer: home-style Mexican cooking and craft beer in Fort Lauderdale

Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer is a traditional California-style Mexican restaurant with craft beer service, located in Fort Lauderdale (Florida). The establishment describes itself as a fonda, that is, a small neighborhood eating house, and is owned by the Smith family, the same family behind Jalapenos De Ybor in Tampa. It opened its doors in 2006 and since then has maintained a menu based on family recipes passed down through generations.

Family recipes and slow-cooked cooking

Quvo's kitchen relies on the recipes of Alicia Smith, a first-generation Mexican American who learned to cook alongside her mother, Eva Romero, a cook well known in her neighborhood. As a child she helped at her parents' guest house, where the family fed migrant farmworkers. Those inherited recipes are the basis of the current menu.

The restaurant states that every dish is prepared from scratch in small batches, with slow cooking. The offering is presented as authentic home-style Mexican cooking, with special attention to consistency and depth of flavor.

The tacos and the most-ordered dishes

The taco menu includes handmade preparations using family recipes. Among the standout varieties are:

• Pork birria tacos: deep, rich, slow-braised; the establishment names them as its most-requested taco.
• Pork carnitas tacos: slow-cooked pork, tender and full of flavor.
• Fish tacos: white fish lightly dusted and pan-fried to a golden crisp.
• Chicken tacos: slow-cooked, never dry, never grilled.

Among the dishes the house presents as guest favorites are street tacos ($12.00), loaded nachos ($16.00), enchiladas ($16.00), and churros dusted with cinnamon sugar ($9.00). The full menu is available on the restaurant's website.

Sixteen craft beer taps

Beer is not a secondary complement at Quvo: it is part of the establishment's name. The restaurant has sixteen taps that rotate constantly among local and craft beers, with seasonal offerings and unusual selections from nearby and far-off breweries. The selection is driven by Matthew Smith, a craft beer enthusiast for more than thirty years.

In addition to beer, the establishment serves wine and house sangrias. The drink menu is designed to accompany both a crisp lager alongside the birria tacos and bolder options for dishes with chorizo.

Weekly offerings: Taco Tuesday and In the Biz Mondays

The restaurant holds two recurring weekly events:

• Taco Tuesday: three-dollar tacos and two dollars off draft beer, wine, and sangria all night long.
• In the Biz Mondays: on Mondays, food and beverage industry professionals get twenty percent off food and drink. The promotion is accompanied by one-dollar wine margaritas with any food purchase, for a limited time.

Service and operations

Quvo is open Monday through Friday in the evening and closes Saturdays and Sundays. The kitchen stops serving at 9:15 pm. The restaurant offers online ordering for pickup and delivery, as well as reservations through OpenTable; it also accepts walk-ins and phone orders.

The establishment presents itself as a neighborhood spot with a family atmosphere, where regular customers have a prominent presence. At the time of the analysis, the site showed a 4.8-star rating on Google and mentions on Yelp and Restaurant Guru.

Location and contact

4354 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 · Phone: 954-368-3664 · Email: info@quvotacos.com · Hours: Monday to Friday: 5:00 pm-9:30 pm. Saturday and Sunday: closed. The kitchen closes at 9:15 pm.