A late-2025 takeover of the former Ciro's Speakeasy on Bayshore Boulevard, Quiote is the work of executive chef Felicia Lacalle, the half-Mexican Tampa veteran who led the kitchen at the celebrated Samba Room and ran the well-regarded Kuba Cocina before this. The room keeps Ciro's intimate, candlelit bones — stone walls, subdued light, an open kitchen — across roughly 70 to 80 seats, with artwork centered on agave culture. The menu rotates monthly, drawing on regional Mexican cooking and a recent research trip to Mexico City: prickly-pear-and-scallop aguachile, charred quail with mole blanco, lamb chicharron tacos, fresh tortillas pressed to order from Mexican corn. Behind it, a sipping program of roughly 175 tequilas and mezcals. For South Tampa's most serious agave-driven table.