High-end Tex-Mex restaurant Cocina 214, currently ensconced on Welbourne in Winter Park, announced today they will open a second location in Daytona Beach.

In a video released today on their Facebook page, owner Lambrine Macejewski said Cocina 214 has been looking to site a second restaurant for some time and called the Daytona Beach location a “jackpot.”

“I can already feel the warmth,” she punned after a welcome speech from the Daytona Beach city manager and chamber of commerce.

In our 2011 review, OW restaurant critic Faiyaz Kara called Cocina 214 “quite possibly the finest restaurant of the ‘haute-Texican’ cuisine genre in these here parts.” No open date has been announced yet, but as you can see above, the staff symbolically “broke ground” today.
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This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2017.

Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.