YoBo Cantina Fresca

03/18/2026

it’s a great day for a Yo Bo Margarita

quarts of Yo marg mix available for purchase
1 for $16 // 2 for $30 // +$5 for delivery

dm to get yours, while supplies last

02/14/2025

02/13/2025

It started as a daydream while driving down the NJ Turnpike in 1999...I was going to open a burrito shop and call it “Yo! Burrito.”

After six months of researching the concept, I learned that McDonalds had just purchased a burrito concept called Chipotle and I knew then that I was onto something.

With no restaurant experience beyond being a prep cook for one winter in Crested Butte, Co., I took over an old sandwich shop called “Wrap City Grill” at 86 Wentworth street in August, 2000.

People have asked how I did it. I relinquished control to the staff and gave them the freedom to create. They helped make Yo Burrito great. A happy staff makes for a happy culture and great food. In fact, some of the best recipes and specials came from letting the staff explore, create, & execute their own ideas.

This company made me “dad” to a bunch of kids that I never had. Some of my greatest accomplishments have been helping and advising staff outside of work. Doing so always made me happy because no matter how big my problems were, I could always be a mentor to someone in need. I helped a cook buy a car, got a manager out of debt & helped more staff move apartments in my red pickup truck than I can count. In return, my staff showed up hungover, on holidays, and in a pinch.

The Charleston f&b community has always been unique in comparison to other cities. It has this steady engine of passion, creativity, and optimism. It keeps going even as businesses open and close and while great people move from restaurant to restaurant. The energy, passion, fuel, and adrenaline of the Charleston restaurant culture does not give way. That’s why you see the same great staff in different kitchens as restaurants evolve or why you see the same restaurant owners changing locations, opening new concepts- doing it over and over. It’s as though we cannot learn the lesson that is staring us right in the face. The feeling is so great, we simply cannot let it go.

But after 25 years, at this current moment, I feel like I’m ready to let go.

It has been an honor to be a stitch in the fabric, a page in the book, and a member of the family.

Thank you, Charleston.

02/12/2025

BURRITO CE***ZA TEQUILA 2013

I was overcome on Monday and accidentally posted the wrong photo. It started 12 years ago, it ends this week. I am humbled by all the texts, DMs, comments, and people that have shown up and IT’S ONLY WEDNESDAY!

✌🏽 more days.

Please come say bye. The tequila is flowing, the vibe is high, & I will hear until the last second. & are working the final shifts. Rumor has it that is making a cameo 🧐

02/10/2025

TWELVE YEARS

12 years ago on February 13, 2013 we signed our lease here in S. Windermere. As our twelfth year at our last standing restaurant comes to a close, we have decided to also close our doors and say goodbye to our final burrito shop.

Nick hired me at the downtown Yo Burrito in 2006 and since then, we have had 4 Yo Burritos, 3 Yo Bo Cantinas, 2 babies, 1 El Camino (who remembers?) and sold over 2,000,000 burritos (yea, 2 million).

The Charleston restaurant culture captured me fresh out of college, brought me to present day, and filled me with memories that would take too long to recount here. I started working under Annie Bass, Spencer, & Keith and side by side next to Tom Leonczyk. Then opened new stores with Ford Tanner, Garrison Norris, Sean Catenacci, & Kay Kay Uhde. We hired legendary servers like Ali Burkey, Bre Flannery, Laura Sparrow, Caitlin Howard, Abby Pease & Laura Svendsen. I couldn’t have done the last stretch without Mary Patrick & Daisy Rodriguez. We are overlapping generations of staff but also intertwined, bonded, and connected through this company. We made memories, forged friendships, mixed countless Mason jar margaritas, and consumed an unbelievable amount of tequila. Seriously, is everyone ok?!

We have cooked, cleaned, snacked, drank, laughed, cried, fought, hugged. We have cut ourselves, burned ourselves, been broken into & robbed. We have fired, hired, struggled, succeeded. We have created & created & created, for TWENTY FIVE years. We are Charleston’s best burrito restaurant - home to the Mason Jar Margarita - the motliest of crews. We are a place that I proudly call mine.

We are here because Nick Powers opened the doors at Yo Burrito © 2000 and I wouldn’t change a thing. Most of you reading this probably worked here. Maybe you have eaten here or maybe you’ve ripped a shot of tequila here. If you are reading this, we love you. If you worked here, we are proud of you. We miss you all. We want to see you before it’s over.

LONG LIVE OUR MEMORIES TOGETHER & thank you Charleston- you’ve made my life.

⁃Kat

Last day of service is Thursday 2/13 or until we run out of inventory

12/12/2024

put the lime in the C O C O N U T 🥥
Decembers featured marg. Try it while you can

12/10/2024

( Cherry C***r ) dark cherry infused // apple c***r // Yo mix // cran for color // cinn-sugar rim

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12/06/2024

Did this cold winter come a little hard and fast for you too? Stop in Wednesday & Saturday to warm up and enjoy HALF OFF the bar through the end of January
We’ve got you ;)
*excludes specials * 3-close*



We’ve got you :)

12/04/2024

Enchiladas Rojo : seasoned beef // cheddar // Mary’s red sauce // rice & beans

11/07/2024

Cranberry Crimson Marg features dark cherry infused tequila, cranberry & lime juice, agave and a splash of soda. Finally a marg that’s full of antioxidants- we know you’ve been searching for one 😉