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Restaurant · Miami, United States
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A large Cuban restaurant and bakery on Calle Ocho in Little Havana, with a street side takeaway coffee window, open since 1971.
For the ventanita and the ritual around it, and for a dining room that functions as the community's front room. Go for the place, not for a ranking.
The coffee window, the late hours, the group friendliness, the location in the middle of Little Havana, and the sheer civic weight of the room.
Better Cuban food exists nearby. The middle of the day brings coaches. The interior is dated in a way that is charming on a good night and tired on a bad one.
First time visitors to Little Havana, groups, late eaters, and anybody who wants one authentic four minute experience rather than a two hour one.
You are chasing the best Cuban meal in Miami, in which case ask somebody local and go where they say.
Weekday mid morning for the window and the neighbourhood, late evening for the dining room. Order a cortadito at the ventanita even if you are not eating. Calle Ocho between 12th and 17th Avenue is the walk to pair it with.
Not applicable. Coffee at the window costs a couple of dollars.
Calle Ocho, Little Havana, on the mainland west of downtown. Not walkable from Miami Beach. Rideshare or bus.
Little Havana's main commercial street, with Domino Park, cigar shops and galleries within walking distance. A working neighbourhood on a weekday, a street party on the last Friday of the month.
Four minutes at the window, ninety minutes in the dining room, half a day with the neighbourhood.
Step free from the pavement to both the window and the dining room.
Go for the window, stay for the neighbourhood, and let somebody else argue about whether the ropa vieja is the city's best.
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Versailles on Calle Ocho is the best known Cuban restaurant in the United States and the unofficial civic centre of Miami's Cuban community, which is a heavier sentence than a restaurant usually deserves and in this case is accurate. Elections get contested on the pavement outside. News crews set up here by reflex when something happens in Havana. The dining room is large, mirrored, busy and decent. Ropa vieja…
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