Richard Lourie

Yambo -- Carne Asada -- $5.50 Meal

Yambo, winner of Miami New Times' "Best Nicaraguan Restaurant 2007," is a great, cheap 24-hour joint. A recent $5.50 lunch consisted of grilled meat, rice and beans, sweet plantains, salad, and queso Nica. The New York Times Magazine lauded Yambo in a 2004 article by Richard Lourie. He said,