Molina’s Ranch Restaurant

Molina’s is the real deal for Cuban food in Miami. Here, the food is hot, the batidos are cold, and the cafecitos have the perfect amount of espumita on top. A quarter-chicken with plantains, fluffy rice, and hearty black beans is affordable, as is the picadillo, the ground-beef brilliance you must eat to get the […]

Morro Castle

Since 1966, family-owned Cuban cafeteria Morro Castle has been Hialeah’s source for good, affordable bistec de palomilla, tostones, and moro. This Morro, which is not to be confused with the other Morro on Seventh Street, fries its shoestring potatoes to-order for its version of a frita Cubana. That’s because owner Leo Villalba prides himself in […]

The Ranch House Original

It’s hard to screw up french fries. Step one, cut potato. Step two, fry potato. Step three, eat delicious fried potato smothered in ketchup. But to be the BEST when it comes to fries is another matter altogether. And The Ranch House Original has made a reputation for its fresh cut steak fries ($2.75) – […]

Rincon Nica

Hialeah has a small but bustling Nicaraguan community that finds the comforts of its homeland at Rincon Nica, a homey restaurant just minutes away from the Palmetto Expressway’s NW 103rd Street exit. The place is not overly decorated with Nicaraguan artifacts and knickknacks, like other Nica eateries throughout Miami-Dade, except for the oil painting of […]

Shula’s Steak House

The kick here is not from champagne but from the menu – it’s printed on a football. Dolphins memorabilia also attract the eye, but the real attention-getter in this upscale steak house is the meat cart, featuring porterhouse, Kansas City strip, New York sirloin, and cowboy steaks, not to mention filet mignon and a live […]