Overrated Eats: Versailles

• @Liza: Great call. Las Culebrinas is the best Cuban restaurant in Miami. Still authentic, still delicious, and great service. I go there just for the arroz con pollo.

• OMG LOVE ENRIQUETAS! Couldnt agree with you more!!

• In my opinion Las Culebrinas (The original on Flagler and 47th) is the best Cuban Resto in Miami. Food is always excellent.

• Wow, "Kendall" Julio, lol. Just the fact that you call yourself "Kendall Julio" is telling enough. If servers who speak English are really important to you, go eat at Chuck Wagon. You're in the wrong restaurant. And for that matter, you're so arrepentido, you should just pull a Snookie, move to Jersey, and pretend your a guido instead of a Hispanic. What's even funnier is you criticizing anyone's "Ebglish". You're post reads as if it were written by a 5-year-old dyslexic psychopath. Of course you'd "pink" Sergio's any day...that type of place was tailor-made for people like you. You are all style, no substance, wouldn't know real cuisine over mediocre slop if it slapped you in the face, and you wish you were a gringo instead of a Latino. Or is it just Cubans you hate? Are you a jealous Nica or Colombian, Julio? Is that it? Little Havana has not been a little Cuba for many years. Little Havana residents are mostly Honduran, but why mess up your infantile and inane rant with facts, right? Or proper "Egblish" for that matter. Cubans made this city. If it weren't for the exiles, Miami would still be a backwards little town full of rednecks and not the international metropolis it is today. Stop hating, Kendall Julio, and go get yourself some edumacation. At the very least, you'll learn how to write better Ebglish.

• Cafe Versialles is a overrated rat infested sewer hole!! I'd pink Sergio's over La Carreta anyday, at least they make an attempt to speak Ebglish and they have 70 yr. old exiles sitting around talking abut what when on in cuba 65 yrs. ago, and who cares really. Little Havana is just as the names states, little cuba that nobody wants to go to and I'd surely not recommend it to any tourists that might want to possibly visit miami.

• If you want to rag on overrated Cuban eateries, choose La Carreta or Segio's, which are neither Cuban nor eateries. The last time I had actual <i>Cuban</i> food at one of these places, I was knee-high to a gallina. Versaille's serves, as you stated, "solid" food. Neither La Carreta nor Sergio's can say the same. You get a lot more than a decent plate of fricase de pollo when you visit Versialle's; you get history, tradition, and ambiance. You don't go to Versialle's only for a good (not great) meal, but because it is an iconic restaurant that still serves good (again, not great) food, in a city where restaurants disappear faster than mini-croquettas at a quincea� party, and the ones who are still here have chosen to cut corners by hiring cooks who are not familiar with authentic Cuban cuisine. If you don't like what Versialle's stands for, or its exiled patrons, don't take it out on the restaurant. I don't like weed, Che Guevara t-shirts, or Modest Mouse, but I don't dis Sweat Records. It's still a good (not great) record store.

• We visited water club for happy hour.What a location and what a great setup.It stopped there.There were 7 people at the bar 4 people in there 60's a younger couple and a single young man.What a grate place to have a drink and talk. "WRONG" It seems they do not know the meeting of back ground music or matching music to the clientele.The music was LOUD RAP you had to shout to talk to the person next to you.The bartender had no interest in marking customers happy saying on the week end they had a younger crowd and would not turn it down. The food was not special and servings small.A big of location,time and money.

• Enriqueta's over Versailles? Moron!

• It's the atmosphere dummy. Tourists love seeing hispanic couples in their 70s having a meal at 11pm and nobody speaking English in the place. It's also in Little Havana, not in the (formerly) Rican neighborhood of Wynwood, as Enriquetas is. In any case, every time I've went, the food's been great.

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