Versailles Cuban Restaurant: Delicioso o Trampa para Turistas Decepciónante?

While I don’t habla the Español, I think I was built for ox tails, roast pork, empanadas, and Galician white bean soup the second I stepped foot onto this earth. Looking back, everything in my life has seemed to serendipitously lead up and prepare me for my first visit to Versailles Cuban Restaurant, a 370 seater on Calle Ocho (8th Street) in Little Havana, Miami. 

For example, in fourth grade, we had a gringo Texan with a bushy mustache, cowboy hat, and faux spurs, eat pork rinds and teach us several words of broken Spanish for 30 minutes each week. I also watched the first season of Money Heist with English subtitles and would excruciatingly repeat Spanish phrases to my Mallorcan buddy over after-work beers. “Y soy Allison Parker.” And, in Little League, I was jeeringly referred to as ‘El Guapo’, a reference to the portly Venezuelan relief pitcher for the Red Sox, Rich Garcés.

So, I was ecstatic to test my utter lack of Spanish skills and plenitude of hunger at what’s widely considered to be the ‘World’s Most Famous Cuban Restaurant’ on an illustrious trip down to the Sunshine State with my top dawg. 

Was Versailles really all that it’s hyped up to be? Is it muy bien or mal sabor? Here are my íntegro thoughts on whether Versailles Restaurant in Miami is worth it. 

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