El Novillo - Miami

I love el Novillo. This is a staple here in Miami. I’ve been going to El Novillo since I was a child so over 30 years. The food is great, so is the service, and the portions are generous. The decor is also unchanged and it’s incredibly nostalgic.

This is a little gem. Great food and service. Nothing better than a family restaurant that has stood the test of time. Always a great meal!!!

Greta restaurant to take the family. Food is great and the service front the staff is A+

Clutch! Our go to restaurant that never misses and is always on point! Love this place.

I recently visited El Novillo with my family not too long ago and I have some mixed opinions about this place. We had a good meal, but it just wasn’t “amazing”. A family friend who used to live in Miami 20+ years ago had hyped it up for a long time and we decided to give it a shot it’s a nicer Nicaraguan steakhouse serving all the traditional meat dishes, with some specialties like chicken churrasco, seafood dishes, and more. There’s a good variety of Nicaraguan appetizers, and they bring out some garlic bread, salad, plantains, and rice beans with all entrees, which is actually really nice. We got chicken churrasco, steak churrasco, and repocheta el novillo as an appetizer. The sides weren’t very good other than the plantains those were great. The chicken churrasco was actually surprisingly better than the steak one it was quite juicy and flavorful. Really nice! The steak was kinda chewy and not quite what I was hoping for. Cooked to perfection, just not that tender. For a restaurant that proclaims “world famous churrasco”, I would expect the best of the best. I just unfortunately can’t say it was the best! Our food came out in a timely manner and service was good, other than our first waiter not speaking any English and him needing to bring us a different one not really any big complaints though. Awesome atmosphere though, I have to say!! I just think, in general, this is one of those places that was once incredible, and has since fallen off a bit. You can see that from all their awards plastered on the wall by the entrance looks impressive, but then you see most them are from the late 90s and early 2000s. It also would make sense why our family friend was raving about this place they probably hadn’t been here in 15+ years. So would I recommend this restaurant? Probably not unless you want to try chicken churrasco. That’s really good. This place has tons of potential hopefully they’ll make the necessary changes to head in the right direction again!!