I’m going to be reporting on the Venezuelan community in Miami for my CNJ445 class at UM so today we went to Caballo Viejo restaurant on Bird Road.
Caballo Viejo (“Old horse”?) is a small Venezuelan restaurant in a strip mall that integrates the colors of the Venezuelan flag into its sign. Inside it’s decorated with many cultural items like small painted guitars, signs, pictures of famous patrons and signed jerseys of professional Venezuelan baseball players. There’s also a random stone horse head bust that seems out of place until you consider the restaurant’s name.
The TV is tuned to Venezuelan news and there are Venezuelan newspapers and advertisements to read while inside.
I tried the arapitas, small fried pork-flavored dough balls.
The atmosphere is definitely Venezuelan and there’s even a sign that says “If you’re not Venezuelan you’d pay to be,” or something close to that.
Decent place to start and you can tell a lot about the culture just by eating a quick meal there.
Corey @ HM Magazine 