MyMiamiTips: Cantina La Veinte

Cantina La Veinte, owned by Mexico's largest hospitality company, Cinbersol Group S.A., is not your average nacho spot. Located in downtown Miami’s Icon Brickell, the restaurant and bar will pay homage to the Mexican Art Deco style, while maintaining the distinct décor of a traditional Mexican Cantina.

If you want to be where all the action is (tends to get very noisy) then i would recommend sitting upstairs, if not then downstairs will be a better option, a small waterfront patio serves the overflow crowd and private parties, great for more intimate dinners.

MYMIAMITIPS RECOMMENDS:

-Ask for the sopa de fideo seco — a spicy-sweet tomato noodle dish topped with melted queso fresco and cilantro.

-Make-your-own tacos and stuffed chiles dominate is where you’ll want to focus.

Queso Fundido: mixed of a mexican melted cheese plain or with your choice of : huitlacoche, mushrooms, poblano chile slices, zucchini flowers or chistorra.

-Goat cheese-stuffed fried chipotles, our favorite of the stuffed peppers, delivered a sweet, fiery punch with its drizzle of sugarcane reduction. A light black bean sauce and a creamy avocado sauce were unable to revive a limp ancho chile filled with chewy skirt steak and tomatoes.

-A dozen large entrées appear more as gestures to please the masses, with predictable presentations of Mexican meatballs in chipotle sauce, boneless whole red snapper, chicken in mole sauce, and four choices of steaks served with more of those lifeless fries.