El Novillo - Nicaraguan restaurant in Miami - 6830 SW 40th St, USA

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!!

Always great food. Baby churassco was cooked just perfect. Staff was excellent , decor of Resturant.

The decor is very interesting, really pretty. The ceviche was good, but way too acid. The fried fish was good, it had a good taste and the best part is that they take the bone out. The Margarita was ok and the 3 leches was good. Overall I would go back and also recommend.

It took 30 minutes for the food, then the waiter told us they ran out of soda lol. 10 minutes later he came back to told us they got soda. The food was delicious but for some reason they mix all our food around.

I had the churrasco and was very satisfied. Cooked perfectly taste delicious. Had the flan for dessert and an espresso. Our Guest included four adults and two kids. Excellent service excellent food can ask for anything more. Will be back soon.

Love El Novillo!! Everyone was Awesome...had took the recommendation - Nicaraguan tenderloin steak (delicious) and save room for dessert...Wow! Definitely going back next time I'm in Miami!

The food was ok but not amazing. The steaks were obviously cooked very well but the sides were just ok and there was very little variety. The service was so so. I found the servers to be too aggressive with food and drink handling. The decorations indoors were pretty good.

It was a great place to have dinner. 10/10 fast service and great quality food.