Tairyn A.
Yelp
Sabores Chilenos has been at this location over 20 years. I remember the only other time I have been here, must have been over 15 years ago, and it still looks exactly the same!
I came in with my younger sister and nephew after a very nice day at the zoo. The place is very small and tables are very cramped so we ended up sitting at a table right next to the bathroom. When I went to wash my hands I was actually a little confused because when you go in, you are literally in their stockroom! It was funny. But it was cool to see.
We got the menu and ended up ordering typical Chilean dishes that cannot be gotten anywhere else and shared them. We are from Chile, so we know!
We got Completo, which is a hot dog with tomato, mayo and avocado, we got a Churrasco sandwich, Chilean style churrascos are different than your typical churrasco, we got beef empanadas, Chilean Style, and a pastel de choclo (which is a corn tamal like thing, served on a clay bowl which has meat and chicken filling) all were good. Our waitress was nice, but she hardly came by.
After that we went to the adjacent store, where you can buy items imported from Chile, pastries, bread, wine etc. There is this one pastry I really love which is called Berlin (don't know why) it is a deep fried dough ball, cut in half, filled with pastry cream, and dusted with powder sugar. It is so good! I think that is the only thing that I really do miss from Chile. I saw they had them and I was planning to buy a few to bring with me, I saw the girl tending the shop was our waitress. That explained why she was so scarse. There was a couple of people waiting in line (the shop is really tiny so even a couple of people make the place look about to burst) The next customer in line actually bought them all!! I was crushed, and so were many other people in line who were also waiting for them!!! I know the story is quite irrelevant, but I was so sad, that I had to include it in my review.
As far as restaurants go, this is a pretty average place. The food was OK but not out of this world, actually the empanada it was the best thing. Prices though, are very reasonable. Service was friendly but the waitress was hardly ever there. I live really far, I would not make the drive down to Miami exclusively come to this restaurant, but if I'm in the area, it an OK place.