Rancho Mateo

Restaurant is very nice and clean inside. They have both indoor and outdoor seating. They have a stage for live music and a really nice bar. Food portions were pretty big leaving us a lot of food to take for leftovers. Our waiter was very helpful in helping us decide what to eat. Overall a good experience

Feliz Cumpleanos! We celebrated with our Miami family like there's no tomorrow at Rancho Mateo! What a fantastic place to celebrate a birthday! They had a live band singing Cumpleanos Feliz multiple times for all the birthday people. Everyone in the place sang in their loudest voices, including yours truly! It was so much fun, so loud, so crazy and I loved it!! Adriana, our birthday girl, was having a blast! Columbian food is their specialty. We ordered several Carne a la Llaneras and they arrived in a huge stack on a big platter for everyone at our table! They were delicious and seasoned perfectly. They came with roasted potatoes, onions and everyone dug in. Soon we needed a second platter! Our lovely birthday girl was given a very special birthday drink that was in the largest cocktail glass I've ever seen! She loved it. Then a pitcher of beer arrived and we all tried it. The most delicious I have ever tasted! It's called Refajo....aguila beer and Colombiana champagne soda. Wow! I was glad that I was not driving that night. The singers came along and we clapped and sang Feliz Cumpleanos!! We had a great time! Our server was Javier and he was outstanding! We were never ignored. He made sure we had water, drinks, and were happy. We sure were happy!! We had the best time!! I felt rejuvenated when it was time to leave. The place was packed. I heard that if you don't arrive before 7:00pm on a Saturday, there will be no tables left. When we left, there was a long line of people waiting for a table. They have outdoor dining as well as indoor. There is a large parking lot there. Put this wonderful restaurant on your list asap. You won't regret it.

Great place for some colombian food. Very nice decorated. staff was great and food was amazing. Was bit pricey but when you see these plates you won't mind. Worth every penny. Desert were very yum. Had a large group and was still very quick and smooth. Will defetnally be going here again. A must while In miami

Nice neo-Colombian atmosphere in the heart of Tamiami. Service was great from beginning to end. We walked in and the hostess accommodated us on the side patio and the server was super attentive and checked back with us often. The food was great except for the really tough octopus in the seafood salad. Portions are huge so keep it in mind and plan to share or take some home. Great lunch spot. I’ll be back to try some more things on the menu and hopefully they have specialty cocktails made with classic Colombian ingredients!

This place really surprise me, we were looking for a good carne en vara o a la llanera Venezuelan or Colombian restaurant since I’m Venezuelan and my husband is Colombian, we being trying different places that were not bad but somehow were missing something but this place has it all. The place is big and decoration was very Colombian, everything was clean and tables has enough space between each other, everybody was in uniforms making it feel like a well prepared workers. Great attention staring from the hosted that she was very nice, then our server Sebastian (the receipt said that was his name) was very patience and was recommending things without putting pressure, he came to the table a couple time to check on our food and make sure we didn’t need anything while we were eating but still gave us our space and time to eat and relax in our own time, he offered dessert and broad our check in very nice timing. We started with a large Refajo, it was a bit big for two but at the end we drank it all (I don’t have a picture for this) but was perfect for the food we got. We didn’t got an appetizer because we want it to eat a lot of meat, so we started with the “Carne llanera” (medium) that comes with cole slaw (Colombian style) steam potatoes and fried sweet plantain, the meat was tender and had that particular charcoal Smokey flavor very características of this type of preparation, the salad was a little citric very Colombian style and match perfect with the meat and of course potatoes and plantains were perfect, the portion was big, it was a lot of meat. We also got an “Entraña Marinera” (medium) that was a skirt steak perfectly grilled súper extra tender that was melting as soon as got in my mouth topped with huge shrimps on a White House sauce, the combination of flavor for this meat was amazing didn’t need anything else the border of the meat was little crispy but the middle was medium, you can pick two sides and we picked rice and French fries, the rice was perfectly loose and fries were crispy and flavorful too. And we finished with a “Tres leches Natas” that we shared, this is a tres leches cake mixed with postre de natas and it was fantastic, really creamy and actually it wasn’t that sweet, it was perfect. Oh prices were very good for the quality of food they served. Pictures will not make justice for the great flavors and textures we ate.