El Carajo International Tapas & Wine

• Cuisine(s): Spanish, Tapas
  Hours: Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm
  Price: $$$
  Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
• Attire: Casual
  Features: Takeout, Private Party, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly, Vegetarian Friendly, Family Style
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
  Alcohol: Beer/Wine
• Reservations: Accepted, Recommended on Weekends
  Parking: Free

Description

Some of the best tapas in Miami can be found in a gas-station convenience store at the corner of South Dixie Highway and SW Seventeenth Avenue. Past the shelves of motor oil, sodas, and potato chips is El Carajo. This thoroughly charming wine and tapas bar features a 2000-bottle wine list and a roster of tapas and main plates almost as extensive. Even better, wine and food are exceptional values. A bottle of wine with your meal costs retail plus ten bucks, tapas are almost all less than $10, and the $18 tabla de carne - an assortment of grilled skirt steak, lamb and pork chops, chicken breast, sausages, potatoes, and roasted peppers - will easily feed three hungry diners. Also check out the generous salpicón de mariscos and intensely garlicky gambas al ajillo; then finish with a rich, creamy guanabana flan.