VersaillesLa patria es esenciadel sentir humano,es la que nos hacesentirnos hermanos. La que nos arrancaun “sí” de nostalgia,por la que exhalamossuspiros profundos,por la que lloramostendido y profuso,por la que reímoscon sentir del alma. La patria son cuentosde toda la vida,de la calle “aquella”,de la misma “esquina”,de los adoquines cruzandola acera,del cerro, del monte,de la cordillera. […]

Some of my most valued memories as a child is that, as a family, we would go and visit to have lunch at Versailles after church on Sundays. I was always dazzled by the mirrors and obviously the great food. Boliche being my favorite. To this day, I am of the opinion that they serve […]

When Versailles Restaurant opened in 1971, I was ten years old. As an American who was born and raised in Miami, I had never experienced Cuban cuisine. I will never forget the day my father came home from work and said we were going out to dinner at a Cuban restaurant that had just opened. […]

While I have many memories of visits to Versailles, one of them particularly stands out. In the Spring of 2002, I was a Senior at Coral Gables Senior High School, and my high school prom was celebrated on a Saturday evening in April. The prom itself took place at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach. […]

It will be sixty years next November since the PanAm flight that would change our lives forever. They served us tiny ham and cheese sandwiches with the iconic blue PanAm logo that tasted of the future. We moved in with my aunt and uncle and their children into a three-bedroom house on the corner of […]