Photo via Google, La Camaronera Seafood Joint and Fish MarketLa Camaronera
- Hours
- Today: 11:30 AM – 8:30 PM
- Best time
- Midday, when the counter's freshest catch is still coming off the morning delivery
- Getting there
- Little Havana, on West Flagler Street near the SW 1st Street corner
Why it’s in the log
La Camaronera — full name La Camaronera Seafood Joint and Fish Market — is a working retail fish market first and a restaurant second: a counter at the front sells ceviche, fried fish sandwiches and stone crab in season, while the market behind it sells the same fish by the pound to people cooking dinner at home.
It sits on the edge of Little Havana rather than its restaurant-heavy center, more a neighborhood resource than a destination meal — the ceviche is genuinely made to order from whatever's freshest that day, not held in a tub. Seating is a handful of stools and a covered patio, not a dining room.
Go for a quick, no-frills lunch rather than a sit-down meal, and expect the crowd to be a real mix of neighborhood regulars stocking up and people eating standing at the counter.
What people said recently
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“No frills seafood joint in Little Havana. We had the snapper sandwich and conch fritters. Snapper sandwich was fantastic, the fish was delicately fried and matched perfectly well with their bread. Tostones were neither too salty nor oily!…”
“We were on vacation in Miami. I make it a point to visit restaurants to see if they live up to the hype. This place exceeded the hype. I got the fish sandwich. It was fried perfectly moist and tender melt in your mouth fresh fish. We also…”
“Was looking for a place to eat on the way to Miami airport on a Sunday evening. Saw this place on the way accidentally. Seafood specials, thought would give it a try. They were in the process of closing but still accommodated us graciously…”