Miami Café

Went here for lunch with my kids ages 11 & 13. Looked like a cute 50’s diner. Service was ok, but didn’t like how the waitress mumbled.
Have to say we had a terrible meal and I told them so when we left. I have never done that.
We Had the mushroom soup, worse than a can of cream of mushroom soup. Served with 2 slices white bread € 4.50. Split the Miami omelette with my eldest, came with chips which was the only thing good about the entire meal € 10.50! My youngest had the worst meal. Small kids hamburger, McDonalds size. I can’t believe she ate more than two bites. I think she didn’t want to complain. We all tried it and it was terrible. I think the texture was the worst. Oreo shake, not so bad.

have to say i wasn’t too impressed with this establishment mainly due to the dirty looks i was getting off the staff and i also thought it was rude that they where talking in another language (i presume italian) about other customers and tittering and laughing at them (i could tell they where talking about them because of there general body language by the way) its also not a good thing if you are trying to run a business to give everybody a look up and down as if they are not welcome in your ever so fabulous fast food eatery. i would give it a miss you certainly wont be missing out on much don’t put money into the pockets of ignorance to fuel their self centered superiority complex’s they are running a chipper not a monarchy they should really calm down with themselves. food isn’t all that good neither mediocre at best id say.

A bit small, and everything seem to be squeezed together. Besides this the fish and chips are excellent, and the service is outstanding!

I always loved the fact that a chipper on the main street in Dun Laoghaire desired to call itself the Miami Café. As some previous reviews have noted there’s about as much connection to Americana in here as there is between the beaches of Sandycove and the Copacabana. Still there’s something about the interior that’s just so 1980’s (or early 90’s at a push; It’s the sort of place that I can picture East 17 sitting down to do a music video circa 1993). All this leads, somewhat nostalgically, to the conclusion that this was named after Miami Vice. Wishful thinking no doubt but I always wanted to be Crockett and he had the best damn TV theme tune of all time!
As for the food the burgers in her are average, the chips and onion rings are perhaps a bit above average. Realistically I can’t comment on anything else they do because I haven’t had them. Prices are actually pretty good, service is reasonably quick and the last time I was in there they even had a small TV near the service area so I could watch a few minutes of Champions League while I was waiting.
They do have a sit-​down part as well but I’ve never used it. Chipper is supposed to come out of the bag, on a plate it just doesn’t look right. It may have something to do with the fact that it’s a more prominent visual reminder that your arteries are just clogging by looking at the stuff. ..

Made the call.
‘Story?
Not much.
Food?
Let’s do it.
Type?
Burger?
Durty burger?
Durty burger & chips?
You know this.‘
Dun Laoghaire is so darn cute. A seaside town. I love the smell of salty sea air, gets the appetite going.
We went to Miami. I have no idea why it’s called Miami and it’s been there donkey’s years. I guess back in the day it was rather exotic to call a place Miami. It’s about as Miami as I am black.
But the chips were good! Proper home-​made chips. Staffed by Italian Irish so you know it’s gonna be good. The interior is an old-​school diner. I got the Miami King burger, my friend got the quarter pounder.
My King looked like a servant next to hers… Odd and equally offensive, I wanted to be the King for a moment. The burger was decent but the chips were good! Simple comfort food.
They do not take cards!!!

Not my favourite chipper, not by a long shot but what the Miami Café lacks in quality it makes up for it in timing… many a time i have been cold hungry and tired. with little will to do anything but go home, and like a shining beacon of glory on the side of the road the Miami Café appears with chips to be eaten and coke to be drank. Something to warm the hands too because they are always steaming hot.
The chips are a little on the thin side but i thinik it gives them character. Once or twice i have opted to sit in this Café since it does offer the chance to sit down and eat your fod from a plate. Its only at this point that i think the place takes a bit of a nose dive… chipper look best from a bag… because it isnt the most appealing thing in the world. It should stay in the bag. When i recieved my greasy chips and burger on a plate… i wasn’t too impressed.
Ah well… good to nip in for a bite on the way somewhere else. but probably not the best place to eat.

The Miami has been around for years, like Bobby Robson, and it’s had a bit of a checkered past, like Bobby Robson. Formally one of the finest chippers in Dublin, the Miami went down hill for a few years at the start of the noughties. Thankfully, the rot was stopped and she’s now returned to her best.
Personally though, I think € 2.50 is a bit steep for a bag of chips. And I prefer mine a bit thicker cut anyway. But I suppose that’s the premium they have to charge for being on the mainstreet.
There is one other thing they have in common with Bobby Robson, the madness. There’s a sign on the back wall telling us that the Miamis poultry is supplied by a company called Pidgeon Ltd. I asked yer man about it but he was as confused as I was.