La Crema Food and Grill — Restaurant in Doral

This morning I brought four visiting relatives to La Crema Food & Grill. It was wall‑to‑wall customers, yet the host still found us a table in under ten minutes—credit where it’s due. Our server, Dorka, was flawless: calm, razor‑sharp, and genuinely hospitable. She’s the kind of pro every restaurant dreams of hiring. Then management flushed the whole experience down the drain. Halfway through breakfast a couple waltzed in with a mid sized dog—no service‑animal vest, no mobility aids, no medical gear, just a living accessory. Staff seated them but they invited the dog onto a bench. In a shoebox‑size dining room that put fur and dander at face level with paying patrons. I love dogs, but pet worship has limits: a restaurant seat is for humans, full stop. If someone’s anxiety is so fragile they can’t part with Scruffy for forty‑five minutes, the solution is simple—learn to cook at home. Management’s silence was deafening. One firm, courteous reminder—“Pets stay outside unless they’re bona‑fide service animals”—would have preserved everyone’s comfort. Instead, the message was: personal whims outrank public hygiene and basic courtesy. Until this place enforces a strict service‑animals‑only policy—and keeps pets on the floor, never on furniture—I’m out. Stellar staff can’t compensate for leadership that lets “emotional support” theater override...

After having an early morning site visit for work at one of the concrete plants nearby - and concrete splashes on pants don't tend to fall within restaurant dress codes - I was able to stop at La Crema for a tasty and substantial lunch. For one, service was pleasant and attentive despite me not being particularly well dressed.

With an emphasis on Venezuelan food, La Crema is a casual spot for Latiin comfort food - think arepas, cachapas, sandwiches, etc. Since I had been up from 530AM for work, I was starving. After seating, I ordered their Milanesa de Pollo a caballo. This was a deliciously large filet of breaded chicken with a moderate amount of breading and fried over easy eggs that took up most of the plate. With a little bit of white rice and about 3 perfectly crispy tostones, my hunger was most certainly satiated! I did add a latte to caffeinate and warm up for good measure.

I'd like to come back and try some of their desserts and a few other dishes. Conveniently located just off the 25th street exit of the Palmetto, it has a very good location with...

Quite disappointed. I was starving and passing by the brazilian store next door and decided to order take out from La Crema. I ordered a Parrillita and a bottle of water. The picanha’s fat pad didn’t even see the grill’s fire, and the meat was hard as a rock at a Medium-Rare temperature and really salty. The morcilla was‘t te best either. As sides it had yucca with mojo and a coleslaw salad. If the meat was poorly prepared the sides were a bit worse. The salad, that contained only coleslaw and shredded carrots was topped with two spoonfuls of... mayonnaise...?! The yucca was missing the mojo and instead had some dry garlic flakes on top of what seemed like microwave boiled yucca. I wasn’t expecting the meal to taste like it came from a fine cuisine restaurant. But wow was I surprised to see that a restaurant could serve food so poorly prepared.

I wish i had eaten this home and could’ve tried and salvage meat a little. The portion was abundant, and that’s why the two stars.

Ps: I just noticed the...