Yuca

501 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Phone: 305.532.9822

Hours: Sun - Thur (6pm - 10pm), Fri - Sat (6pm - Midnight)
Cuisine: Cuban
Appetizers: from $9, Entrees: from $16

Online reservations are not necessary. To reserve a table, call the restaurant directly. When calling, please mention that you found them on Miami Beach 411.

Restaurant menu

Appetizers

Yuca Garden Greens
Fresh picked farmer's greens tossed with a very caribbean guava vinaigrette and farmer's cheese

Doña Glorias Frijoles Negros
A rich cuban black bean soup, served with a hot rice pancake, sour cream and chopped scallions

Gazpacho Sobe
Iberian style chilled soup made with garden ripe tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Drizzled with a light cilantro oil

Cesta De Empanadas
Our housemade empanadas filled with various beef, chicken and seafood picadillos, served in a basket with jalapeño chimichurri dipping sauce

Lobster Croquettes
Crisp florida lobster croquettes set on palm leaf with a sweet and spicy pineapple salsa, painted with a palette of dipping sauces

Tamale De Caracol
Spiced bahamian conch served in a traditional steamed cuban fresh corn tamale served with a piquant conch escabeche

Famous Seafood Puteria
Fresh local fish, shrimp and calamari, sautéed with white wine, tomatoes and capers, presented in a flowering plantain basket with avocados and imported black olives

Sugar Cane Skewered Guava Shrimp
Caramelized with a guava-chili glaze and served on west indian sweet potato cakes

Yuca Ceviche Del Salvaje
Yuca's ceviche of fresh grouper, shrimp, calamari, octopus and lobster forged in ginger-lime marinade and laced with scotch bonnet pepper

Tasajo
A yuca original. Ripe sweet plantains wrapped around a savory cured beef filling, served with an herbal salsa verde and sour cream

Coco De Camarones
Large shrimp sautéed with chorizo and coconut milk in a ripe green coconut

Steamed Little Neck Clams
Farm raised little neck clams steamed in yuca black bean broth with bits of chorizo, fresh basil, garlic and cilantro, topped with a crisp brandade cake

Spanish Piquillo Peppers
Roasted spanish piquiilo peppers filled with chorizo and porcini mushrooms and served with a creamy cabrales cheese sauce

Entrees

Guava BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Yuca's famous spicy guava bbq baby back ribs presented on crisp yuca con mojo fries and a cool chayote cole slaw

Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Marinated pork tenderloin finished with a rioja wine reduction and served with a congri rice and a ripe avocado ensaladita

Churrasco
Grilled marinated skirt steak on garlic mashed potato with pico de gallo and jalapeño chimichurri

Yuca Rellena
A vegetarian's delight. Steamed yuca filled with a truffle scented wild mushroom picadillo. Served on sauteed fresh spinach with two vibrant vinaigrettes of beet and carrot

"South Beach" Snapper
Crisp, semi-boneless and filled with a crazy avocado and jalapeño rice, topped with a relish of sweet and hot peppers and chili-garlic sofrito

Tuna Chino-Latino
Tuna marinated in an oriental dressing, crusted with yuca and seared rare with a light salad of watercress, yuca, black olives, avocado and a peruvian style yellow pepper dressing

Pepita Crusted Grouper
Fillet of grouper crusted with green pumpkin seed and cumin. Served on a catalan style bacalao cake with a sweet and spicy poblano pepper sauce

Rabo Encendido
Tender slow braised oxtail in a fiery rioja wine sauce with roast garlic and yuca mash, accompanied by a sweet plantain and ginger flan

Ajiaco De Mariscos
A steaming tropical presentation of lobster, shrimp, clams, scallops and mussels in a delicious caribbean stew, drizzled with cilantro oil, served with a spicy crab enchilado empanada

Plantain Coated Dolphin
Original plantain coated dolphin served on sweet plantain fufu with seasonal vegetable-roast pepper pistou and tamarind tartar sauce

Mar Y Tierra
Tenderloin of beef gratineed with spanish cabrales cheese on lobster mash with grilled lobster tail and truffled rioja wine sauce, accompanied by serrano wrapped asparagus

Onion & Yuca Crusted Rack of Lamb
Pan roasted rack of australian lamb crusted with toasted yuca and caramelized onions on malanga-goat cheese mash with a black bean and red wine reduction sauce

Pollo Criollo
Grilled half chicken, marinated in tropical citrus juices served with a citrus vinaigrette on fufu with plantain chips and avocados

Grilled Chilean Salmon
Grilled fillet of chilean salmon served with a nutty japonica black rice and a light mango mustard sauce, finished with a garlic-tomato concasse

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