Columbia - Nowatney

The oldest restaurant in Florida! Pretty cool on that point alone. Make reservations or you either will wait 30-45 minutes or get turned away at the door. I watched first hand how they literally just don't have enough staff since the pandemic to pack the place to full capacity. 1901 salad is a must. Cuban sandwich was second only to Versailles in Miami. Paella is excellent and worth the wait. Bread Pudding OMG phenomenal. Enjoy! and certainly enjoy the scenery, the place is pretty stunning.

This was a simply outstanding dining experience. Food and service was impeccable. We had the Cuban sandwich with the 1905 salad, Palomilla steak sandwich and the Pollo Manchego finishing with a lemon coconut cake with ice cream. Our server Enarxis F was so courteous and professional,explained a brief history of the building. He truly enhanced our dining. Haven’t seen this service in decades . Kudos to Enarxis!! , Thank you.

Food is really good. Muscles are amazing. Service is ok. We ordered tapas and entrees. The appetizer dishes never were cleared off the table and the tables are kind of small so that sucked. For the price of the food my expectation is a little higher.

I came here to this location due the recommendation of a friend from Orlando. I have to say I was surprised by what I found out . I ordered medium rare strip steak and it came with stuffed mushrooms and yellow rice and Salad half special and small soup cup. The soup and salad were perfect, and delicious. The steak come out and it was over cooked and they put this super salty melted white cheese on it, and it spoils the steak as it makes it over salty, really unbearably salty. The stuffed spinach mushrooms had the same issue to much salt and undercooked as you could taste the batter and it was cold. The yellow rice was dry and lacked moisture. Waited came to check on us, and all three of our party had the same experience. They kindly replaced our meal. We got the filet, plantains, and rice, this time the filet was not over salty, but def not Medium Rare, it's was well done, no pink In sight. Plantains we're perfect, the rice was over cooked dry and lacked any moisture. Felt crunchy due ti dryness. At this point it was a bust for us. Thankfully the gentleman who was the waiter also agreed that today the kitchen was having an very off day as we weren't the only table sending things back. He did bring us our a bread pudding, complimentary, and that was frankly the highlight of the meal. I would say service, location, and vibe was good, but for us this time food was sadly majorly lacking. I def think they had issue in their kitchen. I usually go to the St Augustine or Beach location. I expected the original location to be much better. Being a foodie I expected so much more.

It's like a bag of salt must have exploded in the kitchen. I ordered the combo plate(forget the name) so that I could try several items. My first bite was the empanada and that seemed a bit salty. Then I worked around the plate and every single item including the beans and rice were heavily over salted, to the point I could barely eat 20% of my plate. Luckily the bread they served was delicious and because I was obviously still hungry I ordered a bread pudding. Overall it was good, but I had to remove the entire top portion because the burn it. I had two others taste it and they agreed, can't eat the top. Strangest bread pudding that I have ever ordered, but again, the rest of it was tasty. Service was excellent. The building is very cool, but in the end we all go to eat and I can't eat food overloaded with salt. It's unfortunate.