Butcher Shop Near Me in Palmetto Bay: A Cuban Counter on US-1

The Butcher Shop & Deli is an old-fashioned Cuban butcher counter in a strip mall at 14235 South Dixie Highway in Palmetto Bay, where US-1 runs through South Dade. Its Yelp listing gives hours of 7 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday and 8 am to 3 pm on Sunday. Anyone searching butcher shop near me in this corner of Miami-Dade usually ends up here for two reasons: a meat case run by a Cuban-trained butcher and one of the most decorated pan con lechon sandwiches in the county.

Owner Angel Torres learned to cut meat in Cuba's Oriente province, working beside his father and uncles. In 1967 he left the island without his parents, traveling through Madrid and New Jersey before settling in Miami, a story Miami New Times told in a 2015 profile of the shop. For years Torres drove to Hialeah slaughterhouses before dawn to pick out his own hogs, the habit that built the shop's name for pork.

New Times described the place in 2015 as a 36-year-old shop, and the food blog Burger Beast dates it to 1970, so it has been feeding Palmetto Bay for decades either way. In that 2015 piece, Torres's right-hand man David Matos, who started at the counter at 19, was still working beside him, and the kitchen was going through about 200 pounds of pork a day and baking its own bread.

The sandwich is the reason for the line. Roast pork is piled onto Cuban bread that is pressed until it turns thin and crackly, and the counter keeps squeeze bottles of the house mojo, which staff call mojito, for you to add as much garlic and sour orange as you like. Miami New Times named it Best Pan con Lechon in its Best of Miami 2016 issue, and Eater Miami put the shop on its Cuban sandwich map in 2023.

The praise has not faded. In January 2026, Miami New Times ranked the shop's pan con lechon sixth among Miami's most iconic Cuban dishes and noted that it costs less than $9 out the door at the counter. Delivery apps charge noticeably more for the same sandwich, so walking in is the better deal. A cafecito and a bag of chicharrones turn it into a full Miami breakfast or lunch.

Look past the pork sandwich and the hot line reads like a Cuban home kitchen. Chicharrones are fried in big batches and displayed by the register, honey-mojo ribs are a regular order, and rabo encendido, the slow-braised oxtail stew, has been a Wednesday special. Picadillo is the one to plan around: in 2015 New Times reported it was usually sold out by 1 pm, so go early if it is your target.

There is no menu board in the usual sense. Regulars order at the counter and either take food to go or sit at one of the few stools along the long counter on the wall, which makes the room feel like a narrow hallway at lunchtime. Credit cards are accepted. For Noche Buena and family parties, customers have ordered whole dinners for ten, and the Facebook page notes that the shop caters private parties.

The butcher side is practical rather than boutique. In 2015 the case held flap steaks for churrasco, vacuum-packed oxtail for stew and sides of smoked salmon, and Torres had moved to precut boxed meat rather than breaking down whole animals in the back. The delivery menu also lists a Butcher Box with five servings each of chicken breast, churrasco steak, ground beef and pork cutlets, a quick way to stock a freezer for a family.

If you cook Cuban at home, this is a useful counter for thin churrasco steaks, pork cutlets for pan-frying and oxtail for rabo encendido, with advice that comes from someone who grew up butchering hogs. Ask for the cut by its Cuban name, say how many people you are feeding, and the staff will portion it for you.

Timing your visit is simple once you know the hours. The doors open at 7 am Monday through Saturday and 8 am on Sunday, which makes this a breakfast stop as much as a lunch one: a pressed pork sandwich and a cafecito before work is a classic South Dade order. Sunday is the short day, with the counter closing at 3 pm, so save a late lunch for another day. If picadillo or rabo encendido is the goal, arrive in the late morning, ahead of the 1 pm sellouts New Times described, and leave the quieter afternoon for buying a few pounds of meat from the case.

The shop shares its strip of South Dixie Highway with errands you can stack. Sushi Maki is a short walk south at 14491 South Dixie Highway, and a Publix sits at 14601 South Dixie Highway for the rest of your grocery list. A Metrobus stop at SW 144th Street and US-1 is a few minutes on foot, and the South Dade TransitWay has stations at SW 136th Street and SW 152nd Street.

For a longer outing, Coral Reef Park at 7895 SW 152nd Street is about a mile away, and at least one regular writes that a run or a walk there ends with a pork sandwich at the counter. That pairing works especially well on a Sunday, when the shop closes at 3 pm and the park is busy with families through the morning.

The Butcher Shop & Deli, 14235 South Dixie Highway, Palmetto Bay, FL 33176. Hours on the Yelp listing: Monday to Saturday 7 am to 6 pm, Sunday 8 am to 3 pm. Order at the counter; take-out or a stool at the counter. Credit cards accepted. Updates on Instagram at @thebutchershopdeli. Pan con lechon under $9 in store. Go before 1 pm for picadillo and the hot line.