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1950s Courtesy of Daniel Worth

1950s - The Painted Horse restaurant advertisement

11495 Biscayne Boulevard (US 1), Miami, Florida


Thanks to Daniel Worth for sending this image. All you can eat 99 cents, 49 cent for kids. Such a deal!


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Guest 25-Apr-2024 17:14
Went there once, 60's Miami, and you felt like a criminal with signs all around about wasting food! Very small portions so frequent waits to reorder but I guess it saved wastage.
The desert ice cream was the smallest scoop ever seen, like a well rounded tea spoon.
Definitely didn't go back.
Guest 25-Mar-2019 18:12
I remember The Painted Horse in Orlando. My family lived in Merritt Island and drive over often just to eat at this restaurant I think about it a lot. I loved the purple rice with raisins and also the Swedish meatballs. I often wonder what happened to this restaurant. Does anyone have any of the recipes from there?
Guest 27-Aug-2017 22:17
The Painted Horse in Miami was my most favorite restaurant of all time! My parents and I ate there many times in the 1950's and 1960's until we had to move away in 1962.
Pat s 20-Jul-2017 23:27
My mom used to work here . I would go to work with her and they would let me cut up veggies for the salad bar . I remember they gave away little red painted horses
Aubrey 19-Jun-2017 03:24
Mom and dad took us there quite often. We all loved it. I remember the fly strips hanging from the ceiling.. I googled this because I was thinking about it. about it. I remember the meatballs and getting salads.
Jim 11-Oct-2016 16:31
The Painted Horse was on Colonial Drive in Orlando, seems like it was near the Colonial Mall somewhere. I remember going there in the 60's.
Kim 16-Aug-2014 17:00
We always went to the one in Orlando, FL when I was a child. We went mostly on Sunday all the family would meet there. Somehow there was always an extra chair and my Uncle would tell the waitress that it our invisible family member Harvey. Just a childhood memory.
Guest 18-Nov-2013 18:47
my sisters and mom worked there. margaret and mom waited tables and anna was hostess. my dad owned window mart next to smittys hardware.
carey gigi 05-Nov-2013 20:28
We have two of those painted horse's one red and one blue,actually looking at them right now in our china cabinet, bought them in 1969 the sunday of the Moon landing.
Sheila 02-Feb-2013 20:18
I wonder what happened to all those Painted Horses they had for sale. My family went there when we were kids in the 60's and my Mom always wanted to buy some. She never did though. All we could eat dessert! Yum...
steve c, 16-Sep-2012 11:43
Went there often as a child in the 60's with my parents. It was such a treat as we rarely ate out. What i remember most was the endless swedish meatballs and those colorfull jello salads. I dont know if the food was really any good, but in my childs memory it was the best. Of cource, i once said to my baby brother ,while rubbing my bloated belly that my meal at White Castle "was the best meal i ever had" That to the dismay of my grandmother who truely was a fabulous cook.
Randy 17-Mar-2012 06:27
Does anyone wonder what ever happened to restaurants like this? I could recite a list of em, all seem to have food so much better than today's restaurants. Or is it time that just makes things better from the past? Dining out was a big thing in my family because as some have commented it was not done often. Yet the names of those places just fall off of my tongue as if we just ate there. Funny, for all the names that we know here- Tylers, Corky's, Wolfees, the cafeterias, etc., the one place I remember the most is a little diner on Seventh Ave. in N. Miami. It was run by a young couple. I remember the hamburgers were out of this world and the cokes were fountain cokes, made from syrup.
John Bronson 22-Jun-2011 04:24
My parents would 'treat' us on a Sunday after church, by taking us to The Painted Horse. Back in the 60's it was a rarity for us to eat out, so when we did it was an event. I remember the lines outside the door, under some sort of arbor/trellis with flowers on it. The smell of the food was always wafting outside and the anticipation was almost unbearable(as a kid). The food was fantastic and since all you can eat, I remember my dad and uncle having to loosen their belts on the way home. Does anyone remember that the Ivan Tors Studio was just down the road? He was the producer of the Sea Hunt and Flipper TV series, among others.
John Bronson 21-Jun-2011 14:59
My parents would 'treat' us on a Sunday after church, by taking us to The Painted Horse. Back in the 60's it was a rarity for us to eat out, so when we did it was an event. I remember the lines outside the door, under some sort of arbor/trellis with flowers on it. The smell of the food was always wafting outside and the anticipation was almost unbearable(as a kid). The food was fantastic and since all you can eat, I remember my dad and uncle having to loosen their belts on the way home. Does anyone remember that the Ivan Tors Studio was just down the road? He was the producer of the Sea Hunt and Flipper TV series, among others.
Sherry Gandy 03-Feb-2011 00:51
I worked for the painted horse in orlando, florida around 1970. Anyone else work their then.
Lisa 04-Oct-2010 18:53
My parents took me there as a child. It is hard to believe that after all these year I can still remember the purple rice with raisins. I have never seen it anywhere else and I remember loving it. Wish I could find the recipe. I would love to bring back the memory of a simple stress free world.
Guest 22-Mar-2010 17:52
JB - I also went to the Orlando restaurant as a child. Do you remember the address? Thanks DKM douglas.k.manuel@lmco.com
JB 15-Aug-2009 19:08
My Mom worked at The Painted Horse in Orlando, Florida in the early 1960's. I have several of the painted Horses. The Tapioca was the one thing I remember eating there. I also remember that they had a big map of the World where you could mark with a push pin where you were from.
Debbie 03-Aug-2009 16:35
Same story.... went there many times as a kid. I remember the wishing well. And the swedish meatballs.... Anybody have the recipe? Thanks for the memory...
Buzz 30-May-2009 16:16
I lived in North Miami as a kid from 66-71. We ate there many times but I only remember carrot salad with raisins, some kind of green and orange jello salad and that the place was not brightly lit. We never left there hungry that's for sure.
I remember eating Christmas dinner there in 1969, I was 7 yrs. old and we were staying in a motel across the street. We had just been kicked out of our house, what memories.
Thanks for the post, when did they close down and what's there now?
Randy 19-Jan-2009 05:41
My family used to eat there often. I had an uncle who loved the place and anytime we all went out to eat he would always suggest the Painted Horse. My favorite was the Swedish Meatballs and I still long for the orangeaide. And yes, we would throw a few pennies in the well.
alvin lederer 20-Aug-2007 03:32
I own one of these paper thin postcards. my brother was a cook in the kitchen and I often visited him. I remember the wishing well in front with all the coins in it.
Guest 21-Jul-2007 17:40
My mom used to take me and my sister there when my dad was working the afternoon shift ,she told my dad how wonderful the food was, and the first and only time my dad went there with us the food was awful and I mean really awful.