The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Carmelas
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Rank 1. Krakatoa Indonesian Cuisine
Indonesian
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Rank 3. Thanks To Harrison
Midcentury Cocktail Bar
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 9. Il Mulino New York
Southern Italian
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Rank 10. Asiatiko
Japanese Steakhouse
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Rank 11. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 13. PERL by Chef IP
Japanese/Mediterranean
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Rank 14. Hadekel 1
Israeli
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Rank 21. Awash Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 22. Old Heidelberg Restaurant
Old-School German
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant to Come Back From the Dead · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Restaurant (Fort Lauderdale) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 28. Chayhana Oasis
Uzbek Middle Eastern
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Rank 32. Daniel's, A Florida Steakhouse
Steakhouse
Dark wood and banquette seating set the stage for a steakhouse that plays every classic note with precision—wagyu tartare and oysters give way to perfectly cooked beef, grilled asparagus, corn pudding. Built for groups and indulgence, Daniel's executes the familiar formula with enough competence that tradition feels earned rather than nostalgic.
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Rank 35. Sesame
Israeli Bakery
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Rank 37. Champagne Bar
Hotel Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 40. The Surf Club Restaurant
New American
The Surf Club wraps diners in Art Deco amber—vintage bar, plush banquettes, the careful glamour of a private club that happens to be open to guests. Thomas Keller's Florida debut trades innovation for precision: a crab cake gains spice and freshness, lobster thermidor finds new life through sauce, and the chocolate soufflé, when available, justifies its reputation.
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Rank 41. Mykonos
Greek
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Rank 42. Louie Bossi
Comfort Food Italian
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Rank 45. Cotoa
Ecuadorian Peruvian
Chef Alejandra Espinoza builds her North Miami dining room around Ecuador's rhythms and flavors, with warm light and curated music setting the tone. Mahi mahi arrives suspended in a silken coconut-ginger sauce with crisp watermelon radish; cassava croquettes and chicken tortellini follow with similar precision. The cooking feels generous without fuss, rooted in something real.
- The Infatuation 2025 · #5 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 47. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Modern French
In Miami's Design District, L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon assembles its signature counter kitchen beneath rosewood and leather, where a bread basket arrives before seared scallops in cilantro broth give way to lamb in eggplant cups. The execution is precise, the plating theatrical, and the final chocolate sensation justifies the pilgrimage.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 48. Lido Restaurant at The Surf Club
Coastal Italian
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Rank 49. Chef's Counter at MAASS
Contemporary
Perched at the kitchen's edge in the Four Seasons, Chef's Counter offers a ringside view of precise, ingredient-driven cooking that weaves French technique through Japanese staples and Florida produce. A single seared scallop or a bowl of koshihikari rice become small monuments to restraint and balance, each course whispering rather than shouting its ambitions.
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Rank 51. Pao by Paul Qui
Asian
Beneath a gold dome crowned with a Damien Hirst unicorn, Paul Qui's dining room commands the Faena with theatrical grandeur and a short menu that pivots across Asian influences with ease. Scallop aguachile with black lime and roasted bass with chili patis prove the place earns its architecture through cooking that swings from sweet to spicy without hesitation.
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Rank 52. Evelyn's of Fort Lauderdale
Mediterranean
Evelyn's occupies a Four Seasons perch where coastal Floridian touches inflect Levantine cooking—French onion labneh arrives with buckwheat lavash, pomegranate-glazed salmon comes balanced against key lime tzatziki. The pistachio mille-feuille, baklava by another method, suggests a kitchen that understands the pleasure of a dessert that justifies itself.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best New Restaurant (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 54. Sunny's
Steakhouse
A Little River steakhouse where art deco glamour meets casual Florida swagger, the room hums with the kind of crowd that makes you want to linger. The beef speaks for itself, but the bone marrow vinaigrette and schmaltz-fried potatoes suggest a kitchen unafraid of small luxuries.
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Esquire 2025 · Martini Service · The Best Martinis in America
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- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #70 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
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Rank 59. Tinta y Café
Cuban Coffee
- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #2 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Breakfast · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Tostada · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 60. COTE
Korean Steakhouse
A neon corridor thrums with bass as you enter this Korean steakhouse, where aged beef gleams in a display room like precious inventory. Simon Kim's team moves through the room with practiced ease, seasoning each dish with precision and guiding diners through cuts of marbled beef, stews, and a kimchi Wagyu paella that justifies the ceremony.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality Management
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Rank 61. NAOE
Japanese
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 65. ViceVersa
Pizza
Dark wood and emerald walls create a sultry cocoon inside the Elser Hotel's ViceVersa, where Neapolitan pizza shares billing with raw bar selections—royal red shrimp with cherry bomb relish, boldly seasoned Italian appetizers—and an affogato martini that collapses the boundary between dessert and drink.
- 50 Best 2026 · #46 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Esquire 2024 · Affogato Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 67. Stubborn Seed
Contemporary New American
Chef Jeremy Ford's corner restaurant commands attention with a glass-fronted kitchen and industrial-chic room where Latin and Asian impulses collide across an ambitious tasting menu. Celery root croquette with beef bacon jam gives way to ricotta gnudi with Manchego foam; a five-acre farm in Redland supplies much of the produce. The cooking trades in controlled risk—bold without losing itself.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #30 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
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Rank 69. Tâm Tâm
Vietnamese
A husband-and-husband team runs this Vietnamese supper club near downtown with no pretense and plenty of verve: fish sauce caramel wings, lamb lettuce wraps, tamarind pork ribs designed for fingers rather than forks, and a cashew cheesecake with passionfruit. There's a hidden karaoke machine too. Come as you are.
- Food & Wine 2025 · Tam Tam Wings · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 72. Café La Trova
Cuban
In Little Havana, Michelle Bernstein and Julio Cabrera have built a place where live music and layered history—Cuban and Miami-Cuban—animate the room as surely as the food. Lechon with tangerine mojo anchors a menu that swings between tradition and audacious improvisation, each plate landing with purpose.
- 50 Best 2025 · #82 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #42 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 73. Edan Bistro
Basque Spanish
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Basque Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 74. Makoto
Japanese
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Rank 77. Maass
Open-Fire New American
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Rank 79. Amara At Paraiso
Latin-Inpired
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Romantic Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 80. Zak The Baker
Bakery
A color-splashed storefront in Wynwood announces baker Zak Stern's return home, where Swedish and Israeli apprenticeships inform his kosher breads and pastries. Avocado toast and crispy fish on brioche draw steady crowds, but the seasonal concha—burnished, pillowed—justifies a visit on its own.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
- Time Out The best bakeries in America
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Rank 81. Caracas Bakery
Venezuelan Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Jesus Brazon and Manuel Brazon
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Manuel and Jesús Brazón
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bakery · Best of Miami New Times
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- Time Out The 10 best steaks in the world
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Romantic Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 83. Tambourine Room By Tristan Brandt
Contemporary
Inside the Carillon's wood-paneled lobby, Tambourine Room begins with cocktails before seating you in an intimate dining room designed for whispered conversation. Tristan Brandt's multicourse menu moves between continents—New Zealand venison, local snapper, porcelet with caviar—each plate finished with the precision of a jeweler.
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Rank 85. Mandolin Aegean Bistro
Mediterranean
A whitewashed courtyard rimmed with mature trees and orchids sets the scene at this Aegean bistro, where mezze and grilled fish sandwiches anchor a menu rooted in Turkish and Greek tradition. The creamy baked feta and honey pie with salted shortbread suggest a kitchen attuned to both restraint and pleasure.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Greek Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 86. Michael's Genuine
New American
A Design District mainstay where the well-heeled mingle with anyone seeking seasonal cooking executed with restraint. Michael Schwartz's kitchen works the wood-fired oven and house-made pastas with equal authority, while the lush courtyard—strung with fans and heat lamps—has become as much a fixture of Miami dining as the food itself.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Michael Schwartz
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Happy Hour · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 87. Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann
Argentine Steakhouse
Francis Mallmann's open-fire Argentine grill inside the Faena Hotel matches its theatrical leopard-print décor with beets buried eight hours under coals. Big proteins and a bustling bar sustain the intensity of the room.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 91. Hakkasan
Cantonese Chinese
You enter through the Fontainebleau's din into a darkened room of marble and carved wood screens, where bass pulses beneath the clatter of plates. Hakkasan pivots between Cantonese tradition—silken dumplings, lacquered duck—and lighter contemporary turns, scallops curried with lily bulb among them.
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Rank 92. Zitz Sum
Asian
Pablo Zitzmann's dumpling pop-up evolved into this Coral Gables ground-floor restaurant, where a Colombian chef fearlessly blends Asian and Italian influences. Dishes like charred cabbage with Fresno chili butter and shrimp har gow with tamarind-black garlic chutney prove the cooking's gutsy originality.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 94. Taquiza
Mexican
A former web developer grinds and griddles blue corn tortillas daily, sourcing grain from Midwest farms for tacos of melting lengua and fried mahi. Palm trees frame the North Beach counter where sharp salsas and ocean proximity justify the devoted following.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 95. La Natural
Wood-fired Pizza
Little River's La Natural draws crowds with wood-fired pies built on a cold-fermented crust, topped with everything from za'atar to burrata, in a concrete bunker lit like an underground party. The natural wine list and thoughtful starters—papaya with kumquat among them—suggest a pizzeria that takes its craft seriously.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant (MiMo/Little River) · Best of Miami New Times
- Esquire 2021 · #16 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 98. Macchialina
Italian
A cramped dining room of tufted leather and a covered patio draws locals nightly to this Italian spot. The kitchen excels at house-made pasta—silken spaghetti with tomato, cacio e pepe—while an Italian-forward wine list and infused grappas anchor the bar. Tiramisu arrives reinterpreted with dulce de leche and sea salt espresso granita, a small gesture toward Miami that feels earned.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Coffeehouse (Miami-Dade) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
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Rank 100. Shingo
Sushi
Chef Shingo Akikuni commands a 14-seat counter in Coral Gables with the ease of someone orchestrating an intimate dinner, his knife work decisive and his rice vinegar sharp. Japanese fish arrives in uniform slices, barely adorned with nikiri, the menu shifting with the seasons—recent specials have included Aomori tuna and matsutake chawanmushi.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Omakase · Best of Miami New Times