The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Crandon Park Tennis Center
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Allegra Angelo
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Wine Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Wine List · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 3. 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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Rank 4. 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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Rank 5. Gramps Getaway
Tropical
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Outdoor Dining · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Gay Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Best Waterfront Dining
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Rank 6. LPM Restaurant & Bar
French
- 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. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 7. 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 8. Joe's Stone Crab
Seafood
A lunch counter from 1913 that has outlasted Miami Beach's transformation into a gleaming city, Joe's Stone Crab remains the place where locals and tourists queue for cracked claws, chilled and dipped in mustard sauce, followed by tart, custard-tinged key lime pie. The crowds suggest something durable and true about the restaurant's hold on the city's appetite.
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Mac & Cheese · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Fried Chicken · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. 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
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
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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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Rank 11. 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 12. 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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Rank 13. Sexy Fish
Japanese
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Rank 14. Panamericano Bar
Pan-American Cocktail Bar
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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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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Chicken Sandwich · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Bar (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 20. NIU Kitchen
Spanish
NIU Kitchen is a darkly stylish downtown Miami spot serving Spanish tapas with theatrical flair—charbroiled oysters branded tableside with hot coals, branzino tartare, paellas. The cooking balances big flavors and quality ingredients with creative restraint, best experienced as a group around glossy concrete floors.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 21. Mimi Chinese
Chinese
- Time Out The best Chinese restaurants in America
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Chinese Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 23. The Gibson Room
American
A black-walled room lit by candles and a glowing bar forms an unlikely stage for Michael Beltran's uncompromising cooking. Anchovy mousse fills the Caesar croutons; handmade agnolotti cradle venison bolognese; the schnitzel arrives plate-wide with salsa verde and a fried egg. The menu refuses easy categorization, and so does the place itself.
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant for a First Date · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Cocktails · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 24. Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita
International
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Rank 26. Ariete
French-influenced New American
Beltran's Coconut Grove dining room marries new American cooking with classical French technique, its dimly lit patio draped in greenery. The tasting menu showcases his gift for creative combinations and silky sauces, from fluke with conch escabeche to venison tartare with bone marrow sabayon.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Michael Beltran
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Rank 28. Elcielo
Colombian
An open kitchen and backlit bar frame chef Juan Manuel Barrientos' elevated Colombian cooking, where tableside theater—charcoal buñuelos with black truffle, a "Tree of Life" bread service—matters as much as the food itself. The progression unfolds through small bites and palate cleansers designed to heighten each course, a deliberate architecture of flavor and spectacle.
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Rank 29. Estiatorio Milos
Greek Seafood
The gleaming ice case in back—a walk-through showcase of the day's catch—tells you everything about Estiatorio Milos, where the kitchen's confidence in its ingredients means little theatrics are needed. Bigeye tuna arrives with yuzu kosho and dill; whole fish emerge from the salt crust; lobsters are simply grilled. It's a place where the seafood speaks, and South Beach listens.
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 32. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 35. The Den
Sushi
Behind a sliding door in a hotel dining room, a blond cypress counter frames the stage for meticulous sushi craft. Fish arrives from Japanese markets multiple times weekly, sliced with unhurried precision and paired with gentle innovations—uni soy sauce, miso-dotted octopus—while the itamae trade formality for genuine warmth and accommodation.
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Rank 37. Palma
Contemporary
A narrow concrete box in Little Havana where a five-person team executes an inventive, frequently changing tasting menu with impressive efficiency. Grilled baby corn wrapped in aged sirloin and roasted-plantain brioche with coconut butter justify the spare, candlelit setting.
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant (Little Havana) · Best of Miami New Times
- 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 Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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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 45. Motek
Mediterranean
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best New Restaurant (Miami-Dade) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 49. Chug's Diner
Cuban
A spare storefront in Coconut Grove where Chef Michael Beltran drives a Cuban kitchen at breakneck pace, all dangling plants and crowded booths. The oxtail ajiaco arrives deep and restorative; sandwiches tower on pillowy Cuban bread; pastelitos with guava and cream cheese flake apart warm in your hands. Speed and care don't usually coexist, but they do here.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Inexpensive Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Martini · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 52. Zeru Miami
Basque Spanish
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Basque Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Spanish Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best New Restaurants
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- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #6 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Pizza · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 55. Prime 112
New American
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Martini · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 56. B Bistro + Bakery
European
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Rank 57. Los Félix
Mexican
In a Coconut Grove dining room of natural materials and careful acoustics, Chef Sebastian Vargas builds Mexican cuisine around heritage corn and local seafood—grouper from Key West grilled in banana leaf with hazelnut emulsion, corn cake with crab and charred plantains. Restraint and ingredient quality are the points.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Esquire 2023 · Cold AF Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 63. El Carajo
Spanish
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Inexpensive Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Barbecue · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 68. Motek
Middle Eastern
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Rank 69. Café Bastille
French Coffee
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Rank 70. Rusty Pelican
Miami
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Rank 72. El Bagel
Bakery
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bagels (Miami-Dade) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Eater Miami’s 13 Best Breakfast Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Dive Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 78. Akash Miami Beach
Modern Indian
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Dive Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 80. Cotoletta
Milanese Italian
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant (Coconut Grove) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 81. La Leggenda Pizzeria
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 82. Macondo Coffee Roasters
Columbian
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Bar Food · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 86. Kaori
Asian
Kaori elevates Asian fusion above Miami's baseline with precise, unfussy cooking—chicken liver pâté meets plantain shokupan, bluefin tuna sings in coconut-lime. A two-story Brickell room of concrete and wood hums with quiet confidence, DJ booth and all.
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant (Brickell) · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. 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 89. A La Folie Café
French Coffee
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Rank 91. Flanigan's
Seafood
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Sports Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Easy to miss on a Little Havana corner, this cramped Thai kitchen runs without reservations but with impressive velocity. Chef Veenuthri Trisransri moves between Northern specialties and accessible standards—crispy or steamed dumplings, a silken khao soi—with the confidence of someone who doesn't need to announce herself.
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Thai Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 96. Koko
Mexican
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