The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Stage
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Rank 3. Chef's Counter at MAASS
Contemporary New American
Eight seats face an open kitchen inside the Four Seasons Fort Lauderdale, which is about as good a view as a tasting menu gets. The chef's team works through a contemporary New American menu that pulls from French technique and Japanese ingredients, with Florida slipping in where it belongs. A Michelin star keeps it honest. Dress accordingly, and maybe clear the next morning.
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Rank 4. Oceano Kitchen
Coastal American
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Jeremy and Cindy Bearman
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Rank 5. Evelyn's
Mediterranean
Sitting inside the Four Seasons Fort Lauderdale, this modern Mediterranean restaurant earns its own reason to show up, with a menu that pulls from Levantine cooking and slips in Floridian touches along the way. The room faces the pool and the Atlantic beyond it, which is either inspiring or distracting depending on your dining companion. The kitchen leans into spreads, skewers, and the kind of food that makes a long dinner feel easy.
- 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 6. Florie's Bar
Southern French Cocktail Bar
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Rank 7. Heritage
New York-style Pizza
A pizza shop in Flagler Village that's serious enough about pies to make squash blossom and burrata toppings feel obvious rather than showy. The menu leans New York-style, with a few pastas and salads rounding things out, but the crust is the point. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and regulars tend to negotiate hard over whether to save room for the olive oil cake. They should.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant (Fort Lauderdale) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 9. Larb Thai-Isan
Isan Thai
A tuk tuk parked in the back of a Fort Lauderdale strip mall sets the tone at this no-reservations Isan Thai restaurant, where the menu runs well past the usual curry-and-pad-thai circuit. The kitchen leans into the northeastern Thai repertoire, and when they ask how spicy you want it, they mean it as a real question. The Michelin Guide has taken notice, and the crowd filing in on a weeknight suggests word has been around for a while.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Thai Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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A handful of counter seats face an open kitchen where the team is quietly asking what Cuban food could be if it kept its roots and borrowed ideas from everywhere else. The Michelin-starred result is a tasting-counter experience that feels personal rather than performative, with most ingredients coming from South Florida farms and ranches. Expect refined, composed cooking: familiar flavors refracted just enough to stop you mid-bite.
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Rank 11. Nicholson Muir
Steakhouse
A gourmet butcher shop and steakhouse tucked into a beachy cottage is not the obvious pairing, but here we are. The chef runs a tight, meat-forward room where ribeyes go over a wood-fire grill and a multicourse omakase hands the whole evening over to the kitchen. The Michelin Guide has taken notice. Finish with the warm cookies and crème anglaise, which lands somewhere between dessert and a dare.
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Rank 12. Daniel's, A Florida Steakhouse
Steakhouse
Dark wood, banquette seating, and lighting low enough that everyone looks like they're closing a deal. Daniel's is a steakhouse on Federal Highway that plays the genre completely straight, which turns out to be exactly what Fort Lauderdale wanted. The menu is built for sharing, so bring people. A Floridian spin on oysters Rockefeller gets things moving, the steaks are cooked with care, and the corn pudding is not optional.
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Rank 13. Aioli
Bakery
An all-day bakery and café on South Dixie where the in-house bread pulls double duty, appearing in the breakfast sandwiches, alongside the soups at lunch, and leaving with you by the loaf on the way out. The menu shifts often, which keeps the regulars from coasting. Dinner options exist, though they're the take-home-and-reheat variety, which is either very convenient or very honest about how evenings in West Palm go. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 14. Palm Beach Meats
Wagyu Steakhouse
Half gourmet butcher shop, half casual wagyu restaurant, this West Palm spot earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand by applying one ingredient to almost every item on the menu, including the Nutella brownie. Japanese, Australian, and American wagyu shows up in a breakfast sandwich, a burger, lumpia, and a burrito with tots. The room is wood tables and caramel leather, relaxed enough that the "Nice to Meat You" sign lands without embarrassment.
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Rank 15. Maass
Open-Fire New American
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Rank 16. būccan
Contemporary New American
A short rib empanada with aji amarillo sauce has been the anchor of this Palm Beach restaurant's menu long enough that regulars would riot if it disappeared. Chef Clay Conley runs a contemporary American kitchen where crudos, pastas, and small plates rotate with the seasons, though a handful of signatures stay put. Half-orders of pasta let you try more than one, which is the kind of quiet generosity that keeps locals coming back.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
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Rank 17. Café Boulud
French
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Rank 18. The Katherine
New American
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The beer list is the twist: this omakase bar inside the Hilton West Palm Beach was opened by a Chicago brewer, and the pairings lean into craft ales the way a traditional house leans into sake. The sushi itself tilts Western, with garnishes, sauces, and a Floridian looseness that keeps things from feeling reverent. Dark, intimate, and priced accordingly. The kind of room where wagyu hand rolls arrive with croutons fried in beef tallow, and somehow that makes complete sense.
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Rank 22. Peter Pan Diner
American
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Rank 24. Louie Bossi
Comfort Food Italian
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Rank 25. Mykonos
Greek
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Clay Conley
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Clay Conley
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 34. Queen of Sheeba
Ethiopian
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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 43. Thanks To Harrison
Midcentury Cocktail Bar
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Rank 44. Old Heidelberg Restaurant
Old-School German
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Rank 45. Awash Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
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Rank 46. Il Mulino New York
Southern Italian
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Rank 48. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 50. Barra Callao
Peruvian
A strip-mall raw bar in North Miami Beach that you will absolutely drive past the first time. The menu runs about a dozen dishes, no starters, no desserts, just Peruvian seafood prep done with real focus: causas, ceviche, and beautifully cured fish with clean, bright sauces. Counter seating, a warm room, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand for the kind of cooking that doesn't need a dramatic backdrop to make its case.
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Rank 52. Hadekel 1
Israeli Middle Eastern Coffee Shop
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Named for the chef's grandmother, this Michelin-starred Israeli restaurant in North Miami pulls its menu from hyperlocal ingredients and rotates dishes often enough that running out of something is part of the deal. The chef's counter is where you want to be, watching Middle Eastern flavors get handled with quiet precision. The staff reads the room well enough to steer you through whatever's left, which turns out to be a feature, not a bug.
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Rank 61. The Surf Club Restaurant
New American
The amber-lit dining room inside a restored Art Deco landmark sets the mood before anyone opens a menu. Thomas Keller's Florida debut is a bistro with the feel of a very good private club, all plush banquettes and a handsome vintage bar. The Continental cooking leans into the nostalgia without disappearing into it, and the kitchen's sauces are quietly doing the heavy lifting. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 62. PERL by Chef IP
Mediterranean Japanese
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Rank 63. Cotoa
Latin American
Ecuadorian and Peruvian cooking meet in a North Miami restaurant where the room feels genuinely celebratory without trying too hard. Chef Alejandra Espinoza runs a menu that moves from coastal ceviches through braised stews and into cassava fritters, all of it vivid and warm in a way that matches the decor. A Michelin Selected restaurant that doesn't feel like it's holding its breath about it.
- The Infatuation #5 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times Best New Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 66. Asiatiko
Japanese Steakhouse
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Rank 68. 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
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 69. The Butcher’s Club
Steakhouse
Potato gratin baked inside a caramelized Vidalia onion shell is about as much as a steakhouse side needs to say for itself. The Butcher's Club sits inside PGA National Resort and leans into the golf-club-steakhouse pairing with no apology, running a classic menu of wagyu, bison, and Florida stone crab. Jeremy Ford's name is on the door, and the prices match the pedigree. Wear a collared shirt and bring someone else's expense account.
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Rank 72. Lido Restaurant at The Surf Club
Coastal Italian
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Rank 73. Edan Bistro
Modern Basque
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Basque Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Cocktail bites in a wood-paneled lounge come first, then you move to the intimate dining room for a multicourse contemporary menu that pulls ingredients from New Zealand, Key Largo, and wherever else the chef's attention has landed that season. Tristan Brandt holds a Michelin star here, and the room earns the quiet formality: unhurried, precise, the kind of fine dining that still believes in professional service without apology.
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Rank 77. Sunny’s Steakhouse
Steakhouse
Stone crab claws and bone marrow vinaigrette on a classic steakhouse menu is a pretty good summary of what Little River is doing right now. Sunny's leans into the old-meets-new Florida aesthetic hard, and the room hums with a crowd that dressed for it. The steaks come in shareable or individual cuts, the sides include russet potatoes fried in chicken schmaltz, and the martini program landed on Esquire's national list. The New York Times put it on their Restaurant List for 2025.
- Condé Nast Traveler The best new restaurants in the world
- Food & Wine The Top 15 US Restaurants
- Esquire Martini Service · The Best Martinis in America
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A shopping-center address in Palm Beach Gardens doesn't telegraph much, but this large, contemporary restaurant runs a genuinely globe-trotting menu under a chef whose Indian background keeps surfacing alongside duck confit egg rolls, shrimp and grits, and a solid burger. The paratha alone is a reason to order bread. It stays packed most nights, which makes sense once you realize almost nothing on the menu belongs to the same cuisine as anything else.
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Rank 79. Makoto
Japanese
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Rank 81. Sesame
Israeli Bakery
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Rank 83. Caracas Bakery
Venezuelan Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Jesus Brazon and Manuel Brazon
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bakery · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
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Paper lanterns, deep red booths, and a playlist that makes the room feel like a set from a film you can't quite place. Double Luck is a Chinese-American restaurant that began as a pop-up and earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand once it settled into a permanent home. The duck salad comes piled with crispy shredded duck over sesame cucumber, and the sweet and sour pork belly is the kind of dish that makes a cliché feel newly earned.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 85. Ogawa
Sushi
Ogawa earns its Michelin star as an omakase counter tucked into Little River, where the name means "small river" and the warm wood and bold art signal that someone thought hard about every inch of the room. The chef runs a tight procession of cooked courses before the nigiri arrives, and the cooked dishes alone make clear this isn't a standard sushi night out. Seafood flown in from Japan handles the closing argument. The beverage list is worth your attention too.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Miami New Times Best New Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Japanese Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 87. Taquiza
Mexican
Blue corn tortillas made from scratch, with corn sourced from small Midwest farms and nixtamalized in-house, are what this casual beachside taco spot in North Beach built its reputation on. The chef was early to the whole process in Miami, and the operation has since grown into a local institution. Palm trees, ocean air one block over, and salsas worth asking about, especially the charred jalapeño.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bagels (Broward) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 89. Chayhana Oasis
Uzbek Middle Eastern
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Rank 90. La Natural
Wood-fired Pizza
Wood-fired pizza in a Little River spot that feels like a party someone forgot to announce, concrete floors, dim lighting, and a natural wine list long enough to make you forget you came for the pizza. The pies come out of a wood-burning oven behind the bar with char that means it, and the crust cold-ferments for two days before it ever meets a topping. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand. Reservations are a good idea.
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Esquire #16 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 91. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon Miami
Modern French
The counter wraps around an open kitchen in the Miami outpost of Joël Robuchon's global fine dining brand, which holds two Michelin stars and brings the full Paris treatment, rosewood walls, leather chairs, tasting menus, to the Design District. The kitchen leans on Robuchon's classics while gesturing toward local flavors. This is special-occasion territory, dressed and priced accordingly, with the kind of service that makes you feel the bill was entirely your idea.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 93. Cote Miami
Korean Steakhouse
The neon-lit entrance hallway hits you with subwoofer bass before you've seen a single menu, which tells you exactly where the priorities lie. COTE is a Korean steakhouse in Miami's Design District, holding a Michelin star, where whole cuts of dry-aged beef are displayed like sculpture before they hit your tabletop grill. The servers know the room cold, the banchan is thoughtful, and the kimchi Wagyu paella has apparently earned its own fan club.
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Rank 96. El Bagel
Bakery
- Bon Appétit The Very Best Bagels in the US (Yes, Outside New York)
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bagels (Miami-Dade) · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 98. Itamae AO
Peruvian Japanese
- Food & Wine Best New Chefs · Nando Chang and Valerie Chang
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: South · Nando Chang
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
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- Time Out The 10 best steaks in the world
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times