The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near The Bar
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Rank 2. 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
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Rank 4. 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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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #57 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
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Rank 7. Vinya Table
New American
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Allegra Angelo
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Wine List · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 8. Cafe Demetrio
Viennese Coffee
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Rank 10. Luca Osteria
Italian
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Rank 11. Macondo Coffee Roasters
Columbian
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Rank 13. Pisco y Nazca
Peruvian
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Rank 15. Tullio
Venetian Italian
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Rank 16. Façade
Coffee
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Rank 20. Chocolate Fashion
French Bakery
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Rank 21. Motek
Mediterranean
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Breakfast · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Tostada · Best of Miami New Times
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 24. Frenchie's
French
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Rank 25. La Jamoteca
Spanish
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Rank 26. Bachour
Bakery
An industrial space framed by a rose arch opens into Chef Antonio Bachour's bakery theater, where counter seating faces the glass-enclosed kitchen. Jewel-toned macarons, pistachio-striped croissants, and flan-filled confections that mimic fruit sit beside crab tostones and croquettes—a studied balance between lunch and dessert.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef · Antonio Bachour
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Rank 27. Eating House
Argentinian Italian
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Rank 29. Ichimi Ramen Bar
Noodles
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Ramen · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Ramen · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 31. Tinta y Cafe
Cuban
A booklined café tucked into Coral Gables where coffee and Cuban sandwiches anchor the mood. The patria—their version of the Cubano, layered with pork, ham, mustard, and pickle—arrives pressed and golden; deep-fried croquetas and guava pastries complete the picture. Midcentury furniture and palm-shaded tables give the place a lived-in ease that suits its unpretentious charm.
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Rank 32. Kojin 2.0
Contemporary Japanese
Pedro and Katherine Mederos return with a menu that marries Japanese sensibility to contemporary technique—foie toast on rye gives way to bone marrow panna cotta with house-made coffee shoyu, goat cheese cavatelli in butternut squash, creamsicle ice cream. The cooking is unafraid of contrast, balancing risk with genuine approachability across tasting menus and a la carte alike.
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Rank 34. Caffe Abbracci
Italian
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Rank 35. Pascal's on Ponce
Contemporary French
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Rank 43. Versailles
Cuban
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Cuban Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 44. Tina in the Gables
French
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Brunch · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 45. 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 2023 · Best Cocktails · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant for a First Date · Best of Miami New Times
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 46. 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 48. Vicky Bakery
Cuban Bakery
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Rank 49. Domaselo
Bakery
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Rank 50. 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 51. 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 2025 · Best Martini · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Breakfast · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 53. 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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Rank 54. 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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- 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 57. 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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Rank 58. Recoveco
Contemporary
In this South Miami wine bar, chefs Maria Teresa Gallina and Nicolas Martinez compress bold technique into a tiny space with seasonal small plates that defy convention. The chicken liver mousse with peppercorn speculaas and starfruit jam sets the tone for cooking that transforms humble ingredients with precise, unexpected flavor.
- Food & Wine 2025 · Chicken Liver Mousse · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Maria Teresa Gallina and Nicolas Martinez
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Rank 59. 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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Rank 60. NAOE
Japanese
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 61. 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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- 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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In Coral Gables, Daniel's Miami strips the steakhouse down to craft and restraint, trading grandeur for the clarity of dry-aged beef and Florida's own vegetables. Thomas Angelo's vision feels grounded in place rather than formula, a restaurant that knows when to stop talking and start listening.
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Rank 66. 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. Erba
Italian
- Esquire 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Chef · Best of Miami New Times · Niven Patel
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best New 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. 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 69. 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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A narrow storefront in Little Havana wrapped in emerald tile and brass, where a perpetual line waits for Cuban sandwiches built on house-made bread around week-marinated pork. The lechon—shredded meat dressed in garlic-cilantro aïoli—arrives heavier but no less compelling than its grilled counterpart.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Cuban Sandwich · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 73. La Camaronera
Cuban
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 74. Koko
Mexican
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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 81. Krüs Kitchen
Seafood
Glass and daylight define this Coconut Grove space, where Chef Sebastián Vargas operates an upstairs market-driven kitchen sourcing from small farms alongside organic wines. Grilled prawns with saffron sabayon and smoked coconut rice with wild-caught crab showcase a confident hand with seafood, while a percentage of proceeds supports the chef's nonprofit initiatives.
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Place to Dine with Dogs · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 13 Best Breakfast Restaurants
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #30 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
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Rank 85. Panamericano Bar
Pan-American Cocktail Bar
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Rank 86. Sexy Fish
Japanese
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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 Brewery (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 92. Macondo Coffee Roasters
Columbian
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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 95. Happy Wine Miami
Spanish
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Rank 96. El Mago de las Fritas
Old-School Cuban
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 97. Matsuri
Sushi
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Japanese Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 98. 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 100. El Carajo
Spanish
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Inexpensive Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants