The Top 100 Restaurants Near Flybridge
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Rank 4. 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 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. 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 7. 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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Rank 8. Florie's Bar
Southern French Cocktail Bar
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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 10. Maass
Open-Fire New American
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Rank 11. 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 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
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Rank 12. Café Boulud
French
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Rank 13. The Katherine
New American
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Rank 16. Peter Pan Diner
American
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Rank 18. Louie Bossi
Comfort Food Italian
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Rank 19. Mykonos
Greek
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- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Clay Conley
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Clay Conley
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Rank 22. Il Mulino New York
Southern Italian
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Rank 25. Awash Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
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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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- 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 37. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 38. Old Heidelberg Restaurant
Old-School German
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Rank 40. 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 42. Queen of Sheeba
Ethiopian
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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 49. 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 51. PERL by Chef IP
Mediterranean Japanese
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Rank 52. 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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Rank 57. Lido Restaurant at The Surf Club
Coastal Italian
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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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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 60. 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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Rank 62. Makoto
Japanese
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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 66. Chayhana Oasis
Uzbek Middle Eastern
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Rank 67. 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 70. 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 75. 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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Rank 76. Phuc Yea
Vietnamese
Red lanterns wrap a concrete compound on Biscayne that runs a full-time DJ alongside its pho, because why not. This Vietnamese restaurant in the MiMo district leans into the party without letting it eat the kitchen, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the kitchen holds its own. The food is big-portioned and boldly seasoned, built to share across a loud table. Someone nearby will almost certainly start singing.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Restaurant (MiMo/Little River) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Chicken Sandwich · Best of Miami New Times
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A gilded woolly mammoth by Damien Hirst anchors the courtyard outside, and the gold-domed dining room inside doesn't exactly dial it down. This hotel restaurant at the Faena runs a short menu that pulls from across Asia, loosely interpreted, with dishes that move between sweet, savory, and spicy in the same bite. The kind of place where the room is doing a lot of work, and the food quietly keeps pace.
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- Time Out The 10 best steaks in the world
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Romantic Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 80. Le Jardinier Miami
French
Tucked into Miami's Design District among the fashion boutiques, this French fine dining room holds a Michelin star and reads exactly like its neighborhood: sleek, considered, and a little pleased with itself in the best way. The seasonal menu leans light for the category, big flavors without the weight that usually comes with a three-hour dinner. The vegetable-forward cooking is the point here, not a concession to it.
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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 82. Hakkasan Miami
Cantonese
Getting to this moody Cantonese fine dining room means running the gauntlet of the Fontainebleau lobby, a spectacle of beach bodies and night owls that does nothing to prepare you for the dark, clubby calm inside. Ornate wooden slat dividers and sleek marble tables set the scene, the music keeps the bass low and steady, and the kitchen leans hard into high-quality seafood alongside Cantonese classics like Peking duck with all its crêpes and hoisin.
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Rank 83. Mandolin Aegean Bistro
Mediterranean
The blue door and whitewashed facade in Miami's Design District look like someone shipped a Greek island courtyard over wholesale, and the interior mostly confirms it: mature trees, orchids, and ceiling fans shading wood tables outdoors. This mezze-heavy Mediterranean bistro earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand on small plates, baked feta, and grilled fish, with house bread arriving in little paper bags. The honey pie with salted shortbread crust is the reason to save room.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 84. Walrus Rodeo
Wood-fired New American
The team behind Boia De runs this wood-fired New American spot a few doors down, with no gas stove in sight. What's surprising is that vegetables do most of the heavy lifting: the lasagna sheets are made from mustard greens, and the menu treats produce with the same care you'd expect from a proper steakhouse. Pizza and some meat round things out, but the room is casual enough that kids and couples share tables without anyone feeling out of place.
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 85. Michael's Genuine
New American
The courtyard at this Design District gastropub has been full since before the neighborhood had boutiques worth shopping in. Michael Schwartz's wood-fired, farm-sourced menu holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and landed a New York Times best-of list, which hasn't made the regulars any harder to find. Concrete floors, a good bar, and a crowd that ranges from deal-closers to friend-catchers keep the room feeling like somewhere rather than somewhere to be seen.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Michael Schwartz
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Michael Schwartz
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Rank 90. Stubborn Seed
Contemporary New American
The glass-fronted kitchen puts the cooking on full display at this sleek, intimate fine dining spot on a busy Miami Beach corner. Jeremy Ford runs an ambitious tasting menu that pulls in Latin and Asian influences, and the kitchen supplies itself from its own organic farm in Redland, which is either admirable or showing off. Probably both. Michelin has given it a star, and the room fills accordingly.
- 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 91. Tâm Tâm
Vietnamese
There's a karaoke machine hidden somewhere in this Vietnamese restaurant near the county courthouse, and it tells you everything about the vibe. The team runs the place like a party they're throwing for you, with wings glazed in fish sauce caramel and tamarind ribs you can eat with your hands. No stilettos required, no DJ, no velvet rope. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on the New York Times' 25 best Miami restaurants list.
- Food & Wine Tam Tam Wings · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Argentine Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Midwest · Jason Rickard and Jordan Rickard
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Rank 94. Macchialina Taverna Rustica
Rustic Italian
- Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Romantic Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 97. 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 98. Clive's Cafe
Caribbean
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Caribbean Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 100. El Turco
Turkish
A glass-walled kitchen kiosk tiled in blue and white anchors this casual Turkish café tucked inside a shopping enclave, with most of the action happening at outdoor tables under old oak trees. The menu runs breakfast and mezze all day, with house-baked börek, manti, and egg dishes that lean on Turkish pantry flavors rather than brunch clichés. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a spot this unfussy and this good at what it does.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Mediterranean Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times