The Top 100 Restaurants Near Harry’s Smoke & Dough
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Rank 1. Harry’s Smoke & Dough
Miami-Style Barbecue
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
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Rank 2. Vice City Pizza
Hybrid
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Rank 3. FINKA Table & Tap
Peruvian/Cuban/Korean
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Mojito · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 4. Islas Canarias Restaurant
Classic Cuban
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Croquetas · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Cuban Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 13 Best Breakfast Restaurants
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Rank 5. Amerlia's 1931
Neo Cuban
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Croquetas · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 7. Pisco Y Nazca
Peruvian
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Rank 16. Vegan Cuban Cuisine
Vegan Cuban
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Rank 17. Madroño Nicaraguan Cuisine
Nicaraguan
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Rank 23. Apocalypse BBQ
Miami-Influenced Barbecue
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Hot Dog · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Dim Sum · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 27. Ghee Indian Kitchen
Indian
Niven Patel's suburban warehouse glows with mango wood and walls lined with spice jars—a room designed to match the boldness on the plate. Ghost pepper naan arrives puffed and crackling; Kerala lamb emerges from coconut broth fall-apart tender. Sourcing from his own farm, Patel works a tight menu of precisely calibrated heat and depth that belies the strip-mall setting.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mohamed Ali Alkassar and Niven Patel - Alpareno Restaurant Group
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Dim Sum · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 30. 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 32. SNDWCH
Italian-Inspired
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Rank 33. 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.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 34. 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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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 38. 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 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 39. 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 41. 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 43. 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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Rank 45. Shaddai Fine Lebanese Cuisine
Modern Middle Eastern
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Mediterranean Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 46. Sea Siam
Pan-Asian
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 48. 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 50. 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 51. Pisco y Nazca
Peruvian
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Rank 52. 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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Rank 53. 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
- Time Out The best bakeries in America
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
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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 57. 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 58. 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 60. 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 61. 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 63. Cafe Bonjour
French
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Rank 64. 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 67. 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 68. 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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- 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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- 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 74. 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 76. Sexy Fish
Japanese
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Suburban Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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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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- 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 80. 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 81. SNDWCH
Italian-Inspired
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Rank 82. 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 83. Las Arepas De Maria
Venezuelan
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Rank 84. Walrus Rodeo
Wood-fired New American
The team from Boia De sets up shop in a corner spot fueled entirely by wood fire, where vegetables claim surprising prominence on a playful menu. Carrot tartare with carrot top salsa and mustard green pasta sheets stuffed with lamb ragù show restraint and wit, while charred quail captures backyard barbecue at its best. It's casual enough for families, refined enough to matter.
- The New York Times 2024 · 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. Boia De
Contemporary Italian
Between a laundromat and medical center, a neon-pink door opens onto a forest-green dining room where chefs Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer blur Italian tradition with playful invention. Crispy polenta gives way to house-made pasta and veal sweetbreads spiked with jalapeño—food that asks what Italian cooking might become in Miami's hands.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 86. 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 88. 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 89. Pasta
Italian
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Restaurant (Wynwood) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 90. Beauty & the Butcher
Steakhouse
A gleaming central bar and floor-to-ceiling wine cellar frame this sizeable room, where the menu ranges from croquettes and crudo to pristine steaks, everything made in-house. The Caesar salad—a tower of gem lettuce, snow peas, and aged Parmesan—exemplifies how Beauty & the Butcher balances comfort, creativity, and refinement without strain.
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Rank 93. 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 94. Fiorito
Argentine-Inspired
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Midwest · Jason Rickard and Jordan Rickard
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Argentine Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 95. 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 97. 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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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Sports Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 99. 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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