The Top 100 Restaurants Near Sushi by Scratch Restaurants
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Rank 1. 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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- 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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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- 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 2024 · Best Place to Dine with Dogs · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 13 Best Breakfast Restaurants
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Rank 10. 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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Rank 14. Koko
Mexican
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Rank 15. Le Bouchon Du Grove
French
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Rank 17. 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 18. 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 20. Bombay Darbar
Indian
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2025 · 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 23. 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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Rank 26. 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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Rank 27. 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 28. 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 31. 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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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 34. Frenchie's
French
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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. Bar Team – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 36. Tullio
Venetian Italian
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Rank 37. 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 38. Pisco y Nazca
Peruvian
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Rank 39. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 40. La Jamoteca
Spanish
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Rank 43. Luca Osteria
Italian
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Rank 46. Sexy Fish
Japanese
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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 48. 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 49. 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 50. Façade
Coffee
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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 52. 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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Rank 53. 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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Rank 55. Domaselo
Bakery
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Rank 56. SNDWCH
Italian-Inspired
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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 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 (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 61. 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 62. 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 65. Cafe Bonjour
French
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Rank 66. Old's Havana Cuban Bar & Cocina
Classic Cuban
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Cuban Sandwich · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2024 · Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 67. Ichimi Ramen Bar
Noodles
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Ramen · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Ramen · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 70. 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 71. Pascal's on Ponce
Contemporary French
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Rank 73. 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 75. Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita
International
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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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- 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 81. 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 85. Eating House
Argentinian Italian
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Rank 87. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 88. Caffe Abbracci
Italian
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Rank 91. 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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- 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 94. Old Lisbon Restaurant
Portuguese
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Rank 95. B Bistro + Bakery
European
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Rank 96. 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. Motek
Middle Eastern