The Top 100 Places to Drink Near Tanka
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Rank 1. ViceVersa
Neapolitan Pizza Cocktail Bar
Dark green walls, framed art, and a room that somehow feels like midnight at noon, ViceVersa is a Neapolitan pizza and cocktail bar tucked just off the lobby of the Elser Hotel. The thin-crust pies are the anchor, but the bar program is the real argument for staying. The affogato martini landed on Esquire's radar, and the place sits on North America's 50 Best Bars list. A James Beard nominee for Best New Bar in 2025, too.
- 50 Best #46 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire Affogato Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Punch Best New Bars
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Dark wood, bare concrete, and blinds angled just enough to keep the early evening gloom intact: The Corner is a cocktail bar that dresses like it has nothing to prove. The beer list is deep, the liquor selection is serious, and the cocktails hold their own without any fuss. A few tables spill onto the sidewalk for watching a street that, frankly, isn't doing much. That turns out to be exactly the point.
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 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 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 6. Dante's HiFi
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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Rank 7. Boia De
Contemporary Italian
A neon-pink exclamation mark glows above the door of this Michelin-starred contemporary Italian restaurant, wedged between a laundromat and a medical center in Buena Vista. The room is small and forest-green, and the staff seem to be enjoying themselves as much as anyone eating there. The menu calls itself Italian, then wanders somewhere more interesting, with house-made pastas and combinations that raise an eyebrow before they make total sense.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
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Rank 8. Café La Trova
Cuban
Live music fills the room most nights at this Cuban cocktail bar and restaurant on Calle Ocho, where the décor slides between Havana and mid-century Miami without quite landing in either. Michelle Bernstein and cocktail veteran Julio Cabrera run the place together, which means the food and the drinks get equal attention. It holds a spot on The World's 50 Best Bars list, and the James Beard Foundation named it an Outstanding Bar Semifinalist.
- 50 Best #82 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #42 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Five tiers of spirits line the back bar at Beaker and Grey, a cocktail bar in Wynwood-adjacent Midtown that pulls a crowd comfortable in nice sneakers. Uplighting catches the brickwork and warm bulbs keep everything buzzy without tipping into lounge-bar gloom. The small lounge beyond the bar has floor-to-ceiling windows that feel a touch showroom, but nobody seems to mind once drinks arrive.
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Dive Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Bon Appétit America's Best New Bars
- 50 Best #70 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire The Best Bars in America
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- Esquire The Best Bars in America
- Esquire Cold AF Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 14. Zuma
Japanese
The terrace hangs over the mouth of the Miami River where it meets Biscayne Bay, which sets the tone for everything else. This is the bar inside Zuma, the Japanese cocktail and sake operation anchored inside the Epic Hotel, done up in granite, rice paper paneling, and Indonesian wood by a Tokyo designer. The crowd arrives dressed for a scene, which is more or less the point. Sake flights and Japanese-inflected cocktails are the move.
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Hotel Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 18. 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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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Restaurant (Brickell) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Gay Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Sports Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar Food · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
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Rank 29. Panamericano Bar
Pan-American Cocktail Bar
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Rank 30. Sexy Fish
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Bar (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 39. Orilla Bar & Grill
Latin Steakhouse Cocktail Bar
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The lounge bar inside the Mandarin Oriental sits beneath a triple-height lobby ceiling with water views and a front-row look at the bridge tying Brickell Key to the mainland. The clientele arrives with generous expense accounts and matching expectations, and the room meets them precisely there. Everything is exactly so, which is another way of saying the drinks are polished and the energy is not.
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Reservations required, a three-night-a-week window, and a bouncer who greets you like a long-lost relative: Saxony sets the terms before you've touched a drink. This late-night cocktail bar lives beneath the Faena Hotel, down a staircase into a basement of black terrazzo, gold-leaf ceilings, and Art Deco bones, with a DJ running things until 4am. The crowd arrived on purpose and dressed accordingly.
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Rank 42. Matador Room
Latin Fusion Mexican
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 44. The Anderson
Cocktail Bar
Leopard-print stage, tartan wallpaper, red leather booths, and a baby grand with a jazz band squeezed in, all on a five-lane highway in Shorecrest. The Anderson is a craft cocktail bar that could not care less about beach-bar minimalism. One room goes full black on black; the other commits to New York kitsch so hard it loops back around to charming. The drinks, not the decor, tend to be the reason people come back.
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- The Pinnacle Guide 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Hotel Bar · Best of Miami New Times
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The DJ booth alone is larger than some British bars, which tells you something about the scale Blackbird Ordinary is operating at. This is a sprawling American bar, pool table competing with the DJ for the room's soul, and the unspoken rule is that you do not dance. Out back, a terrace with its own bar and an open-air cinema keeps things properly Miami. Office workers and locals find common ground here without trying too hard.
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Rank 55. Repour Bar
Cocktail Bar
The cocktail menu at this hotel bar is organized by room, Sitting Room, Living Room, Guest Room, and Garden, which tells you most of what you need to know about the vibe. Tucked off the Albion's soaring lobby, Repour goes deliberately the other way: low ceilings, homey furniture, the feel of someone's well-curated apartment. The bartender behind it built the interior himself with family and friends, and it shows in the best way.
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Dive Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The bar itself is barely the size of a large closet, which only explains why everyone crowds around it anyway instead of taking one of the many outdoor seats in the palm-shaded courtyard beyond. Broken Shaker is a cocktail bar tucked inside the Indian Creek Hotel, its walls and shelves so thoroughly cluttered with objects it feels less designed than accumulated. The drinks are the point, and regulars seem to treat the tight quarters as a feature.
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Wine Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Hotel Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 75. Flanigan's
Seafood
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Sports Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 79. Setai Bar and Courtyard
Cocktail Bar
The long pearl bar counter is the first thing that registers, backlit against dark wood and warm gold light, with loose rosebuds packed into displays that somehow don't look like a wedding. This is a cocktail bar inside one of Miami Beach's sleeker luxury hotels, all Asian-modernist design and reclaimed Shanghai brick underfoot. Outside, Martinis get sipped poolside under palms by people who have clearly packed better than you did.
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Bar Food · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Wine Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Wine List · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Suburban Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bar (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Brewery (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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