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The 100 Best Places to Drink in Miami

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The best places to drink in Miami, according to the experts: Bon Appétit, The 50, and Esquire have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Bar Kaiju comes out on top.

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Boia De and Café La Trova hold the next two places. Miami New Times shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Difford's Guide next.

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  1. Rank 1. Bar Kaiju

    Cocktail Bar


    Address
    8300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–1 AM

    Online
    Website
  2. Rank 1. 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.


    Address
    5205 N.E. 2nd Ave., Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Wednesday 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
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  3. 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.


    Address
    971 S.W. 8th St., Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  4. Rank 1. ViceVersa

    Neapolitan Italian 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.


    Address
    The Elser Hotel, 398 N.E. 5th St., Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    Resy
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  5. Rank 5. Champagne Bar

    Cocktail Bar



  6. Address
    1690 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL · Miami Beach
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Wednesday 7 PM–Midnight

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  7. Rank 7. Panamericano

    Pan-American Cocktail Bar


  8. Rank 7. Sunny’s Steakhouse

    Modern 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.


  9. A rum library with over 150 bottles and a dedicated room that walks you through the sugarcane-to-bottle story before you order. This cocktail bar inside the Collins Avenue strip leans Prohibition-era in its feel, with leather couches, cozy booths, and a patio sized for golden hour. The rum flights lean into Florida producers. You don't need to arrive knowing your agricole from your molasses; the bar is built for learning on the job.




  10. Rank 12. Dante's HiFi

    Japanese Cocktail Bar

    Wynwood's answer to Japan's listening bars, Dante's HiFi is built around an analog sound system fed by a music director's vinyl library that runs north of 8,000 records. The cocktail program leans into Japanese whisky highballs made with the kind of precision that would satisfy a Tokyo bartender, alongside house drinks that pull from local flavors. Come for the music as much as the drinks; no one's rushing you out.


  11. Rank 12. Gramps Getaway

    Tropical Cocktail Bar

    Gramps Getaway is a waterfront cocktail bar under the big palapa that used to house Whiskey Joe's, with creaky floorboards that still hold decades of beach sand. Seventies rock plays, the frozen drinks are stronger than they let on, and the Brickell skyline sits across the water. The menu runs from wings to a fried chicken sandwich, and prices stay modest. Eater lists it among Miami's essential cocktail bars.


  12. Rank 12. Mama Tried

    Dive Bar



  13. Rank 12. Sweet Liberty

    Cocktail Bar


  14. Rank 12. The Corner

    Cocktail Bar

    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.




  15. Address
    1300 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  16. Rank 21. 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.


    Address
    270 Biscayne Blvd Way, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:45 AM

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–11 PM, 11:45 AM–Midnight

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  17. Address
    7220 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  18. 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.


  19. Rank 22. Sexy Fish

    Japanese Cocktail Bar

    The awards


    Address
    1001 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–Midnight

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  20. Rank 25. Matador Room

    Latin Fusion Mexican


  21. 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.


  22. Rank 26. La Drogerie

    Cocktail Bar



  23. Rank 26. 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.


  24. The scallop-shaped pool behind this Art Deco cocktail bar is what most guests are actually aiming for, which makes the bar itself a pleasantly unhurried place to land. Andre Balazs owns the Raleigh Hotel around it, which explains the crowd that looks like it wandered off a casting call. Order something with gin, find a seat, and let the Collins Avenue faithful do their thing.


  25. Dark wood paneling, a marble bar top, and a cross-shaped sofa planted in the middle of the room like a design manifesto, all of it underscored by 1930s ballads drifting through the sound system. This cocktail lounge sits tucked at the back of the Gale South Beach property, the quieter, more composed sibling to the hotel's other bar. The kind of room where you order something classic and mean it.


  26. Rank 32. MO Bar and Lounge

    Cocktail Bar

    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.


  27. Rank 32. 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.


  28. 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.


  29. Oak floors, vintage chandeliers, and white marble frames set the tone in this hotel bar that anchors the lobby of a lovingly restored mid-century property. The front bar flows into the reception area in that slightly blurry way old Miami hotels used to manage, and a clubbier basement lounge called the Rec Room waits below for when you need things to get a little more nocturnal. The crowd skews South Beach, which tells you everything.


    Address
    Gale South Beach & Regent Hotel, (corner 17th St), Miami, Florida · Miami
    Hours

    Open now, until 11:59 PM

    Wednesday Midnight–11:59 PM

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    Website
  30. Rank 36. Orilla Bar & Grill

    Modern Steakhouse


    Address
    426 Euclid Ave, Miami Beach, FL · Miami Beach
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–10 PM

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    OpenTable
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  31. Batch Gastropub is a casual pub in a neighborhood where most bars seem to require a reservation and a point of view. Here the main decor is televisions, plenty of them, which makes game day the natural habitat. The beer list runs deep on craft pours, the whiskey shelf is serious, and the pub fare leans burgers and wings. Happy hour and weekly trivia give the regulars a schedule, and nobody asks you to dress for the occasion.






  32. Address
    168 SE First St, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–11 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram
  33. 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.



  34. Address
    4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL · Miami Beach
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1 AM

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    WebsiteInstagram


  35. 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.




  36. Address
    124 Giralda Ave, Coral Gables, FL · Coral Gables
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram

  37. Address
    42 NE 25th St, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–1 AM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram


  38. Address
    206 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, FL · Coral Gables
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–2 AM

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    WebsiteInstagram


  39. Rank 37. Flanigan's

    Seafood






  40. Address
    2800 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Wednesday 3 PM–Midnight

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    WebsiteInstagram




  41. Address
    253 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, FL · Coral Gables
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram






  42. Address
    7360 SW 41st St, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–1 AM

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  43. Address
    8281 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–Midnight

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    WebsiteInstagram




  44. Address
    30205 SW 217th Ave, Homestead, FL · Homestead
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Wednesday 3 PM–8 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram



  45. Address
    2550 S Bayshore Dr, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram


  46. Address
    5001 NW 36th St, Miami Springs, FL · Miami Springs
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–1 AM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram


  47. Address
    1052 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL · Miami Beach
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–1 AM

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    WebsiteInstagram


  48. Address
    920 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL · Miami
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–10:30 PM

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  49. Address
    6844 NW 169th St Miami, FL · Hialeah
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–8 PM

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