The 100 Best Places to Drink and Do in Miami
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The best places to drink and do in Miami, according to the experts: Forbes Travel Guide, Vogue, and Bon Appétit have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club comes out on top.
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Bar Kaiju and Boia De 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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The spa at this storied Surfside property holds a Forbes Five Star and a spot on Vogue's list of the world's top spas, which tracks once you're inside: hushed, unhurried, a few miles north of South Beach's particular chaos. It's the kind of place where the treatment rooms feel genuinely removed from everything, and the taupe-toned quiet is, against all odds, exactly what you wanted.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
- Vogue Vogue: 100 Best Spas in the World
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Rank 2. Bar Kaiju
Cocktail Bar
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- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: America's Best New Bars
- The 50 The 50: #70 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire Esquire: The Best Bars in America
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Bars
- The 50 #70 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire The Best Bars in America
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Rank 2. 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.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast Wine Enthusiast: Forward 50 Restaurants
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #7 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Miami
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
- The Infatuation #7 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Miami
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Rank 2. 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.
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- The 50 The 50: #82 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #42 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
- The 50 #82 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #42 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 2. 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.
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- The 50 The 50: #46 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire Esquire: Affogato Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Punch Punch: Best New Bars
- The 50 #46 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire Affogato Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Punch Best New Bars
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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Rank 11. Champagne Bar
Cocktail Bar
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- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Hotel Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- 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 Self-Centered Garden, a canopied outdoor oasis of draped cabanas, sets the tone for this full-service resort spa perched at the edge of the Atlantic in a blink-and-miss-it township between Palm Beach and Boca. Sauna, steam, jacuzzi with a waterfall shower, bottomless bubbles before and after your treatment, plus a terrace cafe for fresh-pressed juices when you're ready to pretend you're healthy. Vogue named it among its 100 Best Spas in the World.
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- Esquire Esquire: The Best Bars in America
- Esquire Esquire: Cold AF Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
- 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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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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- Huckberry Huckberry: The 50 Best Dive Bars in America
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 18. Panamericano
Pan-American Cocktail Bar
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- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 18. 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.
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- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The best new restaurants in the world
- Food & Wine Food & Wine: The Top 15 US Restaurants
- Esquire Esquire: Martini Service · The Best Martinis in America
- 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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Rank 18. Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery
Cocktail Bar
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.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2024 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- 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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- Esquire Esquire: The Best Bars in America
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2023 · Best Wine List · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Bar (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- 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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Rank 23. 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.
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- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 23. 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.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2023 · Best Gay Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Miami
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Gay Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- The Infatuation #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Miami
- Eater Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
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Rank 23. Mama Tried
Dive Bar
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Bar (Miami) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- 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 Eater: The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- 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 23. Sweet Liberty
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2024 · Best Bar Food · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- 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 23. 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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- 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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- Eater Eater: Miami’s 15 Essential Cocktail Bars
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2024 · Best Restaurant (Brickell) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Eater: 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Eater Eater: The Best Restaurants in Brickell
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Restaurant (Brickell) · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Eater The Best Restaurants in Brickell
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Rank 32. 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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2023 · Best Hotel Restaurant · Best of Miami New Times
- 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 Miami New Times: Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Bar
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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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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 33. Sexy Fish
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 36. Matador Room
Latin Fusion Mexican
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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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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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 37. La Drogerie
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2023 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Spirited Awards 2023 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 37. 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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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 37. The Raleigh Martini Bar
Cocktail Bar
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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 37. The Regent Cocktail Lounge
Cocktail Bar
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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 43. 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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 43. 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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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 43. 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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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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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.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 47. Orilla Bar & Grill
Modern Steakhouse
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A pharmacist who loved nature enough to deed his 1930s wood cottage and grounds to the Tropical Audubon Society upon his death is a hard act to follow, but the place keeps the faith. Now the society's headquarters, the Steinberg Nature Center spreads across 2.2 acres of pine rockland and tropical hardwood hammock, the latter considered critically endangered. Tours cover the cottage and the trails, and the whole thing reads as a quiet argument for what South Miami looked like before the malls arrived.
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Sand in your mat is the only real hazard at this free outdoor yoga class, which runs every morning and evening on the beach at Third Street, 365 days a year. Volunteer teachers rotate through, so the vibe shifts session to session, and all levels show up, from first-timers to regulars who've clearly been greeting the Atlantic sunrise upside down for years. Bring a towel, and tip your teacher.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Yoga · Best of Miami New Times
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A few hundred classic arcade cabinets in a Miami strip mall, humming and flickering the way they did before everything moved to a screen you hold in your hand. Arcade Odyssey stocks a rotating mix of rarities alongside the expected Mortal Kombat and pinball machines, so even people who grew up on this stuff will spot things they haven't seen in years. Acting like a twelve-year-old is not just tolerated here, it's the whole point.
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Red lighting, treadmills, and the ambient sound of people pushing through intervals they'll regret tomorrow. Barry's is a boutique fitness studio where the signature classes split time between running and weight work, and the crowd skews conspicuously fit. Miami New Times gave it a Best of Miami nod, which is one way to describe the demographics. Come for the workout; the rest is incidental.
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A small waterfront park just off Biscayne Boulevard where downtown Miami sits across the water like a postcard you didn't pay for. Benches face the bay, waves knock against the rocks, and on a quiet morning it might be just you and a coffee from the strip nearby. Sunset turns the whole thing gold, which the Instagram crowd has noticed, though it's rarely crowded enough to matter.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best View · Best of Miami New Times
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The lighthouse at the southern tip of Key Biscayne has been standing since before anyone alive can remember, and climbing its 109 steps earns you a view that explains why people keep moving to Miami. Bill Baggs is a state park with serious birding credentials, over 260 species spotted inside its boundaries, plus barbecue grills, a cafe, and enough white sand to make the drive across the causeway feel like a reasonable life choice.
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Ninety-five percent of Biscayne National Park is water, which makes it the rare national park where the main thing to do is go under. The Florida Reef is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental U.S., and the Biscayne Maritime Heritage Trail strings together historic shipwrecks you reach by boat. If staying dry matters, a boat tour covers Stiltsville's strange stilted homes and the old lighthouse on uninhabited Boca Chita Key.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Escape · Best of Miami New Times
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Doral Central Park's skatepark sits inside a sprawling 78-acre public park with kayaking, beach volleyball, and an outdoor amphitheater, which is either a lot of amenities or a very ambitious Tuesday. The concrete is fresh, the rails are properly grindy, and after school the place fills with teenagers doing exactly what teenagers should be doing outdoors. Disney Channel vibes, but the skating is the real thing.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Skatepark · Best of Miami New Times
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A 15-mile paved loop cuts through the sawgrass, and at the far end an observation tower puts the whole river of grass beneath you in one sweep. Shark Valley is the Everglades entrance closest to Miami, reachable in under an hour, with trails for walking or renting a bike and enough alligators sunning on the path to make you reconsider the bike. The city evaporates fast out here, which is the whole point.
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Serious lap swimmers fill all eight lanes before sunrise, so the fit retirees queuing at the gate before 6 a.m. know exactly what they're doing. This public pool in Flamingo Park runs every day, holidays included, with Ocean Rescue crews doing dawn drills beside casual weekend floaters. A kiddie pool, lounge chairs, and hot showers round it out, and the surrounding park adds a track and outdoor gym for anyone who wasn't already tired.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Pool · Best of Miami New Times
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A red-lit LED path winds through Markham Park to a small dome where volunteer astronomers from the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association let you look through their telescopes on cloudless Saturday nights. Light pollution from six million neighbors does its worst, but Saturn's rings tend to win the argument. The volunteers outside bring their own gear and seem genuinely delighted to explain what you're seeing. Free, unhurried, and a little wonderful.
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Mat-based Pilates studio where the infrared heat is cranked up and the playlist runs Bad Bunny into Adele without apology. The aesthetic lands somewhere between Tulum spa and a very tidy minimalist bedroom, all neutral tones and Bala weights arranged just so. Group classes mix Pilates and sculpt and are built to work across levels, so no one's just decorating the back row. The sustainably sourced water bottles are a nice touch, or a very on-brand one.
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A living reef sits about 100 yards offshore here, close enough to snorkel to from the sand without chartering anything. This small coastal village north of Fort Lauderdale runs on pastel lifeguard stands, Adirondack chairs at the Beach Pavilion, and an unhurried pace that most of Florida's coast quietly abandoned decades ago. Anglin's Square keeps ice cream and tiki drinks within a sandy shuffle, and El Prado Park fills with people who seem to have nowhere pressing to be.
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The basketball courts at Legion Memorial Park were repainted by local artist Najja Moon in purples, oranges, and yellows that make every other court in Miami look like a parking garage. Two full courts, recently renovated, draw serious pick-up runs and plenty of people who just want the backdrop. In a city where most outdoor courts are institutional green or gray, these read more like public art that someone also happens to be playing on.
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An indoor forest or a digital ikebana show are about as good a reason as any to cross the county line into Dania Beach. MAD Arts is an immersive, technology-forward art museum where the installations lean experimental and the programming runs from shadow puppet dioramas to cult film screenings to small press fairs. It's the kind of place that's genuinely hard to describe to someone who hasn't been, which is basically its pitch.
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Kayak rentals sit at the edge of Biscayne Bay here, just south of Coral Gables, and a single push off the dock puts you somewhere palm trees and waterfront mansions have replaced Miami traffic entirely. The park has been around forever, and vendors keep it accessible for anyone who didn't come prepared. The city doesn't disappear so much as go quiet, which, if you've driven Miami's highways lately, feels like a small miracle.
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A two-storey guitar neck and synthesizer climb structure announces this Sunset Harbour park before you even find a spot on the grass. Named for the Bee Gee who called South Florida home, it sits between a yacht marina and Purdy Avenue with west-facing views of the Venetian Islands and the Miami skyline. Grab takeout from a nearby spot, spread a blanket, and watch the light go soft over Biscayne Bay.
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Nine miles of paved path run the full length of Miami Beach, from Surfside down to South Pointe Park, with the Atlantic on one side and a parade of Art Deco facades on the other. Street markers are embedded in the path so you can track how far you've gone, which sounds athletic until you realize the people-watching is so good you'll stop counting. Bring sunscreen and comfortable shoes; the ocean air handles everything else.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Walk · Best of Miami New Times
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Day Trip · Best of Miami New Times
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The Allapattah outpost of New York's Museum of Sex lands somewhere between art gallery and adult funhouse, with exhibits from illustrator Hajime Sorayama, a floor of erotic carnival games, and evenings when mermaid burlesque performers spin in a giant tank. It's unabashedly touristy, but the educational displays on human sexuality through the ages give you something to think about beyond the gift shop's souvenir vibrators, which are exactly what they sound like.
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A 20-acre rewilding project deep in Miami-Dade's Redland, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is a nature preserve with a Zen garden, koi pond, giant Buddha statue, and a furnished joglo for sitting quietly while the city does whatever the city does. It regularly hosts retreats and forest bathing events. For Miami, where the default setting is "pave it," the existence of this much intentional stillness is its own kind of plot twist.
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An indoor climbing gym that's been beefing up forearms in West Kendall since before bouldering was a personality type. No sauna, no juice bar, no steep initiation theater, just reasonable day passes, a full upstairs gym, and walls that reward actual footwork. The community is the real draw: regulars here talk beta, not brunch. Miami New Times named it Best Rock Climbing in 2025.
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Forty-three courts spread across ten lakeside acres make The FORT one of the larger pickleball complexes in South Florida, and it also serves as the official home of the Association of Pickleball Players. Open play, skill-rated matches, private rentals, and tournaments all run here, and the après-match bar and kitchen give everyone a reason to linger. The crowd runs from first-timers fumbling their dinks to people who travel for this.
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A ten-mile linear park running beneath the Metrorail, The Underline has spent years converting concrete shadow into bike paths, basketball courts, fitness zones, art installations, and native-planted trails. The Brickell Backyard section is the busiest stretch, while the Hammock Trail pushes north into something that feels genuinely wilder. The whole thing is still expanding toward completion, which means returning visitors keep finding something new to argue about.
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Two separate gated fields, one for big dogs and one for small, sit inside this sprawling Doral dog park where weekends bring a genuinely chaotic mix of zoomies and sniffing diplomacy. A wash station handles the muddy aftermath, and there's outdoor fitness equipment plus a kids' playground, so the humans aren't just standing around looking grateful. The nearby Starbucks is two minutes away, which your dog has already calculated.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Dog Park · Best of Miami New Times
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An outdoor roller rink on colorful tiles in the heart of Wynwood, with a DJ running old-school hip-hop and Bad Bunny and a bar nearby for the non-skaters who came anyway. It runs Thursday through Sunday and costs under twenty bucks, which is a reasonable price for the combination of nostalgia and bruised dignity. Pack socks, or be prepared to hear about it.
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Four-dollar beers on Lincoln Road, which should be physically impossible. Zeke's is a cash-only sidewalk bar that has traded under a few names over the decades but never really changed: cheap cold beer, a bag of chips for a dollar, and a front-row seat to the full Miami Beach parade passing by. The hours shift, the tap selection is unpredictable, and none of that seems to bother anyone nursing a bottle in the sun.
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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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.
The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2023 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Waterfront Bar · Best of Miami New Times
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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Rank 81. Blackbird Ordinary
Dive Bar
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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2024 · Best Hotel Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Hotel Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2024 · Best Suburban Bar · Best of Miami New Times
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- Miami New Times 2024 · Best Suburban 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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Miami New Times 100 Best Bars in Miami
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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The awards
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 100 Best Bars in Miami
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