The Top 43 Restaurants in Miami Beach
The best restaurants in Miami Beach, by the professional record: AAA, Michelin Guide, and Miami New Times have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Stubborn Seed comes out on top.
Tambourine Room By Tristan Brandt and Macchialina Taverna Rustica hold the next two places. Miami New Times shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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Rank 1. Stubborn Seed
Contemporary New American
The glass-fronted kitchen puts the cooking on full display at this sleek, intimate fine dining spot on a busy Miami Beach corner. Jeremy Ford runs an ambitious tasting menu that pulls in Latin and Asian influences, and the kitchen supplies itself from its own organic farm in Redland, which is either admirable or showing off. Probably both. Michelin has given it a star, and the room fills accordingly.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Restaurant (Miami Beach) · Best of Miami New Times
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Cocktail bites in a wood-paneled lounge come first, then you move to the intimate dining room for a multicourse contemporary menu that pulls ingredients from New Zealand, Key Largo, and wherever else the chef's attention has landed that season. Tristan Brandt holds a Michelin star here, and the room earns the quiet formality: unhurried, precise, the kind of fine dining that still believes in professional service without apology.
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Rank 3. Macchialina Taverna Rustica
Rustic Italian
- Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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A gilded woolly mammoth by Damien Hirst anchors the courtyard outside, and the gold-domed dining room inside doesn't exactly dial it down. This hotel restaurant at the Faena runs a short menu that pulls from across Asia, loosely interpreted, with dishes that move between sweet, savory, and spicy in the same bite. The kind of place where the room is doing a lot of work, and the food quietly keeps pace.
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Rank 5. 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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Rank 6. Hakkasan Miami
Cantonese
Getting to this moody Cantonese fine dining room means running the gauntlet of the Fontainebleau lobby, a spectacle of beach bodies and night owls that does nothing to prepare you for the dark, clubby calm inside. Ornate wooden slat dividers and sleek marble tables set the scene, the music keeps the bass low and steady, and the kitchen leans hard into high-quality seafood alongside Cantonese classics like Peking duck with all its crêpes and hoisin.
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Rank 7. Macchialina
Italian
The tiramisu gets a Miami rewrite here, dulce de leche cream under a cap of espresso granita, and that instinct runs through everything at this snug Italian restaurant on Alton Road. Tufted banquettes and a covered patio set the mood, the wine list runs almost entirely Italian, and the bar pours house-infused grappa in flavors like chai and chamomile. The pasta is made in-house, and regulars fill the room nightly like they never considered going anywhere else.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Miami Right Now
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 7. Taquiza
Mexican
Blue corn tortillas made from scratch, with corn sourced from small Midwest farms and nixtamalized in-house, are what this casual beachside taco spot in North Beach built its reputation on. The chef was early to the whole process in Miami, and the operation has since grown into a local institution. Palm trees, ocean air one block over, and salsas worth asking about, especially the charred jalapeño.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Miami
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
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Rank 9. 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 10. Motek
Mediterranean
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Rank 11. Cecconi's
Italian
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Rank 14. Akash Miami Beach
Modern Indian
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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 22. Abbalé Telavivian Kitchen
Middle Eastern
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Rank 22. Casa Isola Osteria
Italian
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Rank 22. Katana
Japanese
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Rank 22. La Sandwicherie
French
- Miami New Times Top 100 Restaurants
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Late-Night Dining · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 22. Sérêvène
Japanese French
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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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- 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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