Cuban / Cocktail Bar · Little Havana · James Beard Outstanding Bar Program; World's 50 Best Bars
Cantinero Julio Cabrera's 1950s-Havana-revival cocktail bar + Cuban restaurant on Calle Ocho, co-founded with chef Michelle Bernstein. Internationally acclaimed bar program, live son Cubano music, and...
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The Broken Shaker
Cocktail Bar · Mid Beach · James Beard Outstanding Bar Program 2015, World's 50 Best Bars
James Beard Outstanding Bar winner tucked in the courtyard of the Freehand — Gabe Orta and Elad Zvi's tropical, herb-garden-fed cocktail program rebuilt the genre when it landed in 2012. Still the cit...
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Viceversa
Cocktail Bar / Italian · Downtown Miami · North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 (#46); 2025 James Beard "Best New Bar" finalist
Award-winning Miami bartender Valentino Longo — ex-head bartender of the Four Seasons Surf Club Champagne Bar and Bombay Sapphire's 2020 Most Imaginative Bartender — opened Viceversa in the lobby of T...
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Sweet Liberty Drinks & Supply Co.
Cocktail Bar / American · South Beach · Tales of the Cocktail Best New American Cocktail Bar 2016, World's 50 Best Bars
John Lermayer's still-imperfect drinks bar — the South Beach institution that made the city's first run at World's 50 Best Bars. Late-night kitchen, bartenders' table for one-on-one service, and a piñ...
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Dante's HiFi
Vinyl Listening Bar · Wynwood · World's 50 Best Bars, Esquire Best Bars in America
America's first dedicated vinyl listening bar — Klipsch horn speakers, all-agave cocktails, and a rotating roster of selectors. Ranked among World's 50 Best Bars within a year of opening.
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LIV Miami
Nightclub · Mid Beach · Top 50 Nightclubs in the World, multiple years
The Fontainebleau's marquee nightclub since 2008 — David Grutman's flagship and arguably America's most-photographed dancefloor. Resident DJs and a bottle list that reads like a champagne-house catalo...
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Zuma Miami
Japanese Izakaya · Downtown
The Miami outpost of Rainer Becker's global izakaya chain, on Brickell's downtown waterfront at the Kimpton EPIC. Robata-grilled miso-marinated black cod and spicy tuna tartare are the canonical order...
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Carbone Miami
Italian-American · South Beach · Major Food Group Miami flagship — one of the hardest reservations in the metro
Major Food Group's Collins Avenue Carbone — the Miami answer to the Thompson Street original. Spicy rigatoni vodka, captain-led service, a room humming with the same mid-century Italian-American energ...
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Jaguar Sun
Cocktail Bar / Pasta · Downtown Miami
Downtown's most quietly perfect bar — Carey Hynes' cocktails, Will Thompson's pasta, and a corridor of a room that looks designed for long single-malt confessions.
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Champagne Bar at The Surf Club
Champagne Lounge · Surfside
Inside Joseph Dirand's restored 1930 cabana club at the Four Seasons Surfside — the most architecturally serious bar in Miami, a marble-and-mirror temple where the by-the-glass champagne list reads li...