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🇨🇺 Little Havana, Miami
11 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 11 Restaurants
✨ Cuban, Latin American, Local Faves
The soul of Miami. Cuban coffee windows, domino parks, and authentic Latin American restaurants along Calle Ocho (8th Street).
Known for: Calle Ocho, Domino Park, ventanitas, cigar shops
Don't miss: Versailles, Ball & Chain, Azucar Ice Cream, El Exquisito
💡 Versailles is the most famous Cuban restaurant in America -- get the vaca frita and a cafecito at the ventanita window. Ball & Chain has live salsa every night.
Top 10 in Little Havana
1
Cafe La Trova
Cuban / Cocktail Bar · 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 s...
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Versailles Restaurant
Cuban · James Beard America's Classics, Miami cultural institution
'The World's Most Famous Cuban Restaurant' since 1971. The unofficial town hall of Little Havana — where Cuban-American political opinion is loudly debated over cortaditos at the V...
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3
Sanguich de Miami
Cuban · Michelin Bib Gourmand
Daniel Figueredo and Rosa Romero's fiercely-defended Cuban sandwich counter on Calle Ocho — bread baked in-house, pork roasted in-house, and arguably the definitive Cuban sandwich ...
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4
Lung Yai Thai Tapas
Thai · Michelin Bib Gourmand
Chef Bas' regional Thai tapas counter in Little Havana — a tight menu of grilled skewers, curries, and northeastern Thai specialties. Among the most creative Thai cooking in Miami.
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5
Hoy Como Ayer
Cuban Live Music Bar
Calle Ocho's intimate Cuban music venue since 2003 — the room where Buena Vista Social Club veterans pass through, mojito-slicked dancing on weeknights, and the kind of singing tha...
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6
Azucar Ice Cream Company
Ice Cream / Cuban · Featured Best Of Miami; National media coverage
Suzy Batlle's Calle Ocho ice cream institution — Cuban-American flavors made on premises with locally-sourced ingredients, including the famous Abuela Maria (vanilla ice cream, gua...
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7
La Camaronera Fish Market
Cuban / Seafood · JBF America's Classics 2020 — Little Havana 1976 fish market
The Garcia family's 1976 West Flagler fish market and sandwich counter — a James Beard America's Classics award recipient, a counter-service Cuban-seafood menu that has barely move...
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8
El Rey de las Fritas
Cuban · Historic Miami Cuban institution
The Miami home of the Cuban frita — a pork-and-beef patty topped with shoestring fries on a bun — open since 1976. Calle Ocho's most unpretentious stop and a daily favorite of the ...
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9
Doce Provisions
Cuban / American
Lisetty Llampallas' Cuban-American mash-up on Calle Ocho — pork-belly Cubans, plantain-crusted snapper, and the rum cocktail program that finally made the neighborhood drinkable fo...
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10
Bistro 8
Mexican / Cuban
Calle Ocho's Mexican-Cuban hybrid — chilaquiles and ropa vieja under the same roof, with strong cafecitos and a tequila-cubano playing list. Genuinely cross-cultural in a neighborh...
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All 11 Restaurants in Little Havana
Ball & Chain
Cuban / Live Music
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