East Miami's 40th-floor rooftop garden — bonsai-bordered cocktail bar with steamed-bao snacks and a 360-degree skyline view of Brickell. The most photographed Brickell rooftop, justifiably.
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Quinto La Huella
Uruguayan / Wood-Fire · Coconut Grove · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants (origin in Uruguay)
The José Ignacio classic transplanted to the EAST Miami's Coconut Grove sister — wood-fire-only kitchen, blanched shrimp aguachiles, charred-octopus, and lengua-rare cuts in a beachside-cabin space te...
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Mandolin Aegean Bistro
Greek / Turkish · Buena Vista
Ahmet and Anastasia Erkaya's Aegean bistro in a converted Buena Vista bungalow — one of Miami's great patio restaurants. Simple, coastal Greek and Turkish cooking served in a gravel garden dense with ...
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Smith & Wollensky Miami Beach
Steakhouse · South Pointe · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
The white-clapboard chophouse on the southern tip of South Pointe Park — a port-side classic where USDA Prime cuts come with cargo-ship views. The southern bookend to Joe's Stone Crab.
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Sunny's Steakhouse
Steakhouse · Wynwood
Chef-owned Wynwood open-air steakhouse in a former warehouse — mostly outdoor seating under string lights and a corrugated-metal canopy. Mesquite-grilled steaks, the famous french fries, and a lo-fi c...
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ZeyZey
Music Venue / Mexican · Little Haiti
Little Haiti's open-air music venue — Mexican antojitos, mezcal-forward cocktails, and a calendar of cumbia, salsa, and ambient DJs. The rare Miami room where the music programming is the point.
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Palma
Italian · Coral Gables
Coral Gables' garden Italian — Roman-trained chef Giancarla Bodoni's twin-room restaurant with a banyan-shaded courtyard, hand-rolled pastas, and wood-oven pizzas with charred edges. The Gables' best ...
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Tripping Animals Brewing Co.
Brewery / Hazy IPAs · Doral · World Beer Cup medalist, RateBeer Top 100 US Breweries
Doral's experimental hazy-IPA flagship — Nicolas Marquez's brewery has stacked World Beer Cup medals since 2019 with milkshake stouts, fruited goses, and DIPAs that can't sit on shelves.
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Plant Food + Wine
Plant-Based · Wynwood
Matthew Kenney's plant-based Wynwood restaurant — raw-vegan lasagna, kelp noodles, almond mozzarella, and a natural-wine list that takes the cooking seriously enough to disarm the carnivores.
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The Anderson
Cocktail Bar · MiMo
MiMo's polished tropical bar — Will Thompson's pre-Jaguar Sun project, an open-air patio under twinkling lights, and a tiki-leaning cocktail program that put the neighborhood's drinking on the city ma...