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Top 10 Miami Restaurants That’ll Make You Cancel Your Diet 🔥
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items Beyond The Hype
Let’s be real - Miami has a reputation for style over substance. All flash, no flavor. Overpriced Instagram traps where you pay $45 for a photogenic disappointment.
But then there’s the OTHER Miami. The one where James Beard winner...
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Chef Valerie Chang just won Best Chef South at the 2024 James Beard Awards, so yeah, she’s kind of a big deal. But Maty’s doesn’t feel like a stuffy award-winner - it feels like you walked into her grandmother’s house during a celebration where every...
Maty's: Where James Beard Award-winning food meets “let’s dance between courses” energy 💃🇵🇪
Opened in 1913 before Miami Beach even had PAVED ROADS, Joe’s Stone Crab is the kind of iconic you can’t fake. This is where five generations have cracked open sustainably harvested stone crab claws dunked in tangy mustard sauce while plotting world ...
Joe's Stone Crab: The 111-year-old Miami legend where politicians, celebrities, and your judgy aunt all wait in line together 🦀👑
Chef Kwame Onwuachi (yeah, the Top Chef winner and James Beard Award winner) is running this West Indies-inspired rum bar on South Beach, and it’s giving EVERYTHING. Trinidadian, Haitian, and Latin flavors layered with the kind of sophistication that...
Las' Lap Miami: Caribbean food so good you’ll book a flight to Trinidad just to compare 🌴🔥
Edan is Miami’s best Spanish restaurant, and somehow they’ve cracked the code on being both special-occasion-worthy AND affordable depending on how you play it. The Basque cheesecake alone is worth the trip - it’s so good you’ll order four slices bec...
Edan Bistro: Spanish food that costs less than therapy and tastes way better 🇪🇸✨
Ogawa is expensive AF, but it’s hands-down the best sushi omakase in Miami. And when a literal freight train rumbles past mid-bite of sea bream marinated in cherry blossom leaves and you STILL feel like you’re in Tokyo? That’s when you know the vibes...
Ogawa Miami: The omakase that’ll make you feel closer to Tokyo than Little River (yes, really) 🍣🚂
Miami has like 200 Peruvian restaurants, but Barra Callao is THE ceviche bar and salsa party you didn’t know you needed. The chalacas (mussels) are so gorgeous they look like they belong in a botanical garden, and they taste even better than they loo...
Barra Callao: The Peruvian ceviche bar where the fish is fresh and the salsa dancing is mandatory 🐟💃
Kojin’s journey is chef’s kiss: started as a pop-up, became a secret counter, now it’s a full-fledged Coral Gables restaurant where husband-wife team Pedro and Katherine Mederos cook with fine-dining precision and Miami attitude (the perfect combo, h...
Kojin: From secret pop-up to full restaurant - the Miami love story we all needed 🔥👨🍳
Contessa is THE spot for people-watching over Italian food and feeling like you’re the main character in a movie about beautiful people doing beautiful things. Upscale but not stuffy, lively but not chaotic - it’s the goldilocks of Miami dining.
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Contessa Miami: Where aperol spritzes flow like water and spicy lobster capellini flows like… expensive, delicious water 🦞🍹
Café La Trova made the World’s 50 Best Bars list (multiple times), which should tell you everything about the cocktail game here. Led by James Beard Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein and bar legend Julio Cabrera, this is a celebration of Miami’s ...
Cafe La Trova: Cuban culture, craft cocktails, and live music - basically the holy trinity 🇨🇺🎶
TBD lives up to its name in the BEST way - it’s a dimly lit Coral Way hideaway where the menu shifts constantly and the excitement is never knowing what Venezuelan-born chefs Johnny Delgado and Richard Ortega are cooking up next.
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To Be Determined: The restaurant that literally changes its mind every few weeks (and we’re obsessed) 🎲✨