Best Restaurants in Miami Beach

When people think of Miami Beach, gorgeous beaches and expansive hotels may come to mind first, but the dining scene is just as worthy of attention. South Beach offers Mediterranean standouts and bold Asian restaurants alongside its more famous attractions, while Mid Beach has built buzzy dining rooms inside the city’s most celebrated and historic properties. North Beach offers plenty of neighborhood favorites. Here are our picks for the best dining in Miami Beach, from south to north.

South Beach

Catch Miami Beach

A5 Kobe beef cooked table-side on a heated stone sets the scene at Catch Miami Beach. The expansive, 23,000-square-foot space features an open-air rooftop terrace with a lush garden overlooking the South of Fifth neighborhood. Its sushi menu is a major draw, using catches sourced directly from Tokyo's Toyosu Market.

Popular choices include the Truffle Sashimi with tuna, hamachi and Kaluga caviar, and the Catch Roll with crab, salmon and miso-honey. Not into sushi? The Spicy Gigli pasta is an unexpected highlight on the mainly seafood-focused menu. When ordering drinks, make sure to try one of the bespoke martinis.

CHO Funky Asian Bistro

A James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Restaurateur, Mo Alkassar built CHO as a culinary tour through Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Indonesia, where everything is made in-house.

The playful, dimly lit spot serves dishes like scallop crudo in red curry oil and kaffir lime, khao soi lamb neck with egg noodles and crispy noodles, and duck fried rice in a ceramic Chinese takeout box. Creative cocktails round out the experience and pair well with the restaurant’s bold flavors.

GAIA Miami Beach

Located in South of Fifth, GAIA brings Greek-Mediterranean dining to Miami Beach. Chef Izu Ani's menu centers on the Ice Market, a daily display of whole fish where guests select their catch and choose the preparation.

The menu features modern takes on traditional Mediterranean dishes like spanakopita in pastry crust, watermelon salad cubed into a small pyramid scattered with almonds, basil and feta, and barrel-aged feta baked in honey, nuts and filo pastry.

Mid Beach

Aguasal

Chef Jose Andres's Aguasal serves breakfast through dinner daily at the newly renovated Andaz Miami Beach. Taking its name from the Spanish word for “saltwater,” the coastal Mediterranean restaurant stays true to its roots with a menu that leans heavily toward seafood.

The kitchen delivers dishes like cobia “pastrami” crudo with a Mediterranean rub, melon and aleppo chili; steamed Hollander mussels in a tomato-saffron sauce; and grilled octopus with a hazelnut emulsion and gigante beans. Do not miss the zucchini soup finished with cheese espuma and toasted sesame seeds – it's a light and refreshing dish that stays with you long after the meal ends.

Market at EDITION

Inside the Miami Beach EDITION on Collins Avenue, the Market at EDITION operates more like a European food hall than a hotel restaurant. Famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten took the century-old covered markets of Europe as the inspiration for the space, creating dedicated counters for patisserie, boulangerie and salumeria alongside a raw bar and a cafe facing the street.

Mornings start with a Market Table spread of pastries, while heartier lunchtime options include dishes like lumache pasta with Florida shrimp in a fennel-infused spicy tomato sauce, Faroe Island salmon, a raw bar of coastal oysters and several gourmet pizzas.

Motek Miami Beach

Motek, which translates to “sweetheart” in Hebrew, opened its first location in Downtown Miami in 2020 and has since become a popular spot for Eastern Mediterranean dining. Its Miami Beach location, just a short walk from the ocean, offers both indoor and outdoor seating.

The menu runs all day, featuring kosher-style dishes like baby lamb chops, a whole branzino, 25-ounce dry-aged ribeye and a creamy hummus. The bright and fruit-filled summer salad with watermelon, pistachio and feta is the kind of dish that is perfect after a long day on the beach.

North Beach

Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt

Operating in a space that originally debuted in 1958 as a jazz cocktail lounge, the one-MICHELIN-starred Tambourine Room inside the Carillon Miami Wellness Resort is one of the most intimate dining spots in Miami Beach. The 12-seat venue centers on a French and Asian tasting menu that shifts in size and dishes each season, with chefs presenting every course table-side.

The current six-course summer menu highlights Key Largo Snapper with red curry and an Australian Wagyu Striploin with melted leeks – but the menu changes frequently, so make sure to check ahead before your visit. Since seating is limited, reservations are a must.

Cafe Prima Pasta

The Cea family has run Cafe Prima Pasta in North Beach since 1993, with patriarch Arturo in the kitchen and matriarch Carla still making the desserts daily. That dedication and love shows up on the plate, and is a big reason why the restaurant has been a staple in the neighborhood for over 30 years.

The lobster ravioli, stuffed with lobster meat in a creamy saffron sauce with diced shrimp, has been a favorite since the beginning. The polpo alla Toscana, sautéed octopus with potatoes, cannellini beans and a wine reduction, is another dish locals always come back for.

Ezio's

Carlo Mirarchi and Brandon Hoy, who built Roberta's into a Brooklyn pizza institution, named their North Beach steakhouse for Mirarchi's father. Ezio's sits on the ground floor of 72 Park, where the kitchen centers on three things: a raw bar of locally sourced seafood, a variety of house-made pastas and a dry-aging technique in which prime cuts are aged for up to 60 days. 

The linguine cacio e pepe, made with Pecorino Romano and Tellicherry pepper, is a unique version of a dish that rarely gets a remix, while the 27-ounce bone-in ribeye, aged 55 days, anchors the steak options.