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Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward 47 places · area 1 of 9

1 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

The Mai-Kai

Since 1956 the grandest surviving mid-century tiki palace in America — reopened late 2024 after a four-year, $20M+ restoration; gardens, fire-dancers and a vintage rum menu.
Look for Order: Mai-Kai rum barrel & Barrel O' Rum tiki cocktails with the Polynesian show
3599 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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2 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Bonnet House Museum & Gardens

The 1920s Caribbean-plantation-style waterfront estate of artists Frederic and Evelyn Bartlett, between the Intracoastal and the beach.
900 N Birch Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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3 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Stranahan House

Built 1901 as Frank Stranahan's trading post — the oldest surviving structure in Broward County, now a museum.
335 SE 6th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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4 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

A 2½-mile 1950s-flavoured beachfront promenade of mom-and-pop shops and ice-cream parlours, with free music at the Hollywood Beach Theatre.
Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, Hollywood, FL

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5 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Hugh Taylor Birch State Park

180 acres of Old Florida hammock and mangrove between the ocean and the Intracoastal — paddling, trails, picnic lawns.
3109 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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6 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

The Katherine

Chef Timon Balloo's globe-trotting small-plates room — the Fort Lauderdale pick of three separate guides.
Look for Order: Trini oxtail with Haitian pikliz; heirloom tomatoes in coconut vinaigrette
723 E Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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7 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (Guitar Hotel)

The Seminole Tribe's 450-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, casino and Hard Rock Live arena — Broward's most improbable landmark.
1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, FL

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8 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Broward's flagship art museum on Las Olas — 7,500+ works incl. the largest US collection of CoBrA art and William Glackens; free first Thursdays.
Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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9 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Larb Thai-Isan

Michelin-recommended (2026); the Infatuation calls it the best Thai restaurant in South Florida.
Look for Order: Isan larb, northeastern Thai
6234 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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10 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Southport Raw Bar

Porthole-doored, no-frills raw bar on the Intracoastal, unchanged since the 1970s — a Fort Lauderdale locals' legend for half a century.
Look for Order: Peel-and-eat shrimp, raw oysters and clams
1536 Cordova Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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11 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Rustic Inn Crabhouse

Open since 1955 by the airport canal: wooden mallets, paper-covered tables and the famous garlic crabs.
Look for Order: Garlic crabs — steamed blue crabs cracked with a mallet on newspaper
4331 Anglers Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Funky Buddha Brewery

South Florida's largest taproom (20+ drafts) and brewhouse tours — the brewery that put Broward craft beer on the national map.
Look for Order: Floridian hefeweizen and the Maple Bacon Coffee Porter
1201 NE 38th St, Oakland Park, FL

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13 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Anthony's Runway 84

Airport-themed Italian supper club since 1982, reborn — on New Times' 16 best FTL and reviewed by Time Out.
Look for Order: Red-sauce Italian and martinis in a 1980s 'gangster-level' supper club
330 W State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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14 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Tropical Acres Steakhouse

Long-running family steakhouse — on both New Times' old-school FTL and The Infatuation's classic FTL lists.
Look for Order: Old-school steaks in a family-run Broward steakhouse
2500 Griffin Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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15 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Jack's Old Fashioned Hamburger House

Retro burger counter that New Times called the South's most legendary burger joint — an Infatuation classic too.
Look for Order: Fresh-ground old-fashioned burgers and milkshakes
Oakland Park, FL

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16 Must see within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Billy's Stone Crab

Hollywood's dockside stone-crab house, on New Times' best-in-Hollywood list and Visit Lauderdale's seafood guide.
Look for Order: Fresh-cracked stone crab claws with Billy's signature mustard sauce (Oct–May season)
Hollywood, FL (Intracoastal waterfront)

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Heritage

Michelin Bib Gourmand (2025, retained 2026): chef Rino Cerbone's Italian.
Look for Order: Wood-fired pizza, handmade pasta
903 NE 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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18 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Cap's Place

Broward's oldest restaurant — a 1920s Prohibition speakeasy and casino on a barrier island, reached only by the house launch; on the National Register.
Look for Order: Hearts of palm salad and fresh fish, arrived by the restaurant's own boat
2765 NE 28th Ct, Lighthouse Point, FL

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19 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Museum of Discovery and Science

200+ hands-on exhibits, live-animal habitats and a five-storey IMAX on the Riverwalk.
401 SW 2nd St, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Flamingo Gardens

60-acre botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary with some of Florida's largest, oldest trees and a 1930s house museum.
3750 S Flamingo Rd, Davie, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Butterfly World

The 'Butterfly Capital of the World': 20,000 butterflies and birds in screened aviaries and gardens.
3600 W Sample Rd, Coconut Creek, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Gabose

The founding landmark of Lauderhill's little Koreatown, Broward's Korean-food cluster.
Look for Order: Charcoal Korean barbecue at the table; soju and pub grub at sister Gabose Pocha
Lauderhill, FL

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23 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale

A brick promenade along the New River past mansions, the Stranahan House and riverside bars.
Riverwalk, New River, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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24 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Jungle Queen Riverboat

Sternwheeler sightseeing cruises up the New River since 1935 — 'Venice of America' mansions from the water.
801 Seabreeze Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Deerfield Beach

Broward's north-end beach with the International Fishing Pier and a laid-back boardwalk.

Deerfield Beach, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Pompano Beach

Wide beach with the rebuilt Fisher Family Pier and some of Broward's best shore diving and fishing.

Pompano Beach, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Hillsboro Beach & Hillsboro Inlet Light

Quiet barrier-island beach beneath the 1907 Hillsboro Inlet lighthouse, one of the most powerful on the East Coast.

Hillsboro Beach, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Dania Beach

Old-Florida beach town with a fishing pier and quiet sand between Port Everglades and Hollywood.

Dania Beach, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park

310-acre barrier-island park (formerly John U. Lloyd) named for the civil-rights leaders who desegregated Broward's beaches — Whiskey Creek paddling, nature trails, beach.

Dania Beach, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Everglades Holiday Park

Broward's Everglades airboat park where Animal Planet's 'Gator Boys' was filmed — airboat rides and gator shows.

western Broward County (Fort Lauderdale), FL

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Lester's Diner

Open 24/7 since 1967–68 — a neon-lit 'retro since it was new' roadside greasy spoon with enormous plates.

Look for Order: 24-hour diner breakfast under the neon

250 W State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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32 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Georgia Pig BBQ & Restaurant

Log-cabin barbecue shack serving since 1953 — one of Broward's last roadside originals.

Look for Order: Pit-smoked pulled-pork sandwich and Brunswick stew

1285 W State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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33 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Laspada's Original Hoagies

Hoagie counter since 1973 that South Florida treats as the benchmark Italian sub.

Look for Order: Italian hoagie on fresh-baked bread, piled to order

4346 Seagrape Dr, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, FL

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Casa Sensei

Pan-Asian/Latin fusion with a canal-side deck where water-taxi riders dock for dinner.

Look for Order: Japanese-Latin sushi rolls and robata on the New River

1200 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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35 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Steak 954

Beachfront steakhouse in the W Fort Lauderdale with the city's most-photographed jellyfish tank.

Look for Order: Prime steaks beside a wall-length jellyfish aquarium, facing the beach

401 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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36 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Invasive Species Brewing

Flagler Village locals' brewery with a weekend food truck out front.

Look for Order: Bold stouts, IPAs and inventive sours under the taxidermy

726 NE 2nd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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37 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Coconuts

Waterfront seafood deck on the Intracoastal by the beach.

Look for Order: Caribbean-tinged seafood on the Intracoastal

429 Seabreeze Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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38 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Takato

Japanese-Korean beachside restaurant on both New Times' and The Infatuation's FTL lists.

Look for Order: Short-rib kimchi tacos, kimchi fried rice and steaks

Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL

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39 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Greek Islands Taverna

Family-run Greek taverna on A1A, a decades-old Fort Lauderdale favourite.

Look for Order: Whole grilled fish, lamb and Greek salads

3300 N Ocean Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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40 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

S3 (Sun Surf Sand)

Beachfront restaurant-lounge on A1A — on New Times' 13 best FTL beach and Fodor's lists.

Look for Order: Sushi, seafood and shared plates facing the beach

505 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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41 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Casablanca Café

Ocean-view café just off A1A — on New Times' FTL beach list and Fodor's.

Look for Order: Mediterranean plates on a porch above the ocean

3049 Alhambra St, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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42 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Top Hat Deli

Shiny modern Jewish deli by downtown Fort Lauderdale.

Look for Order: Matzo brei, bagels & lox and challah French toast

415 NE 3rd St, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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43 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Mimi's Ravioli

Italian-American grocery making pasta since 1970, when Joe and Mimi Termine brought ravioli machines down from New York.

Look for Order: Fresh ravioli from its own pasta factory next door; Italian deli subs

5714 Johnson St, Hollywood, FL

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44 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Dolce Salato Pizza & Gelato

Wilton Drive's Italian pizzeria-gelateria — some of South Florida's best Neapolitan pizza.

Look for Order: Floppy, chewy Neapolitan pizza and house gelato

2406 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors, FL

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45 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

3 Sons Brewing Co.

Award-winning brewery with a spacious modern taproom and brick-oven pizza.

Look for Order: Dopealicious hazy IPA, S'Mortal Kombat imperial stout and wood-fired Neapolitan pizza

Dania Beach, FL (minutes from FLL)

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46 Worth the detour within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Evelyn's

Michelin-recommended (2026) Eastern Mediterranean at the Four Seasons, chef Brandon Salomon.

Look for Order: Eastern Mediterranean mezze

525 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL

47 Deep cut within Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward

Il Paesano

Italian market-restaurant — a New Times hidden gem and Infatuation FTL pick.

Look for Order: Antipasti and pasta from an Italian market kitchen

Fort Lauderdale, FL

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North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens 29 places · area 2 of 9

long view of the beach — Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

1 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Haulover Beach

Wide family beach between Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles — kite flying since 1992, a skate park, and a clothing-optional section to the north.

10800 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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2 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Ancient Spanish Monastery

A 12th-century Cistercian cloister from Segovia, bought by William Randolph Hearst, shipped in crates and reassembled in North Miami Beach.

16711 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL

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3 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Oleta River State Park

Florida's largest urban park: 1,000+ acres of mangrove estuary with kayaking, paddleboarding and 15 miles of mountain-bike trails.

3400 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL

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4 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Opa-locka City Hall

Glenn Curtiss's 1926 Arabian Nights city: the domed, minaretted Moorish Revival city hall is the starting point for a tour of ~90 Moorish buildings.

777 Sharazad Blvd, Opa-locka, FL

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5 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Mutra

One Michelin star (2026) — the first kosher restaurant in the world to earn a Michelin star.

Look for Order: Kosher tasting menu

North Miami, FL

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6 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Awash Ethiopian Restaurant

Miami-Dade's only brick-and-mortar Ethiopian restaurant — reviewed by The Infatuation and a top pick of creator Josiah Eats.

Look for Order: Awash platter — nine stews and vegetables (doro wat, kitfo, shiro) on injera

19934 NW 2nd Ave, Miami Gardens, FL

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7 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Captain Jim's Seafood Market & Restaurant

Fish-market-restaurant ranked #1 in New Times' North Miami list and one of The Infatuation's 13 best seafood spots.

Look for Order: Fresh-caught fish fried, grilled or blackened, from the market counter

North Miami, FL

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8 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Steve's Pizza

North Miami's old-school pizzeria since 1974 — arcade games, late hours, a 50th anniversary in 2024.

Look for Order: Sweet-sauced NY-style slices with cupped pepperoni, served late

North Miami, FL (Biscayne Blvd)

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9 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Perl by Chef IP

New Times' Best Restaurant in Aventura 2025: private chef Isaac Perlman's Japanese-Mediterranean room with a rooftop terrace.

Look for Order: Kampachi crudo, chicken katsu sandwich and grilled hearts of palm

Aventura, FL (off Miami Gardens Dr)

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10 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

L.C. Roti Shop

Half-century-old Trinidadian roti shop — Infatuation's best roti in Miami; on GMCVB's hidden-gem list.

Look for Order: Trini roti made to order — conch, shrimp, duck, goat or curry chicken

Miami Gardens, FL (near Hard Rock Stadium)

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11 Must see within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens · Peruvian & ceviche

Barra Callao

New Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026: tiny counter-service Peruvian seafood bar in a North Miami Beach strip mall.

Look for Order: Ceviche made to order

17034 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL

North Miami FL Museum of Cont Art01 — Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

12 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA)

Contemporary art museum with ~500 works and free last-Friday Jazz at MOCA concerts.

770 NE 125th St, North Miami, FL

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13 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Arch Creek Park

A natural limestone bridge over Arch Creek, Tequesta archaeological site and nature centre.

1855 NE 135th St, North Miami, FL

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14 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Lutong Pinoy Filipino Cuisine

North Miami Beach's go-to Filipino kitchen.

Look for Order: Sizzling sisig, kare-kare and the offal dishes (pig-heart stew) from a huge Filipino menu

17048 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL

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15 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Hard Rock Stadium

Home of the Miami Dolphins and the Hurricanes; Super Bowl LIV and the Miami Grand Prix circuit.

347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL

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16 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Aventura Mall & Slide Tower

One of America's largest malls, with a public art programme — Carsten Höller's 93-ft spiral Aventura Slide Tower is a rideable sculpture.

19501 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura, FL

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17 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

King Palace Chinese BBQ

Hanging red ducks and live-seafood tanks on the 163rd Street corridor — the Cantonese BBQ of record.

Look for Order: Cantonese roast duck and char siu; wonton soup

North Miami Beach, FL

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18 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Korean Kitchen

Plaza Korean spot with an outdoor courtyard styled after Seoul street stalls.

Look for Order: Budae jjigae (army stew) and bibimbap in a pojangmacha-style courtyard

North Miami Beach, FL

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19 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Farofa Taste of Brazil

Affordable Brazilian grill counter — on The Infatuation's best NMB restaurants and a hidden-gem pick of creator Josiah Eats (500K+ followers).

Look for Order: Counter-service Brazilian grilled meats (churrasco by the plate)

14691 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami Beach, FL

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20 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Dumpling King

163rd/167th Street dumpling counter — on The Infatuation's best dumplings and Josiah Eats' hidden gems.

Look for Order: Giant pan-fried dumplings with a crisp 'spiderweb' crust; soup dumplings

237 NE 167th St, North Miami Beach, FL

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21 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Zaika Indian Cuisine

South-Indian-leaning North Miami kitchen — Infatuation-reviewed and a Josiah Eats favourite.

Look for Order: Tandoori wings, Kerala pepper chicken, goat biryani and tandoori momos

2176 NE 123rd St, North Miami, FL

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22 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Sang's Chinese Food

The dumpling king of Miami's 163rd Street 'Chinatown' strip.

Look for Order: Daily handmade dim sum — 40+ plates, 11am–4pm

1925 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL

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23 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Pho Mi 2 Go

Tiny Vietnamese counter — Infatuation calls its pho the best in Miami.

Look for Order: Bánh mì and pho

17010 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL

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24 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Basilic Vietnamese Grill

Family-run Vietnamese grill on Biscayne.

Look for Order: Star-anise pho, green-papaya salad and fresh spring rolls

14734 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami Beach, FL

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25 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Chéen-Huaye

'Only here' in Mayan — North Miami Beach's long-running Yucatecan kitchen, a multiple Best of Miami winner.

Look for Order: Carne asada a la Yucateca, cochinita-style Mayan dishes and parrillada

15400 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami Beach, FL

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26 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Etzel Itzik Deli

Affordable breakfast-and-lunch Israeli deli — 'might be the best Israeli spot in town' (Infatuation).

Look for Order: Israeli breakfast, shakshuka and laffa-wrapped shawarma

18757 W Dixie Hwy, Miami (Aventura), FL

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27 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

CY Chinese Restaurant

One of the anchors of the 163rd Street Chinese strip — a rare Miami hot-pot specialist.

Look for Order: Sichuan-style hot pot and northern Chinese plates

North Miami, FL (NE 163rd St corridor)

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28 Worth the detour within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Chayhana Oasis

Excellent Uzbek and Central Eurasian kitchen where Sunny Isles turns Slavic and Central Asian.

Look for Order: Lamb-and-pumpkin manty, plov and lagman noodles

250 Sunny Isles Blvd, Sunny Isles Beach, FL

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29 Deep cut within North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens

Greynolds Park

1930s county park with a rock-built 'castle' mound, a rookery and a 1964 nine-hole course.

17530 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL

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Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo 40 places · area 3 of 9

1 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Rubell Museum

One of the largest private contemporary-art collections in the world (7,200+ works), in Allapattah — with two Kusama Infinity Mirror Rooms.

1100 NW 23rd St, Miami, FL

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2 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)

Free contemporary art museum in the Design District, with a sculpture garden.

61 NE 41st St, Miami, FL

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3 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Wynwood Walls

Tony Goldman's 2009 outdoor street-art museum that turned Wynwood's warehouses into the world's mural capital.

2516 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

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Miami Design District

Luxury flagships threaded with serious public art and architecture — Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome, the Le Corbusier-inspired garage.

NE 39th–41st St, Miami, FL

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Mache Ayisyen Caribbean Marketplace (part of the cultural complex campus) — Photo: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer · Public domain · loc.gov

5 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Little Haiti Cultural Complex

Haitian arts centre with galleries, a 300-seat theatre, the Saturday Caribbean Marketplace and the monthly Big Night in Little Haiti Kreyòl concerts.

Little Haiti, Miami, FL

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6 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon Miami

Miami's only two-Michelin-star restaurant (2026 Florida guide): Robuchon's counter-dining format in the Design District.

Look for Order: Chef's counter tasting menu

151 NE 41st St, Miami, FL

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7 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Boia De

One Michelin star (2026): the strip-mall Italian in Little River that became one of Miami's hardest reservations.

Look for Order: Handmade pastas

Little River, Miami, FL

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8 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Chez Le Bebe

Little Haiti griot specialist — crunchy fried pork with pikliz, huge plates for under $10.

Look for Order: Griot with pikliz

114 NE 54th St, Miami, FL

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9 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Chef Creole

Wilkinson 'Ken' Sejour's Haitian-Bahamian seafood counter — 'if you want to talk Haitian food, you start at Chef Creole'; Anthony Bourdain filmed here for No Reservations.

Look for Order: Griot, conch salad, fried snapper

200 NW 54th St, Miami, FL

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10 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Enriqueta's Sandwich Shop

Family-run old-school Cuban lunch counter holding out amid Edgewater/Wynwood's towers — sandwiches stuffed with croquetas.

Look for Order: Cubano preparado con croquetas, Cuban breakfast

186 NE 29th St, Miami, FL

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11 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Walrus Rodeo

32-seat wood-oven spot from Boia De's Luciana Giangrandi & Alex Meyer — on the New York Times' 50 best US restaurants (2024) and The Infatuation's Miami 25.

Look for Order: Wood-fired lamb-ragù lasagna, charbroiled oysters and the 'Spicy OG' pizza

Little Haiti, Miami, FL

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Hiyakawa

Wynwood Japanese counter built on Toyosu-market fish — New Times' Best Restaurant Wynwood 2021, on The Infatuation's 25.

Look for Order: Omakase of micro-seasonal fish flown in from Tokyo's Toyosu market

N Miami Ave & NW 27th St, Wynwood, Miami, FL

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13 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Pack Supermarket

Three-decade Little Haiti/Little River grocery hot-counter — a Sunday-morning community hub; on The Infatuation's best Haitian and most-classic lists.

Look for Order: Haitian fried chicken, griot, pikliz and smashed fried plantains; legume stew

Little River, Miami, FL

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14 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo · Coffee & cafés

Panther Coffee

Miami's homegrown specialty roaster (since 2010) that defined third-wave coffee in the city; several branches.

Look for Order: House-roasted single-origin espresso and pour-overs

Wynwood, Miami, FL

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15 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Cervecería La Tropical

Revival of Havana's historic La Tropical brewery with a tropical beer garden — beer with Cuban nostalgia.

Look for Order: Cuban-style lagers in a lush beer garden

Wynwood, Miami, FL

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16 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Mandolin Aegean Bistro

Michelin Bib Gourmand: Greek-Turkish cooking in a whitewashed 1940s house and garden.

Look for Order: Aegean mezze in a cottage garden

4312 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

17 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Michael's Genuine Food & Drink

Michelin Bib Gourmand: James Beard winner Michael Schwartz's Design District pioneer (2007).

Look for Order: Wood-oven seasonal plates

130 NE 40th St, Miami, FL

18 Must see within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Zak the Baker

Zak Stern's Wynwood sourdough bakery — a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the inaugural 2022 Florida guide.

Look for Order: Sourdough, babka, kosher bakery-café

295 NW 26th St, Miami, FL

19 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Superblue Miami

50,000 sq ft of immersive art — teamLab, James Turrell, Es Devlin rooms that respond to movement and sound.

Allapattah (opposite the Rubell Museum), Miami, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Museum of Graffiti

The world's first museum dedicated to graffiti art, in Wynwood.

276 NW 26th St, Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Bakehouse Art Complex

A 1920s industrial bakery turned (since 1985) into ~100 artists' studios and galleries — open studios show Wynwood before the murals.

561 NW 32nd St, Miami, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Haitian Heritage Museum

Two decades of Haitian art, artifacts, music and film in the Design District.

4141 NE 2nd Ave #105C, Miami (Design District), FL

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23 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Margaret Pace Park

8-acre bayfront park among Edgewater's towers — waterfront promenade, courts and a dog park.

Edgewater, Miami, FL (on Biscayne Bay)

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24 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Cote Miami

One Michelin star (2026): the Miami outpost of the New York Korean steakhouse.

Look for Order: Korean BBQ butcher's feast

3900 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

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25 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Hiden

One Michelin star (2026): an eight-seat omakase hidden behind a Wynwood taco counter.

Look for Order: Omakase behind a taco shop

313 NW 25th St, Miami, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Le Jardinier Miami

One Michelin star (2026): garden-led French dining in the Design District.

Look for Order: Vegetable-forward French

151 NE 41st St, Miami, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Ogawa

One Michelin star (2026): a serene Japanese omakase in Little River.

Look for Order: Kyoto-style omakase

7223 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Amara at Paraiso

Michael Schwartz's bayfront Latin restaurant in Edgewater — James Beard 2026 semifinalist for Outstanding Wine & Beverages.

Look for Order: Wood-fired Latin seafood on the bay

3101 NE 7th Ave, Edgewater, Miami, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Bar Kaiju

Little River neighbourhood bar on both outlets' best-bars lists.

Look for Order: Cocktails and late-night snacks in Little River

Little River, Miami, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Veza Sur Brewing Co.

Latin-American-themed Wynwood brewery from Bogotá Beer Company and 10 Barrel founders.

Look for Order: Latin-inspired lagers and sours with rare fruit

Wynwood, Miami, FL

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31 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Coyo Taco

Wynwood taquería with a hidden late-night bar out back — Time Out's best tacos list and Infatuation-reviewed.

Look for Order: Tacos, plus a hidden late-night bar out back

Wynwood, Miami, FL

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32 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Plaza Seafood Market

Allapattah fish market frying since 1980 — one of the city's best fried-seafood counters.

Look for Order: Overstuffed takeout boxes of fried seafood with the house pink sauce, tostones and rice

3114 NW 17th Ave, Miami (Allapattah), FL

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33 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Caracas Bakery

Venezuelan bakery on Biscayne in the MiMo district — on both Time Out's and Infatuation's best-bakery lists.

Look for Order: Venezuelan pan de jamón, cachitos and golfeados

Biscayne Blvd (MiMo), Miami, FL

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34 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

El Turco

Michelin Bib Gourmand Turkish restaurant.

Look for Order: Turkish grill and mezze

184 NE 50th Terrace, Miami, FL

35 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Hometown Barbecue Miami

Michelin Bib Gourmand: the Brooklyn barbecue institution's Miami pit in Allapattah.

Look for Order: Brisket and pork belly

Allapattah, Miami, FL

36 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

La Natural

Michelin Bib Gourmand neighbourhood restaurant in Little River.

Look for Order: Seasonal Latin plates

7289 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

37 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Phuc Yea

Michelin Bib Gourmand Viet-Cajun spot on Biscayne Boulevard.

Look for Order: Cajun-Viet crab fried rice

MiMo District, Miami, FL

38 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Double Luck

New Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026: creative Chinese classics in a dim Upper East Side room.

Look for Order: Crispy crab-leg rangoon, Hennessy orange chicken

1085 NE 79th St, Miami, FL

39 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Sunny's Steakhouse

Michelin-recommended (2025) Little River steakhouse in an Old Florida garden setting.

Look for Order: Old-Florida steakhouse with pasta

Little River, Miami, FL

40 Worth the detour within Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo

Doya

Aegean meze house in Wynwood — Michelin Bib Gourmand (2022).

Look for Order: Aegean meze from the wood grill

Wynwood, Miami, FL

Downtown, Brickell & Overtown 36 places · area 4 of 9

1 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Freedom Tower

1925 Giralda-style tower built for the Miami News; 1962–74 the Cuban Refugee Center that processed ~300,000 exiles — the 'Ellis Island of the South'. National Historic Landmark (2008).

600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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2 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown · Peruvian & ceviche

Cvi.che 105

Chef Juan Chipoco's downtown Peruvian — New Times Best Ceviche 2024; on Infatuation and Time Out's Peruvian lists.

Look for Order: Ceviche in leche de tigre or rocoto

105 NE 3rd Ave, Miami, FL

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3 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Garcia's Seafood Grille & Fish Market

Family fish market–restaurant on the Miami River since 1966, buying straight from local boats.

Look for Order: Whole fried yellowtail snapper with tostones; stone crab and lobster in season

398 NW North River Dr, Miami, FL

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4 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Bayfront Park

Downtown's 32-acre waterfront park on Biscayne Bay, with the Noguchi-designed amphitheatre and Challenger memorial.

301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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5 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Pérez Art Museum Miami

PAMM — Miami's flagship contemporary art museum in a Herzog & de Meuron building with hanging gardens on the bay.

1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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museum exterior from causeway — Photo: Beanjamin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

6 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Science museum, planetarium and a three-level aquarium with an oculus looking up into the Gulf Stream tank.

1101 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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7 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Miami's $500M César Pelli performing-arts centre — Broadway, opera, ballet and the Art Deco Sears tower preserved on its plaza.

1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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8 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Metromover

Free elevated people-mover with 21 stations — the best (and cheapest) skyline ride through downtown and Brickell.

Downtown & Brickell loops, Miami, FL

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9 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Elcielo Miami

One Michelin star (2026): chef Juan Manuel Barrientos' Colombian tasting menu on the Miami River in Brickell.

Look for Order: Colombian tasting menu

31 SE 5th St, Miami, FL

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10 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Over Under

A funky, divey ode to Old Florida on Flagler Street — the downtown bar both Time Out and The Infatuation send you to.

Look for Order: Florida-themed cocktails and a sour-orange pie

151 E Flagler St, Miami, FL

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11 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

The River Oyster Bar

Brickell's long-running oyster bar by the Miami River — on The Infatuation's 13 best seafood and Time Out's Brickell lists.

Look for Order: Raw oysters, crudo and seafood towers

Brickell, Miami, FL

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12 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

NAOE

A five-seat counter — Miami's longest-running Japanese omakase 'and still its best' (Infatuation); in a 2026 world ranking (Time Out).

Look for Order: Chef Kevin Cory's omakase with sake and soy sauce from his family's Japanese brewery

Brickell Key, Miami, FL

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13 Must see within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Tâm Tâm

Michelin Bib Gourmand — heads Miami's Bib list; Vietnamese cooking in a tiny downtown room.

Look for Order: Phở and Vietnamese home cooking

99 NW 1st St, Miami, FL

14 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Olympia Theater

John Eberson's 1926 atmospheric movie palace for Paramount — stars twinkle on the ceiling; a Miami Film Festival venue.

174 E Flagler St, Miami, FL

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15 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Jungle Island

18-acre tropical zoological park on Watson Island — the successor to Parrot Jungle, with sloths, lemurs, flamingos and macaws.

Watson Island, Miami, FL

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16 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

HistoryMiami Museum

South Florida's history museum in the Cultural Plaza; it also manages the Miami Circle.

101 W Flagler St, Miami, FL

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17 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Miami Circle

A 2,000-year-old Tequesta circle of 24 post-holes cut into limestone at the mouth of the Miami River, found in 1998. National Historic Landmark.

401 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL

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18 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Historic Lyric Theater (Black Archives)

Overtown's 1913 theatre at the heart of 'Little Broadway', where Count Basie, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin played; now the Black Archives' home.

819 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

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AAAMiami — Photo: Averette · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

19 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Kaseya Center

Bayfront home arena of the Miami Heat and the city's big-concert stage.

601 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Brickell Key

Small man-made island off Brickell with a waterfront perimeter path — the neighbourhood's quiet escape.

Brickell Key, Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

The Underline

Linear park and trail being built beneath the Metrorail — the Brickell Backyard section has gyms, gardens and the Oolite Room.

Under the Metrorail, Brickell, Miami, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

D. A. Dorsey House

Home of Dana A. Dorsey, Florida's first Black millionaire, who built Overtown one rental house per parcel — NRHP-listed (1989).

250 NW 9th St, Miami, FL

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23 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Bayside Marketplace

Open-air waterfront market on Biscayne Bay — live music daily, bay-cruise docks and the downtown skyline.

401 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL

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24 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Gesù Church

Miami's oldest institution still on its original site — the 1924 Mediterranean Revival Jesuit church designed by Owen Williams of Palm Beach.

NE 2nd St, Downtown Miami, FL

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25 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Alfred I. duPont Building

Miami's only Art Deco skyscraper (1939) — black-granite base and a lavish lobby with bronze elevator doors of egrets, herons and ibises.

Flagler St, Downtown Miami, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Ingraham Building

Schultze & Weaver's 1927 Flagler-era office tower — Florentine eaves, bronze doors and a hand-painted lobby ceiling.

Downtown Miami, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

ViceVersa

Michelin-recommended (2025) Neapolitan pizza in an intimate downtown room; its burger is on New Times' best-burgers list.

Look for Order: Neapolitan pizza; the much-talked-about burger

Downtown Miami, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Lost Boy Dry Goods

Old-dry-goods-store bar that helped revive downtown's Flagler Street after dark.

Look for Order: Spirit-forward cocktails in a Flagler Street shop-front

157 E Flagler St, Miami, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

The Corner

Bartenders' after-shift bar on the edge of Park West — open later than nearly anywhere.

Look for Order: Late-night beers and well drinks in the 24-hour club district

1035 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Mama Tried

Downtown dive-cocktail bar with a jukebox and a cult bartender following.

Look for Order: Rock-and-roll dive cocktails downtown

207 NE 1st St, Miami, FL

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31 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Soya e Pomodoro

Family-owned downtown trattoria since 2004 — 'a Downtown Miami Italian classic that still feels like a secret'.

Look for Order: Fresh pastas, eggplant parm and pear-ricotta fazzoletti, with occasional live jazz

120 NE 1st St, Miami, FL

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32 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

LPM Restaurant & Bar

Chic French-Riviera dining room in Brickell since 2017; Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence 2025.

Look for Order: Escargot and the burrata-free corn salad with pomegranate

1300 Brickell Bay Dr, Miami, FL

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33 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

NIU Kitchen

Tiny downtown Catalan kitchen with date-night energy; natural-wine sister bar NIU Wine a few doors down.

Look for Order: Cold tomato soup with frozen mustard ice cream and Catalan small plates

Downtown Miami, FL

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34 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Eleventh Street Pizza

Downtown NY-style slice shop on both outlets' downtown lists.

Look for Order: Foldable-yet-firm sourdough New York slices

NE 11th St, Downtown Miami, FL

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35 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Sugar

Brickell's rooftop jungle-garden bar with 360° views of downtown and Biscayne Bay; DJs after dark.

Look for Order: Sunset cocktails 40 floors up in an Asian-inspired garden

East Hotel (40th floor), Brickell, Miami, FL

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36 Worth the detour within Downtown, Brickell & Overtown

Red Rooster Overtown

Marcus Samuelsson's Overtown outpost of Harlem's Red Rooster — Michelin Bib Gourmand (2022).

Look for Order: Fried yardbird, Overtown soul food

Overtown, Miami, FL

Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade 34 places · area 5 of 9

1 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Versailles Restaurant

Little Havana's landmark since 1971 — New Times calls its ventanita 'ground zero for coffee culture in Miami'; Michelin-recommended.

Look for Order: Cafecito at the ventanita, croquetas, Cuban sandwich

3555 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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2 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Bay of Pigs Museum (Brigade 2506)

Veterans' museum of the 1961 invasion — its prize is the Brigade 2506 flag JFK held up at the Orange Bowl in 1962.

1821 SW 9th St, Little Havana, Miami, FL

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3 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Sanguich de Miami

Michelin Bib Gourmand and New Times' Best Cuban Sandwich 2024 — the modern standard-bearer for the Cubano on Calle Ocho.

Look for Order: The Cubano — week-marinated pork, house-brined ham, house bread

2057 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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4 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street)

The heart of Cuban Miami: cigar rollers, ventanitas, giant painted roosters and the Walk of Fame stars for Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan.

SW 8th St, Little Havana, Miami, FL

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grandstand building — Photo: Phillip Pessar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

5 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Hialeah Park Race Track

1925 racetrack on the National Register — 200 acres of royal palms, a casino, quarter-horse racing and its famous Audubon-sanctuary colony of pink flamingos.

2200 E 4th Ave, Hialeah, FL

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6 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

El Mago de las Fritas

Ortelio 'El Mago' Cárdenas' frita counter — New Times' best frita cubana, Eater 38 'best fritas in Miami', and where President Obama ordered fritas in 2010.

Look for Order: Frita cubana / frita confundida

5828 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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7 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Islas Canarias Restaurant

Croqueta king since 1977 — the Infatuation's pick for Miami's best croquetas, and 'the most Miami drive-thru'.

Look for Order: Ham croquetas (and the drive-thru)

13695 SW 26th St, Miami, FL

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8 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Cafe La Trova

Cantinero Julio Cabrera's Havana-style cocktail bar with JBF-winner Michelle Bernstein's kitchen and live trova — recognised by the Florida Michelin Guide.

Look for Order: Julio Cabrera's daiquiris, Michelle Bernstein's ropa vieja

971 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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9 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Ball & Chain

Calle Ocho's 1935 jazz-and-salsa saloon revived — nightly live bands and a back-patio stage shaped like a pineapple.

Look for Order: Live Cuban music with a mojito or the pineapple-window cocktails

1513 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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10 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

El Rey de las Fritas

The Calle Ocho frita counter of record since the 1970s; batidos and fritas at the horseshoe bar.

Look for Order: The frita — Cuban chorizo-spiced burger under a heap of shoestring potatoes

1821 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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11 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

La Camaronera

Family fish market turned standing-room seafood counter (since 1966) — home of the pan con minuta.

Look for Order: Pan con minuta — fried snapper sandwich on Cuban bread; fried shrimp

1952 W Flagler St, Miami, FL

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12 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Ricky Bakery Coral Way

Ranked Miami's best pastelito (defined puff-pastry layers) in The Infatuation's Pastelito Power Rankings.

Look for Order: Guava-and-cheese pastelitos — The Infatuation's #1 in Miami

3115 SW 22nd St, Miami, FL

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13 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Madroño Restaurant

Family-recipe Nicaraguan kitchen (since 1998) in 'Little Managua' Sweetwater — on The Infatuation's 25 best in Miami; New Times' Best Nicaraguan.

Look for Order: Nicaraguan fritanga plates — carne asada, gallo pinto, maduros, quesillo

W Flagler St, Sweetwater, FL

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14 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Arbetter's Hot Dogs

Miami hot-dog stand since 1959 (first on West Flagler, now Bird Road) — New Times' Best Hot Dog 2024 and an Infatuation classic.

Look for Order: Chili dog with onions — cheap and no-frills

8747 SW 40th St (Bird Rd), Miami, FL

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15 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Frankie's Pizza

Miami's first pizzeria (70 years) under a blinking neon sign on Bird Road — a slice of local history.

Look for Order: Square pies baked in the original Steubenville pans

9118 Bird Rd, Miami, FL

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16 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Tropical Chinese Restaurant

Westchester's dim-sum hall, Miami's benchmark for rolling carts for decades.

Look for Order: Cart dim sum — pork buns, shrimp siu mai, egg tarts, chicken feet (50+ items)

7991 SW 40th St, Miami, FL

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17 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Azucar Ice Cream Company

Little Havana's most famous scoop shop — Cuban-inspired flavours under the giant cone sign on Calle Ocho.

Look for Order: Abuela Maria ice cream (guava, cream cheese & Maria cookies) and mamey

1503 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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18 Must see within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Pinolandia

The iconic 24-hour Little Havana Nicaraguan fritanga, with a tiny market and juice bar in back.

Look for Order: Marinated carne asada fritanga plates, open 24 hours

Little Havana, Miami, FL

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19 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora

'The Cuban' — exhibitions on the exile experience and Cuban-American art, in a 1930s Coral Way building.

1200 Coral Way, Miami, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Tower Theater

A 1926 Art Deco cinema at Calle Ocho and 15th Ave, still screening films and hosting cultural events.

1508 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Calle Ocho Walk of Fame

Sidewalk stars honouring Latin stars from Celia Cruz to Gloria Estefan along Calle Ocho.

SW 8th St (12th–17th Ave), Miami, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Amelia Earhart Park

515-acre Hialeah park on the old naval air station Earhart flew from — five lakes, the Miami Watersports Complex wakeboard cable, farm village and mountain-bike trails.

Hialeah, FL (unincorporated Miami-Dade, north of Hialeah)

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23 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

La Carreta

Versailles' sister restaurant since the 1970s ('the food is actually better here'); its ventanitas are fixtures across the county.

Look for Order: Home-style Cuban plates, ventanita cafecito

3632 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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24 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

La Esquina del Lechón

Eater 38: 'the pan con lechón is arguably the best in town' — crackling-studded roast pork on Cuban bread.

Look for Order: Pan con lechón

8601 NW 58th St, Doral, FL

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25 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Casa Juancho

Calle Ocho's grand Castilian tavern since 1979, with strolling tunas on weekends.

Look for Order: Old-guard Spanish: jamón, paella, suckling pig

2436 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

El Pub

Old-school Calle Ocho Cuban dining room and cafeteria, open since the 1960s.

Look for Order: Classic Cuban plates — vaca frita, picadillo — under the rooster mural

1548 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Fritanga Caña Brava

A real Nicaraguan fritanga in Little Havana — the neighbourhood's Central American side.

Look for Order: Nicaraguan fritanga — carne asada, gallo pinto, maduros and queso frito off the steam table

Little Havana, Miami, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Breadman Bakery

Hialeah bakery off the Palmetto putting a modern twist on the pastelito.

Look for Order: Ultra-flaky pastelitos stuffed with picadillo & plantain or Nutella & cheese

5804 W 20th Ave, Hialeah, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

S&N Vegetables

Hialeah produce stand–sandwich counter famous for its pan con bistec.

Look for Order: Pan con bistec — among Hialeah's best

Hialeah, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Yambo Restaurant

Gloriously cluttered Nicaraguan 'cowboy carnival' with a giant colourful rooster on the patio.

Look for Order: Baho — yuca, plantain and beef steamed in banana leaves — on the rooster patio

1643 SW 1st St, Little Havana, Miami, FL

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31 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

The Tank Brewing Co.

25,000 sq ft warehouse brewery on the Hialeah–Medley line.

Look for Order: Miami-named core beers — La Finca, La Playita, El Farito IPA — from 16 taps

5100 NW 72nd Ave, Miami (Medley/Hialeah), FL

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32 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

M.I.A. Beer Company (MIA Bruhaus)

Doral taproom of the brewery whose beers are on tap all over town.

Look for Order: Experimental craft beers with croquetas and wings in the family taproom

10400 NW 33rd St, Doral, FL

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33 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Gilbert's Bakery

Westchester Cuban bakery and ventanita — back-to-back Best Cortadito winner.

Look for Order: Pastelitos (NT Best Pastelito 2018) and the cortadito (NT Best Cortadito 2024 & 2025)

5777 SW 40th St, Miami (Westchester), FL

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34 Worth the detour within Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade

Lung Yai Thai Tapas

Tiny, cash-and-queue Thai tapas counter — Michelin Bib Gourmand (2022).

Look for Order: Thai tapas (khao soi, crispy pork)

1731 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour 40 places · area 6 of 9

1 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Española Way

N.B.T. Roney's 1925 'historic Spanish village' — two pink-stucco, tile-roofed blocks of cafés under striped awnings.

Española Way, Miami Beach, FL

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2 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

New World Center & SoundScape Park

Frank Gehry's home for the New World Symphony — free WALLCAST concerts and SoundScape Cinema projected on the façade over the park lawn.

17th St (Lincoln Road area), Miami Beach, FL

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3 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Joe's Stone Crab

Miami Beach's oldest restaurant (1913) and the home of stone crab; open mid-October to mid-May for the season. Eater 38 'original Miami Beach power lunch'.

Look for Order: Stone crab claws with mustard sauce, key lime pie

11 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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Ocean Drive Art Deco streetscape — Photo: Robbschultz69 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

4 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Miami Beach Architectural District (Art Deco Historic District)

The world's largest concentration of 1920s–30s Art Deco buildings, pastel hotels along Ocean Drive — on the National Register.

Your guide’s note Walk Ocean Drive at dusk when the neon comes on.

Ocean Drive & Collins Ave, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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5 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

The Wolfsonian–FIU

Design museum and library in a restored 1927 storage building — 180,000 objects on how design shaped the modern world.

1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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6 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach

Kenneth Treister's 1990 memorial: a 42-ft bronze arm rising from a reflecting pool, ringed by figures and a granite wall of victims' names.

1933-1945 Meridian Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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7 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

The Bass

Miami Beach's contemporary art museum in a 1930s Deco building in Collins Park.

2100 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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Lummus Park with Ocean Drive buildings behind — Photo: Daniel Di Palma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

8 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Lummus Park Beach

The classic South Beach strand in front of Ocean Drive's Art Deco row — lifeguard towers, volleyball, the people-watching beach.

Ocean Dr, 5th–15th St, Miami Beach, FL

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9 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Stubborn Seed

One Michelin star (2026): Top Chef winner Jeremy Ford's South of Fifth tasting room.

Look for Order: Chef Jeremy Ford's tasting menu

101 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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10 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Puerto Sagua

South Beach's beloved Cuban diner counter since 1962 — the one old-Miami holdout among the Collins Avenue tourist traps.

Look for Order: Cubano pressed flat with ultra-thin ham and pickles; ropa vieja at the counter

700 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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11 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Macchialina

Chef Michael Pirolo's rustic Italian trattoria — the South Beach pasta room locals actually book.

Look for Order: Tagliolini with uni, parsley and pepperoncini; broccolini caesar

820 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL

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12 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Sweet Liberty Drinks & Supply Co.

Neighbourhood cocktail bar near Collins Park — the serious-drinks pick on the Beach for both Time Out and The Infatuation.

Look for Order: Classic and house cocktails under the giant disco-era light fixtures

237 20th St, Miami Beach, FL

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13 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Prime 112

Myles Chefetz's 2004 steakhouse in the historic Browns Hotel that reinvented the Miami see-and-be-seen steakhouse.

Look for Order: Chef-driven prime steaks, Kobe hot dogs and martinis

112 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL

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14 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Cafe Prima Pasta

North Beach's Argentine-Italian pasta house since 1993 — everything made in-house.

Look for Order: House-made black linguine and crab-stuffed raviolotti

414 71st St, Miami Beach, FL

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15 Must see within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Broken Shaker

The Freehand hostel's backyard bar that kicked off Miami's craft-cocktail era — Time Out and Infatuation pick.

Look for Order: Seasonal cocktails with garden-grown herbs around the hostel pool

2727 Indian Creek Dr, Miami Beach, FL

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16 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

True Loaf

Sunset Harbour bakery by Venezuelan baker Tomás Strulovic (SF Baking Institute) — rescued by donated sourdough starter from fellow Miami bakers.

Look for Order: Sourdough, croissants and guava pastelitos

1894 Bay Rd, Miami Beach (Sunset Harbour), FL

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17 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Palace Bar

Miami Beach's longest-running gay and drag bar (36+ years) — nightly shows and weekend drag brunches.

Look for Order: Bottomless drag brunch on Ocean Drive

Ocean Dr, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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Lincoln Road pedestrian mall — Photo: Daniel Di Palma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

18 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Lincoln Road Mall

Morris Lapidus' 1960 pedestrian mall — a mile of cafés, shops and people-watching.

Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL

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19 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

South Pointe Park

Waterfront park and pier at the tip of South Beach watching cruise ships slide out of Government Cut.

1 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Miami Beach Botanical Garden

4.5 acres of orchids, a Japanese garden and a living wall beside the Convention Center — free.

2000 Convention Center Dr, Miami Beach, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Jewish Museum of Florida–FIU

Florida Jewish history since 1763, housed in two restored former synagogues in South of Fifth.

301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Villa Casa Casuarina (Versace Mansion)

The 1930 Mediterranean mansion Gianni Versace made famous — now a hotel and restaurant on Ocean Drive.

Ocean Dr at 11th St, Miami Beach, FL

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23 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Morris Lapidus's 1954 MiMo icon — the curving tower, bow-tie floors and the famous 'Staircase to Nowhere'.

Collins Ave (Mid-Beach), Miami Beach, FL

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24 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Miami Beach Post Office

Howard Lovewell Cheney's 1937 'Deco Federal' rotunda with Charles Hardman's 1940 New Deal murals of Ponce de León and de Soto.

Washington Ave, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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25 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt

One Michelin star (2026): German star chef Tristan Brandt's tasting room inside the Carillon on North Beach.

Look for Order: Tasting menu

6801 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Tropezón

Andalusian-style tapas bar from the Jose Mendin/Pubbelly team, spilling onto the Spanish-revival lane.

Look for Order: Spanish tapas and gin-and-tonic creations on Española Way

512 Española Way, Miami Beach, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Mac's Club Deuce

Neon-lit dive pouring since the 1920s/30s — Miami Beach's most storied bar, a jukebox-and-cheap-pours institution.

Look for Order: Cheap pours and the jukebox at Miami Beach's oldest bar

222 14th St, Miami Beach, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery

South Beach's tiki-adjacent rum bar from veteran Miami bartenders.

Look for Order: Rum cocktails and swizzles

Miami Beach, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Monterrey Bar

Small South Beach cocktail bar on Time Out's South Beach list and The Infatuation's best cocktail bars.

Look for Order: Classic cocktails in an intimate South Beach room

South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Brother's Keeper

South Beach dive bar collaboration from local bar-industry veterans.

Look for Order: Beers and shots at a bartender-run dive

South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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31 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Silverlake Bistro

Neighbourhood bistro from the La Fresa Francesa team (Sandy Sanchez & chef Benoit Rablat).

Look for Order: Gnocchi mac & cheese seared in duck fat; brioche burger

1211 71st St, Miami Beach, FL

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32 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Katana

Normandy Isles revolving-sushi bar — a cheap, cheerful Miami Beach classic.

Look for Order: Sushi-go-round plates off a 25-seat circular conveyor bar

920 71st St, Miami Beach, FL

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33 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Mi Colombia

Budget Colombian cafeteria named both a North Beach best and one of The Infatuation's most classic Miami restaurants.

Look for Order: Pollo frito with beans and rice — huge, cheap, crisp

North Beach, Miami Beach, FL

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34 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Papi Steak

South of Fifth's celebrity steakhouse — reopened November 2025 after a Rockwell Group redesign.

Look for Order: Pastrami 'Papi' tomahawk and supper-club deli classics

736 1st St, Miami Beach, FL

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35 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

CJ's Crab Shack

A friendly local-feeling crab shack right on touristy Ocean Drive.

Look for Order: Stone crab claws in season, 'where crabs are king'

600 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL

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36 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Abbalé Telavivian Kitchen

A very good Israeli lunch spot in South of Fifth (Infatuation 7.7).

Look for Order: Tel Aviv-style hummus, sabich and grilled kebabs on the bougainvillea patio

South of Fifth, Miami Beach, FL

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37 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Queen Miami Beach

Opulent Japanese steakhouse inside a restored historic South Beach theatre.

Look for Order: Wagyu and robata from a Japanese steakhouse menu, under the restored theatre dome

South Beach, Miami Beach, FL (historic Paris Theater)

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38 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

MILA

Rooftop Pan-Asian/Mediterranean scene restaurant on both outlets' South Beach best lists.

Look for Order: Rooftop 'MediterrAsian' plates and sushi

Lincoln Road area, Miami Beach, FL

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39 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour · Coffee & cafés

Las Olas Cafe

Old-school South of Fifth Cuban café — on Infatuation's 25 best in South Beach.

Look for Order: Cuban breakfast, cafecito and pressed sandwiches

644 6th St, Miami Beach, FL

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40 Worth the detour within Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour

Lucali

Michelin Bib Gourmand: the Miami Beach branch of Brooklyn's famous Carroll Gardens pizzeria.

Look for Order: Brooklyn-style pies

1930 Bay Rd, Miami Beach, FL

Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne 43 places · area 7 of 9

1 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Crandon Park Beach

Key Biscayne's two-mile family beach with calm water, cabanas and beachside paella.

6747 Crandon Blvd, Key Biscayne, FL

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2 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

The tip of Key Biscayne: a mile of wild beach, nature trails and Miami-Dade's oldest structure, the 1825 Cape Florida Light.

1200 S Crandon Blvd, Key Biscayne, FL

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3 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Biltmore Hotel

1926 Mediterranean Revival grand hotel and South Florida's only National Historic Landmark resort.

1200 Anastasia Ave, Coral Gables, FL

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4 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Venetian Pool

A 1924 public pool carved from a coral-rock quarry — waterfalls, grottoes and Venetian bridges; on the National Register.

2701 De Soto Blvd, Coral Gables, FL

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5 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Coral Gables Merrick House

George Merrick's boyhood home — the 1899 family cottage grown into the coral-rock house where Coral Gables was dreamed up; tours on weekends.

907 Coral Way, Coral Gables, FL

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6 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Chug's Diner

Michelin Bib Gourmand Cuban diner from Ariete's Michael Beltran & Monika Dominguez; its short-rib croqueta inspired the Infatuation's unique-croquetas guide.

Look for Order: Pan con lechón, short-rib croqueta, Cuban diner breakfast

3444 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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7 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Daniel's Miami

The Daniel's steakhouse in the former Fiola space — on Time Out's and The Infatuation's Gables lists and New Times' 2025 Required Eating.

Look for Order: Florida-sourced steaks and seafood from the Daniel's team

1500 San Ignacio Ave, Coral Gables, FL

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8 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

El Carajo International Tapas & Wines

Miami's famous gas-station tapas bar — walk past the motor oil into a Spanish wine cellar.

Look for Order: Tapas and pulpo with any of ~1,500 bottles pulled off the shelf ($10 corkage)

Coconut Grove, FL (inside a gas station)

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villa from south gardens — Photo: Rob Pinion · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

9 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

James Deering's 1916 Italian Renaissance–style villa and formal gardens on Biscayne Bay — Miami's grandest historic estate.

3251 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL

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10 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

83 acres of palms, cycads and rare tropical plants — one of the country's great tropical botanical gardens.

10901 Old Cutler Rd, Coral Gables, FL

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11 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

The Barnacle Historic State Park

The 1891 home of Commodore Ralph Munroe — the oldest house in Miami still on its original site, on a waterfront lawn that hosts bluegrass and folk nights.

3485 Main Hwy, Miami, FL

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12 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Shingo

One Michelin star (2026) — Coral Gables omakase counter.

Look for Order: Edomae omakase

Coral Gables, FL

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13 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Ariete

One Michelin star (2026): chef Michael Beltran's Coconut Grove flagship, Miami-Cuban flavours in fine-dining form.

Look for Order: Cuban-inflected tasting dishes

3540 Main Hwy, Miami, FL

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14 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Los Félix

One Michelin star (2026): heirloom-corn Mexican cooking in Coconut Grove.

Look for Order: Heirloom-corn Mexican

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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15 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Luca Osteria

Giralda Plaza osteria that made the Gables a pasta destination.

Look for Order: Handmade pastas from chef Giorgio Rapicavoli

Giralda Plaza, Coral Gables, FL

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16 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Taurus Beer & Whiskey House

Coconut Grove's oldest bar, open since 1969 — a wood-panelled locals' institution.

Look for Order: Beer and whiskey at the Grove's oldest bar (since 1969)

3540 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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17 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Flanigan's Coconut Grove

Family-run South Florida seafood-and-sports-bar chain's Grove outpost — named by The Infatuation among 20 dishes that define Miami.

Look for Order: The fried fish platter (an Infatuation 'iconic Miami dish') and cheap drinks

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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18 Must see within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne · Peruvian & ceviche

Piononos

Busy Key Biscayne bakery — Infatuation's best pavlova in Miami.

Look for Order: The signature pionono walnut-meringue cake with dulce de leche and strawberries; pavlova

Key Biscayne, FL

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19 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Cape Florida Light

The 1825 brick lighthouse — the oldest standing structure in Miami-Dade; climb it on ranger-led tours.

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Historic Virginia Key Beach Park

Opened in 1945 as the 'colored only' beach of segregated Miami; now a historic park on Virginia Key.

4020 Virginia Beach Dr, Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Miracle Mile (Coral Gables)

Coral Gables' downtown boulevard of shops, cafés and galleries.

Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, FL

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22 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Lowe Art Museum

University of Miami's art museum, home of the Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque art.

1301 Stanford Dr, Coral Gables, FL

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Sunrise at Matheson — Photo: joiseyshowaa · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

23 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Matheson Hammock Park

County park whose man-made atoll pool is refreshed by Biscayne Bay's tides.

9610 Old Cutler Rd, Coral Gables, FL

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24 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

The Kampong

Plant explorer David Fairchild's nine-acre Coconut Grove estate, now a National Tropical Botanical Garden; tours by reservation.

4013 S Douglas Rd, Miami, FL

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25 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Coral Gables Congregational Church

The city's oldest public building (1923–24) — Richard Kiehnel's Spanish Colonial Revival church on land Merrick gave in his father's memory.

3010 DeSoto Blvd, Coral Gables, FL

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26 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Plymouth Congregational Church

1917 coral-rock mission church hand-built by Felix Rebom with a hatchet, trowel, plumb line and T-square; the congregation dates to 1897.

3429 Devon Rd (at Main Hwy), Coconut Grove, FL

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27 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Krüs Kitchen

Coconut Grove farm-to-table kitchen holding a MICHELIN Green Star for sustainability (and a Bib Gourmand in the 2022 inaugural guide).

Look for Order: Seasonal tasting plates built around Florida farms

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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28 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Gramps Getaway

Gramps' outdoor waterfront offshoot on Key Biscayne — a laid-back bayside hangout.

Look for Order: Frozen drinks and beers on the bay at the island's marina

Key Biscayne, FL

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29 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Beauty & The Butcher

Gables contemporary-American room on both outlets' best-of lists.

Look for Order: Steaks and shareable contemporary plates

Coral Gables, FL

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30 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

LoKal

Commodore Plaza burger-and-craft-beer patio that's been a Grove hangout for over a decade.

Look for Order: Grass-fed burgers and Florida craft beer on the patio

3190 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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31 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Sipsip

Rooftop Caribbean rum bar on both outlets' Grove lists.

Look for Order: Calypso rum cocktails on the Mayfair House rooftop

Mayfair House, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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32 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Monty's Raw Bar

Tiki-roofed bayfront raw bar on the Grove marina — live music and sunset happy hours.

Look for Order: Raw bar, fish dip and drinks with live music on the marina

2550 S Bayshore Dr, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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33 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

The Commodore

Library-styled cocktail bar inside the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove.

Look for Order: Classic cocktails in a library-like lounge

Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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34 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Shore To Door Fish Market

'A Coconut Grove backyard party disguised as a fish market' — the menu follows what local boats bring in.

Look for Order: Daily local catch, ceviche-topped tostones and live music in the yard

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

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35 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Loretta & The Butcher

Commodore Plaza butcher shop–café on Infatuation's 19 best in the Grove.

Look for Order: Butcher-counter sandwiches and smash burgers

3195 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove, FL

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36 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Flour & Weirdoughs

Key Biscayne bakery of delightfully odd, organic baked goods.

Look for Order: Chicharrón sourdough and Danish–almond-croissant mashups

Key Biscayne, FL

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37 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Bachour

Michelin Bib Gourmand: pastry chef Antonio Bachour's all-day bakery-café.

Look for Order: Pastry-chef plated desserts and croissants

2020 Salzedo St, Coral Gables, FL

38 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Zitz Sum

Michelin Bib Gourmand dim-sum-and-noodles spot from chef Pablo Zitzmann.

Look for Order: Dim sum

396 Alhambra Cir Ste 155, Coral Gables, FL

39 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Sereira

Michelin-recommended (2025) seafood restaurant in Coconut Grove.

Look for Order: Japanese-Brazilian seafood

Coconut Grove, Miami, FL

40 Worth the detour within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

Kojin 2.0

Michelin-recommended (2025): contemporary menu with Japanese influences.

Look for Order: Japanese-influenced contemporary tasting

Coral Gables, FL

41 Deep cut within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne

CocoWalk

Coconut Grove's renovated open-air shopping and dining centre.

3015 Grand Ave, Miami, FL

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42 Deep cut within Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne · Coffee & cafés

Tinta y Café

Michelin Bib Gourmand café.

Look for Order: Empanadas and café

1315 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL

Closed — kept for the record 43

Miami Seaquarium — CLOSED

Virginia Key's marine park (1955) permanently closed on 12 October 2025 after 70 years; a replacement aquarium is planned for ~2030.

4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL

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South Dade 33 places · area 8 of 9

Kendall, Homestead, Redland & Florida City

1 Must see within South Dade

Coral Castle

Ed Leedskalnin's single-handed carved-coral monument (1923–51), still unexplained.

28655 S Dixie Hwy, Homestead, FL

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Swan Lake in the gardens — Photo: Rook48 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

2 Must see within South Dade

Pinecrest Gardens

The original 1936 Parrot Jungle site, now a municipal botanical garden — strangler figs, cypress slough, koi, Swan Lake and the old jungle trails.

11000 Red Rd, Pinecrest, FL

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3 Must see within South Dade

Robert Is Here

The Redland's famous fruit stand, run by Robert Moehling since he was six (1960): lychees, sapotes, carambolas — and milkshakes in every flavour — on the road to the Everglades.

Look for Order: Fresh tropical-fruit milkshake (mamey, key lime, guanabana)

19200 SW 344th St, Homestead, FL

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4 Must see within South Dade

Babe's Meat & Counter

Palmetto Bay butcher counter that grew from the Pinecrest farmers' market — expanded to 40 seats in 2026.

Look for Order: The house-ground cheeseburger (New Times Best Burger 2025) and in-house bacon sandwiches

9216 SW 156th St, Palmetto Bay, FL

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5 Must see within South Dade

Zoo Miami

The only subtropical zoo in the continental US — 2,000+ animals in open, moated habitats.

12400 SW 152nd St, Miami, FL

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6 Must see within South Dade

Deering Estate

Charles Deering's 1920s bayfront estate with what's believed to be the largest old-growth coastal tropical hardwood hammock in the continental US — nature walks, boat trips, night hikes.

16701 SW 72nd Ave, Palmetto Bay, FL

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Miami FL Gold Coast RR Museum ACL 1804-01 — Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

7 Must see within South Dade

50-acre rail museum across from Zoo Miami — home of the Ferdinand Magellan, the armoured presidential Pullman used by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan; train rides and Florida's largest public model railroad.

SW 152nd St (across from Zoo Miami), Miami, FL

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8 Must see within South Dade

Cauley Square Historic Village

10-acre turn-of-the-century railroad workers' village in Goulds — tropical gardens, antique shops, galleries, tearoom and an aviary.

Old Dixie Hwy, Goulds (Miami), FL

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9 Must see within South Dade

Apocalypse BBQ

Some of Miami's best barbecue, smoked in a rundown caddie shack on Kendall's Killian Greens golf course — New Times readers' Best Barbecue 2025.

Look for Order: Brisket and burnt ends from a golf-course shack

8695 SW 124th Ave, Miami, FL

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10 Must see within South Dade

Knaus Berry Farm

Redland roadside bakery since 1956 whose seasonal cinnamon-roll lines are Miami-Dade legend — one of The Infatuation's 20 iconic Miami dishes. Sold in 2025; reopened under new owners at a new Redland farm (16790 SW 177th Ave) on 22 Dec 2025 — seasonal, roughly Dec–May.

Look for Order: Sticky cinnamon rolls and strawberry milkshakes (seasonal, cash only, closed Sundays)

16790 SW 177th Ave, Miami (Redland), FL

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11 Must see within South Dade

Shiver's BBQ

Homestead barbecue institution since the 1950s — New Times' Best Barbecue in 2003, 2013 and again in 2025.

Look for Order: Hickory-smoked ribs, pork and chicken (up to 12 hours in the pit)

28001 S Dixie Hwy, Homestead, FL

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12 Must see within South Dade

Fox's Lounge

Revival of Fox's Sherron Inn — Miami's dark bar for seven decades — by the Lost Boy team.

Look for Order: Strong martinis and a classic burger in a cave-dark lounge

6030 S Dixie Hwy, South Miami, FL

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13 Must see within South Dade

Taqueria Morelia

Homestead taquería on The Infatuation's 13 best tacos in Miami, its 20 best in Homestead, and Time Out's 20 best tacos.

Look for Order: Tacos from a Homestead taquería

Homestead, FL

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14 Must see within South Dade

Black Point Ocean Grill

Open-air marina grill at Black Point — boats tie up beside the tables and manatees cruise the basin.

Look for Order: Conch fritters and fish dip on the dock — bring your own catch and they'll cook it

Black Point Marina, Cutler Bay, FL

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15 Must see within South Dade · Markets & food halls

Redland Market Village

Homestead's weekend bazaar run largely by and for the Mexican community of the farm belt.

Look for Order: Weekend tacos, tamales and elotes amid Mexican produce, chilies and live music

24420 S Dixie Hwy, Homestead, FL

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16 Worth the detour within South Dade

Larry and Penny Thompson Park

270 acres of pineland next to Zoo Miami — the county's biggest campground, a swimming lake with a seasonal beach and water slide, bridle trails.

12451 SW 184th St, Miami, FL

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17 Worth the detour within South Dade

Fruit & Spice Park

Miami-Dade's 37-acre Redland botanical park of 500+ edible tropical fruits, spices and nuts — taste what's in season.

24801 SW 187th Ave, Homestead, FL

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18 Worth the detour within South Dade

Monkey Jungle

Since 1933: the humans walk in cages while the primates roam free.

14805 SW 216th St, Miami, FL

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19 Worth the detour within South Dade

Everglades Alligator Farm

Florida's oldest alligator farm (1940s) at the Everglades' edge — airboat rides and gator shows.

40351 SW 192nd Ave, Homestead, FL

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20 Worth the detour within South Dade

Wings Over Miami Air Museum

'Living' aviation museum at the Kendall-Tamiami airport — warbirds that still fly, including a B-26 from the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Miami Executive Airport (Kendall-Tamiami), Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within South Dade

Black Point Park & Marina

County marina on Biscayne Bay — gateway to Biscayne NP's keys, with the Biscayne Trail loop and a 1.5-mile jetty walk.

24775 SW 87th Ave, Cutler Bay, FL

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22 Worth the detour within South Dade

Schnebly Redland's Winery

Wine made from subtropical fruit — lychee, carambola, avocado — on tropical grounds with weekend live music.

Look for Order: Lychee and carambola fruit wines

30205 SW 217th Ave, Homestead, FL

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23 Worth the detour within South Dade

Smoke & Dough

West Kendall pit fusing Miami's Latin staples with American barbecue — on the Infatuation's Kendall guide and New Times' ten best barbecue.

Look for Order: Latin-Miami barbecue (pastelito-inspired, croqueta mac)

West Kendall, Miami, FL

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24 Worth the detour within South Dade

Milly's Empanada Factory

West Kendall's late-night Venezuelan counter — cheap crisp empanadas and arepas; doubles as a zine-fest and music hangout.

Look for Order: $2.25 Venezuelan empanadas, arepas and cachapas — open till 3am on weekends

13911 SW 66th St, Miami (West Kendall), FL

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25 Worth the detour within South Dade

Hole in the Wall

All-American dive bar on US-1 since 1989.

Look for Order: Char-grilled wings and cheap beer

14421 S Dixie Hwy, Miami (East Kendall/Pinecrest), FL

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26 Worth the detour within South Dade

Everglades Gator Grill

Counter-service gator kitchen with picnic tables 6 miles from the Everglades NP entrance.

Look for Order: Grilled gator sandwich, Cajun gator tail, gator tacos and kabobs

36650 SW 192nd Ave, Homestead, FL

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27 Worth the detour within South Dade

Royal Palm Grill

Nostalgic Krome Avenue diner on Fodor's Everglades-gateway list.

Look for Order: All-day breakfast and 99-cent sliders

806 N Krome Ave, Homestead, FL

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28 Worth the detour within South Dade

Jamrock Cuisine

Chef Maurice Chang cooks his Chinese father's and Jamaican mother's food — New Times' Best Jamaican Restaurant 2018.

Look for Order: Beef patties and Chinese-Jamaican favourites

12618 Kendall Dr, Miami, FL

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29 Worth the detour within South Dade

Strange Beast

West Kendall brewpub-pizzeria with a real neighbourhood feel and one of Miami's best late-night karaoke nights.

Look for Order: House beer with seasonal pizzas like the lomo-saltado 'Incan'; Thursday karaoke

West Kendall, Miami, FL

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30 Worth the detour within South Dade

Hungry Bear Sub Shop

Strip-mall sub shop since 1979 making sandwiches 'big enough to satisfy an actual hungry bear'.

Look for Order: Overstuffed honey-mustard chicken sub

Kendall, FL (across from Miami Dade College Kendall campus)

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31 Worth the detour within South Dade

Caribbean Delite

One of Miami's best Trini rotis — also an influencers' hidden-gem pick in New Times.

Look for Order: Trinidadian-style roti

Palmetto Bay, FL

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32 Worth the detour within South Dade

Ghee Indian Kitchen

Michelin Bib Gourmand: chef Niven Patel's Indian kitchen cooking with produce from his own Homestead farm.

Look for Order: Modern Indian (Niven Patel)

8965 SW 72nd Pl, Miami, FL

33 Deep cut within South Dade

Homestead Bayfront Park

Bayside county park and marina next to Biscayne NP's visitor centre, on land donated in 1938.

9698 SW 328th St, Homestead, FL

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Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail 25 places · area 9 of 9

1 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Biscayne National Park — Dante Fascell Visitor Center

The mainland gateway to a park that is 95% water: museum, art gallery, ranger talks, and boat trips out to the keys, reefs and Stiltsville.

9700 SW 328th St, Homestead, FL

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2 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Boca Chita Key

The park's most-visited island, greeted by the ornamental lighthouse Mark Honeywell built in the 1930s.

Boca Chita Key, Biscayne National Park, FL

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3 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Big Cypress Oasis Visitor Center

Big Cypress National Preserve's main visitor centre on the Tamiami Trail — alligators line the canal out front.

52105 Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, FL

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historic store building exterior — Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

4 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Ted Smallwood Store

1917 stilt-built trading post and post office at the end of the road on Chokoloskee — now a museum of frontier and Seminole trade (NRHP).

360 Mamie St, Chokoloskee, FL

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trail boardwalk through marsh — Photo: Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

5 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Anhinga Trail (Royal Palm)

The park's most popular trail: a paved path and boardwalk over sawgrass marsh and Taylor Slough where alligators, turtles and anhingas gather — best in the dry-season winter.

Your guide’s note Walk it early morning Dec–Apr; watch for vultures on car rubber.

Royal Palm Visitor Center, State Road 9336, Everglades National Park, FL

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observation tower — Photo: Milan Boers · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

6 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Shark Valley

Everglades NP's northern entrance: a 15-mile paved loop through the river of grass to a 360° observation tower — by tram tour, bicycle or on foot.

36000 SW 8th St, Miami, FL (Tamiami Trail)

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visitor center building — Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

7 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Flamingo Visitor Center & Marina

The park's far southern end on Florida Bay: boat tours and rentals into the backcountry, crocodiles and manatees at the marina.

Flamingo, Everglades National Park, FL

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8 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Coopertown Restaurant

Tamiami Trail swamp-food stand since the early 1960s, beside the Original Air Boat Tour (1945) — frog legs and gator tail straight from the Glades.

Look for Order: Frog legs and gator tail, cornmeal-fried

22700 SW 8th St, Miami, FL

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9 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

City Seafood

Everglades City waterfront fish house famous for stone crab claws landed by its own boats.

Look for Order: Stone crab claws off its own boats, gator bites

702 Begonia St, Everglades City, FL

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10 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Havana Café of the Everglades

Bougainvillea-ringed Cuban café at the end of the road on Chokoloskee Island — seasonal and much-loved.

Look for Order: Medianoche, Cuban coffee and just-landed stone crab (open mid-Oct to mid-Apr)

191 Smallwood Dr, Chokoloskee, FL

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missile site buildings, 2013 — Photo: Pedro Sostre from Miami, FL, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

11 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Nike Missile Site HM-69

Cold War Nike Hercules 'Alpha Battery' frozen since 1979 — barracks, missile barns and a real missile; ranger-led tours in season.

Everglades National Park (Long Pine Key area), FL

12 Must see within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Gulf Coast Visitor Center (Everglades City)

The park's western gateway — boat tours into the Ten Thousand Islands mangrove maze and backcountry paddling routes.

815 Oyster Bar Ln, Everglades City, FL

Jimmy Ellenburg house — Photo: Justdweezil · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

13 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Stiltsville

The six surviving stilt houses standing in the shallows of Biscayne Bay since the 1930s — seen on guided boat tours.

Biscayne Bay off Cape Florida, Biscayne National Park, FL

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Smallest post office, Ochopee, Florida - panoramio — Photo: olekinderhook · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

14 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Ochopee Post Office

The smallest post office in the United States — a 61-sq-ft former irrigation-pipe shed pressed into service after a 1953 fire.

Look for Mail a postcard from it.

38000 Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, FL

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15 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Pa-hay-okee Overlook

A short boardwalk to a raised platform with sweeping views over the sawgrass 'river of grass'.

Main Park Road, Everglades National Park, FL

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16 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Kirby Storter Roadside Park Boardwalk

A boardwalk into a cypress strand that ends at a gator hole where anhingas dry their wings.

48900 Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, FL 34141

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17 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Museum of the Everglades

Collier County museum in the 1927 Everglades Laundry — Calusa, Seminole, pioneer and Barron Collier history of the southwest Glades.

105 W Broadway, Everglades City, FL

18 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Joanie's Blue Crab Cafe

Tin-roofed Tamiami Trail café in Ochopee serving catfish, frog legs, gator and blue crab.

Look for Order: Frog legs, soft-shell crab, gator

39395 Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, FL

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19 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Triad Seafood Market & Café

Working stone-crab house on the Barron River that serves its own catch at picnic tables.

Look for Order: Stone crab claws straight off the boats

401 W School Dr, Everglades City, FL

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20 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

The Pit Bar-B-Q

Old-fashioned roadside smokehouse on the Tamiami Trail since 1965 — the last stop before Shark Valley.

Look for Order: Barbecued chicken and ribs with tangy basting sauce, corn bread and the double-decker pork sandwich

16400 SW 8th St (Tamiami Trail near Krome Ave), Miami, FL

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21 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Gumbo Limbo Trail

Shaded, jungle-like paved loop through a hardwood hammock beside the Anhinga Trail at Royal Palm.

Royal Palm, Everglades National Park, FL

22 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Elliott Key

Largest island of Biscayne NP — a former pioneer pineapple-farming and sponging community; camping, a loop trail, bayside picnics (check NPS for current access).

Biscayne National Park (boat access), FL

23 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

H.P. Williams Roadside Park

200-m boardwalk over a cypress waterway packed with gators, turtles and wading birds — the gateway to Turner River Road.

Tamiami Trail & Turner River Rd, Ochopee, FL

24 Worth the detour within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Turner River Road Scenic Drive

17-mile gravel loop through wet prairies and cypress — one of South Florida's best drive-up gator and wading-bird routes.

Turner River Rd (CR 839), Big Cypress National Preserve, FL

25 Deep cut within Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail

Adams Key

Day-use island on swift Caesar Creek with a short hardwood-hammock trail, picnic pavilion and dawn-to-dusk access.

Biscayne National Park (boat access), FL

How we choose

Named sources recommend every place; review sites never do. Each is pinned to its door and status-checked. Closed places stay, marked closed.

Must see: The places to plan a visit around, graded within each area.
Worth the detour: Strong picks, worth going out of your way for.
Deep cut: For the curious: smaller, odder, more local.

Within each area: by tier, then by named sources, never by popularity. We don’t add ratings, prices or opening hours of our own.

Follow changes — an RSS feed of every closure and status check in this guide.

About this guide

327 places in 9 areas, each recommended by at least two independent sources (47 in all) or one institution such as Michelin.

Every place was checked open and pinned between 3 Oct and 16 Oct 2026. Closed places stay, marked closed.

Photos for 70 places; the rest show a designed cover.

How we choose → Insights →

126 sights and 201 places to eat from Fort Lauderdale down through Miami-Dade to Everglades and Biscayne national parks, each traceable to the source that named it. The food runs on what South Florida does best: the Cuban sandwich and a ventanita cafecito, croquetas and pastelitos, stone crab, Haitian griot, Peruvian ceviche, arepas, key lime pie, Redland tropical fruit, and gator and frog legs at the edge of the Glades.

Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood & Broward 47 places · area 1 of 9

North Miami, Aventura, Sunny Isles & Miami Gardens 29 places · area 2 of 9

Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti & MiMo 40 places · area 3 of 9

Downtown, Brickell & Overtown 36 places · area 4 of 9

Little Havana, Hialeah, Doral & West Dade 34 places · area 5 of 9

Miami Beach, Surfside & Bal Harbour 40 places · area 6 of 9

Coral Gables, Coconut Grove & Key Biscayne 43 places · area 7 of 9

South Dade 33 places · area 8 of 9

Everglades NP, Biscayne NP & the Tamiami Trail 25 places · area 9 of 9

How we choose

Keep Miami offline

How this guide was made

How the cuisine filters were policed

Web-searched, merit-measured and fact-checked