The Leftovers Awards 2025: The Winners

Miami ate. Miami drank. Here’s what won.

Miami had a year. Openings that over delivered. Closings that hurt. Plenty of meals we will not bring up again. For the first Leftovers Awards, we handed it to subscribers. You voted. We debated. Reader votes counted for 70% of the final results, and our editors handled the remaining 30%.

The winners cover seven different categories in Miami dining, from the restaurant worth crossing the causeway for to the neighborhood spot you keep returning to. Here are the 2025 Leftovers Awards winners.