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Miami's Best Greek Restaurant Is On...Ocean Drive?

It's just like a beach club on the Med, but in a good way

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Matt Meltzer
Jul 14, 2025
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Photo Courtesy Santorini by Georgios/Facebook

Miami’s Best Greek Restaurant Feels Like An Island Beach Club – In The Good Way

Plate breaking is getting a little played out. Not only because our landfills are becoming dangerously overrun with broken Greek restaurant plates. But also because it feels a little forced when a teenager from Weston who’s clearly never been north of Athens, Georgia stands up on a stool, clumsily drops a plate on the ground, and mumbles “Opa?”

The only place it’s still cool is Santorini by Georgios, the family-run Greek spot tucked behind the Bentley Hotel in South Beach. Its mix of warm, Greek Island hospitality and oversized portions of fantastic food make it the kind of place where you can’t help but be happy. And maybe break a few plates in the process.

Why is Santorini the best Greek restaurant in Miami? You’d be forgiven for not believing anything on Ocean Drive is “best” at anything, except maybe diabetic comas. But Georgios and his family have effectively …

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