The 21 Best Restaurants in Miami

A highly opinionated list of the best restaurants in Miami picked by our expert team

Mika Coral Gables’ Spaghetti with blue crab, caviar and lemon butter. Credit: Evan Sung

We dine out for a living, which means we've been to a lot of restaurants — good ones, bad ones, and plenty that fall somewhere in between. After all that dining, these 21 spots are the ones we keep going back to, the places we actually recommend when friends ask where to eat, and the restaurants that remind us why Miami's food scene is worth paying attention to.

Each of us picked seven places we genuinely love, covering everything from hole-in-the-wall spots to special occasion splurges, neighborhood staples to tried-and-true favorites that have proven themselves over time.

We'll update this list a few times a year because Miami's restaurant scene never stops moving and changing, and neither do we.