Coconut Grove, Miami Opened Sept. 19
Coastal Italian, wood-fire grill · $$$$
Thomas Angelo and culinary director Daniel Ganem (Gioia Hospitality, the team behind Daniel’s)
A waterfront Italian dining room on Grove Isle, with handmade pasta, crudo and a salt-crusted branzino made for sharing with the table and the bay. The steak comes by the pound, so bring friends or an appetite.
4 Grove Isle Drive
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Wynwood, Miami Opened Sept. 11
Contemporary American
Chef Coton Stine
Coton Stine’s shared-plates restaurant opened in Wynwood before its Delray Beach sibling. Think miso Ora King salmon, gochujang shrimp and braised short rib, with a 5 p.m. happy hour for people who like to eat early.
310 N.W. 24th St.
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Downtown, Miami Opened Sept. 3
Saigon-style phở · $$
Chef Tam Pham and sommelier Harrison Ramhofer, from the team behind Tâm Tâm
The Tâm Tâm crew’s quieter sibling: a Saigon noodle shop with a spice-forward southern phở, bánh xèo and a whole fried fish to wrap in lettuce. Most tables are kept for walk-ins, so “no availability” online is more of a dare than a no.
270 E. Flagler St.
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Wynwood, Miami Opened Sept. 1
Southern European
Liz Mattos and Eduardo Antunes, with chefs Junior Santos and Caio Ottoboni
A Wynwood room built for long dinners, cooking its way across Italy, Spain and the south of France. Order the tuna au poivre with thin fries and the gnocco fritto piled with Florida blue crab.
137 N.W. 26th St.
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Little River, Miami Opened Aug. 11
Mexican taquería and tortilla factory · $
Chef Steve Santana
After eight years on Ocean Terrace, Steve Santana moved his taquería across the bridge into the building where he already makes the tortillas. It’s counter service, with blue corn tortillas warm off the machine and masa by the pound if you want to try it at home.
8246 N.E. Second Ave.
Upper Buena Vista, Miami Opened in August
Italian osteria and wine bar · $$$
Andrea Fraquelli and chef Giulio Rossi (Fraquelli Hospitality, the team behind Cotoletta)
The Cotoletta people have opened a dark-pink osteria with a handwritten menu of fresh pasta, lasagna and a proper cotoletta alla milanese. You book by calling a phone number, which their Instagram calls “reservations like it’s 1999.”
5010 N.E. Second Ave.
Coconut Grove, Miami Opened July 22
Greek
Chef Emmanouil “Manoli” Aslanoglou
Emmanouil Aslanoglou, who has cooked at Arzak and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, put his own name on this Grove taverna. Get the makarounes, a pasta from his childhood that he makes with yogurt instead of water, and save room for the dessert trolley.
3540 Main Hwy.
Coral Way, Miami Opened July 10
Omakase sushi · $$$$
Chefs Glen Kotlar and Yoni Matz
Ten seats at a hinoki counter under a wooden “wave” built by KTX ArchiLAB, the Japanese firm’s first project in the U.S. Glen Kotlar serves 17 Edomae courses, and the restaurant’s Instagram devotes whole posts to its rice and its kohada, which is a very good sign.
2296 Coral Way
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Little River, Miami Opens in October
Modern Filipino
From the team behind Sili at 1-800-Lucky
A modern Filipino restaurant from the people behind Sili at 1-800-Lucky, on the stretch of Northeast Second Avenue that keeps getting more interesting. Miami has been short on Filipino cooking for a while.
8222 N.E. Second Ave.
North Miami, Miami Opened Feb. 13, 2025
Kosher Israeli and Middle Eastern · $$$$
Chef Raz Shabtai
Chef Raz Shabtai named this North Miami counter after his grandmother, and she’d likely approve of the beets, served in a pool of ajo blanco with a scoop of beet sorbet. In 2026 it became the first kosher restaurant anywhere to earn a Michelin star.
2188 NE 123rd St.
N.A. Photography, courtesy of Mutra
North Miami Beach, Miami Opened in 2023
Peruvian Nikkei seafood
Chef Anthony Verastegui
Chef Anthony Verastegui runs a 12-seat counter in a North Miami Beach strip mall, making Peruvian ceviches and tiraditos with Japanese technique. Michelin gave it a Bib Gourmand, its nod to great cooking at fair prices, and the tuna tataki with rocoto pepper is a good place to see why.
17034 W. Dixie Hwy.
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