Miami’s Best New Restaurants Of 2023
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Miami’s Best New Restaurants Of 2023
If you're looking for a neat and tidy theme to sum up the year’s new restaurants, there isn't one—and that's a good thing. Our favorite new spots of 2023 bucked generic dining trends and instead created some of the most incomparable restaurants Miami's seen in years. That's why—if you put us in a time machine and set it back exactly one year—we could convince literally no one that Miami will one day have a great restaurant called "Walrus Rodeo."
Even the restaurants that technically weren't new at all somehow took us by surprise. A couple we thought were gone for good came back into our lives like a telenovela love interest who faked their own death. And we are so thankful for all the twists and turns, because even though we never saw any of these places coming, now we can't imagine Miami without them. Looking for the best places to eat in Miami, full stop? Check out our guide to the 25 highest-rated in town.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Walking into the karaoke bathroom just as the chorus to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" came on.
A Perfect Order For Two Small Plate Enthusiasts
Lotus root salad, scallop pomelo goi, steak tartare, ribs, wings, two pig-ified cocktails with a collective eight teats.
The Best Time To Go
Saturday night, looking cute, around 9pm, after having exactly one shell-tini at Over Under.
Collective team visits
16
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Walking into the karaoke bathroom just as the chorus to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" came on.
A Perfect Order For Two Small Plate Enthusiasts
Lotus root salad, scallop pomelo goi, steak tartare, ribs, wings, two pig-ified cocktails with a collective eight teats.
The Best Time To Go
Saturday night, looking cute, around 9pm, after having exactly one shell-tini at Over Under.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Locking eyes with the whole roasted dorade mid-bite.
A (Slightly Aggressive) Perfect Order For Four
Every tiradito (there are about five and they change all the time), tortitas, dorade, chicken milanesa, oxtail saltado, picarones.
The Best Time To Go
After rush hour, when Midtown has calmed and you’re emotionally prepared to get lost in the eyes of Miami’s most delicious fish.
Collective team visits
15
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Locking eyes with the whole roasted dorade mid-bite.
A (Slightly Aggressive) Perfect Order For Four
Every tiradito (there are about five and they change all the time), tortitas, dorade, chicken milanesa, oxtail saltado, picarones.
The Best Time To Go
After rush hour, when Midtown has calmed and you’re emotionally prepared to get lost in the eyes of Miami’s most delicious fish.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
When the carrot tartare turned out to be better than 99.9% of the meat versions we’ve had.
A Perfect Order For Three
Carrot tartare, roasted grapes, lasagna (it’s off-menu), the rodeo za, churros, and Pedro Ximénez in little glass cowboy boots.
The Best Time To Go
Thursday at 9pm for a seamless transition to the weekend, or 5:30pm for Happy Hour if you’ve been spending too much money lately.
Collective team visits
9
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
When the carrot tartare turned out to be better than 99.9% of the meat versions we’ve had.
A Perfect Order For Three
Carrot tartare, roasted grapes, lasagna (it’s off-menu), the rodeo za, churros, and Pedro Ximénez in little glass cowboy boots.
The Best Time To Go
Thursday at 9pm for a seamless transition to the weekend, or 5:30pm for Happy Hour if you’ve been spending too much money lately.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
That very first bite of cachito, when the steam from within hit our face and we smelled like ham for the next hour.
A Perfect Order For One
The broccoli and cheese sandwich, one kouign-amann, and a black coffee.
The Best Time To Go
Wednesday, at 8am, before the remote workers of MiMo come here to eat a danish and answer emails.
Collective team visits
We should pay rent at this point
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
That very first bite of cachito, when the steam from within hit our face and we smelled like ham for the next hour.
A Perfect Order For One
The broccoli and cheese sandwich, one kouign-amann, and a black coffee.
The Best Time To Go
Wednesday, at 8am, before the remote workers of MiMo come here to eat a danish and answer emails.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Chuckling in our car at the slogan painted on the facade that says, "It's where the old Schnitzel Haus was.”
A Perfect Order For Four
Pretzel, currywurst, the brat plat, spätzle, chicken schnitzel, a round of Underbergs for dessert.
The Best Time To Go
Friday, right after work, when you want a little taste of the weekend, but not too much.
Collective team visits
9
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Chuckling in our car at the slogan painted on the facade that says, "It's where the old Schnitzel Haus was.”
A Perfect Order For Four
Pretzel, currywurst, the brat plat, spätzle, chicken schnitzel, a round of Underbergs for dessert.
The Best Time To Go
Friday, right after work, when you want a little taste of the weekend, but not too much.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Needing to pull over and put our takeout brie and fig pizza in the back seat because we couldn’t stop eating it.
A Perfect Nap-Inducing Lunch Order For Two
Chicken parm sando (only available for lunch), brie and fig pizza with added bacon (now excommunicated from our passenger seat).
The Best Time To Go
Lunch, because sandwiches. Or any time you see Vice City post that the big mac pizza is on the menu tonight.
Collective team visits
4 (6 if you count their old pop-up)
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Needing to pull over and put our takeout brie and fig pizza in the back seat because we couldn’t stop eating it.
A Perfect Nap-Inducing Lunch Order For Two
Chicken parm sando (only available for lunch), brie and fig pizza with added bacon (now excommunicated from our passenger seat).
The Best Time To Go
Lunch, because sandwiches. Or any time you see Vice City post that the big mac pizza is on the menu tonight.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Listening to a server give us his taste notes on a steak from the pre-shift meeting—we weren’t even his table.
A Perfect Order For Four
Focaccia, duck (it’s sometimes guanciale) prosciutto, hamachi, foie gras tart, gnudi, jerk carrots, dry-aged steak.
The Best Time To Go
Friday at 8pm, when your chances of spotting a tableside flaming steak are higher.
Collective Team Visits
7
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Listening to a server give us his taste notes on a steak from the pre-shift meeting—we weren’t even his table.
A Perfect Order For Four
Focaccia, duck (it’s sometimes guanciale) prosciutto, hamachi, foie gras tart, gnudi, jerk carrots, dry-aged steak.
The Best Time To Go
Friday at 8pm, when your chances of spotting a tableside flaming steak are higher.
photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Biting a tsukune off its wooden skewer while watching the owners hug long-lost regulars who kept walking through the door.
A Perfect Order For Four (If You’re Cool Sharing Everything)
Crispy pork onion salad, oyster fry, two orders of tsukune, salmon kama miso, okonomiyaki, angel hair uni ikura.
The Best Time To Go
Any day of the week when the thought of cooking feels akin to climbing Mount Everest barefoot.
Collective team visits
4
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
Biting a tsukune off its wooden skewer while watching the owners hug long-lost regulars who kept walking through the door.
A Perfect Order For Four (If You’re Cool Sharing Everything)
Crispy pork onion salad, oyster fry, two orders of tsukune, salmon kama miso, okonomiyaki, angel hair uni ikura.
The Best Time To Go
Any day of the week when the thought of cooking feels akin to climbing Mount Everest barefoot.
photo credit: Erba
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
When they lit the butter candle, when it melted, when we sopped it up with rosemary focaccia—the entire butter candle experience.
A Perfect Order For four
Mandatory butter candle, tomato tonnato, wahoo crudo, foie gras, lumache, agnolotti, porchetta chop, pistachio gelato.
The Best Time To Go
Saturday night, when it’s packed but not cramped—and the parking garage isn’t full of grocery shoppers and speeding UM kids.
Collective team visits
5
The Moment We Knew We Loved It
When they lit the butter candle, when it melted, when we sopped it up with rosemary focaccia—the entire butter candle experience.
A Perfect Order For four
Mandatory butter candle, tomato tonnato, wahoo crudo, foie gras, lumache, agnolotti, porchetta chop, pistachio gelato.
The Best Time To Go
Saturday night, when it’s packed but not cramped—and the parking garage isn’t full of grocery shoppers and speeding UM kids.