This year, there is a renewed focus on sustainability, highlighting restaurants that prioritize local sourcing, food waste reduction, composting and reduced single-use plastics. Diners can also support Camillus House, which provides housing and supportive services to the vulnerable and homeless in South Florida, with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau matching the first $25,000 donated by Miami Spice patrons.
Amara at Paraiso
Coastal vibes meet Latin American dining during Amara at Paraiso’s Miami Spice lunch Monday-Saturday. The lunch menu, available Monday through Saturday, features dishes such as shrimp toast, mango salad and house-made rigatoni with pistachio pesto and burrata. The dinner menu ($65) includes options like tuna tartare, a braised beef shank empanada, rib-eye steak and Brazilian-style moqueca. Both menus conclude with a choice of mango mousse or chocolate terrine.
Tâm Tâm
For Vietnamese cuisine in a retro setting, Michelin Bib Gourmand–recognized Tâm Tâm in downtown Miami is serving a $50 dinner menu available Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday. Every diner who orders the Miami Spice menu receives a personal order of sticky wings, plus a choice of appetizer. Entrees include a goat curry with rice noodles, a betel leaf lamb wrap and grilled branzino in ginger nuoc cham.
Casa MX
We reviewed Casa MX earlier this year, and the concept of a family-driven experience continues with its $50 dinner menu from Tuesday through Sunday. Along with guacamole, diners pick two appetizers and two entrees from classics like duck flauta, ensaladas and tacos stuffed with pork, fish, steak or mushrooms. Traditional desserts such as cajeta flan and tres leches round out the experience.
Bouchon Bistro
In Coral Gables, chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bistro offers classic French fare for lunch Friday through Sunday and a $65 dinner Wednesday through Sunday. The Miami Spice menus showcase many of the restaurant’s best-known dishes, including onion soup, escargots, Croque Madame, trout amandine and steak frites, alongside traditional desserts such as crème caramel and chocolate bouchons.
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Cote Miami
Michelin-starred Cote Miami puts a polished spin on Korean barbecue, pairing tableside grilling with the premium cuts and service of an American steakhouse. Its lunch menu features dishes like steak tartare, bibimbap and fried chicken. For an additional $29, the Butcher’s Lunch adds tableside-grilled beef, USDA Prime hanger steak and rib-eye dry-aged for more than 45 days. Dessert is a Korean soft serve topped with soy and caramel sauce.
Daniel’s Miami
Daniel’s Miami takes the traditional steakhouse in a distinctly South Florida direction, pairing premium cuts with Florida seafood, house-made pasta and elevated comfort food. Its Miami Spice menus include a $40 brunch on Sundays and lunch on Tuesdays through Friday, as well as a $65 dinner Friday through Saturday.
Zucca
As we wrote in “Viva Italia!,” Zucca is known for authentic Italian cooking, and its Miami Spice menus feature many of the dishes that have made it a Coral Gables favorite, including pastas, risotto, branzino and house-made tiramisu. Brunch is available on Sunday, lunch Mondays and Saturdays and dinner nightly.
Uchiko
Uchiko takes a more understated approach, allowing carefully prepared Japanese dishes to speak for themselves. Diners can build a $65 dinner Sundays through Thursdays around nigiri, temaki, seasonal vegetables and rice dishes, ending with one of the restaurant’s rotating desserts. There’s also an intimate $95 omakase experience at the sushi bar with a menu curated by Uchiko’s head sushi chef.
Stubborn Seed
Chef Jeremy Ford’s Michelin-starred restaurant offers Miami Spice diners a chance to sample the ingredient-driven cooking that has made Stubborn Seed one of South Beach’s most acclaimed restaurants. The $65 dinner menu, available Sunday through Thursday, includes selections like foie gras torchon, koji-marinated lamb, truffle chicken and charred branzino. For dessert, end with sorbet or citrus pavlova.
Sérêvène
Sérêvène, which we profiled in “East Meets West,” blends French technique with Japanese flavors. That approach carries through its $65 Miami Spice dinner menu, available Thursdays through Sunday, with dishes ranging from Ora King salmon and lobster uni Alfredo with offerings such as lamb shank, Japanese green curry and wagyu boeuf au poivre. Dessert is a choice between a chocolate soufflé, Foie Gras Crème Brûlée or an “Adults Only” alcoholic popsicle.
Naked Tomato
Naked Tomato reflects the philosophy chef Eyan Shani shared in our recent profile: Simple ingredients tell the greatest stories. Its $50 Miami Spice dinner menu, available Sunday through Thursday, lets those ingredients take center stage in dishes ranging from hummus and green beans in lemon-garlic vinaigrette to flame-cooked skewers, branzino and a Tel Aviv-inspired dessert.
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Miami’s only two-star Michelin restaurant, L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon is participating in Miami Spice for the first time this year with a 3-course lunch ($95) Friday and Saturday, or a 4-course dinner ($155) Tuesday through Sunday. Made with fresh summer ingredients, dishes run from Iberico Pork Presa with black garlic to La Forêt Noire, a rich black forest chocolate crémeux, finished with cherries and Kirsch Chantilly.
For more information about Miami Spice and its participating restaurants, visit miamispice.com.