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Awards & recognition2026 Guide

Michelin Star Restaurants in Miami

Every starred room, every Bib Gourmand, and what the badge on the door is actually worth.

165 venues21 neighborhoods🏆 15 Michelin stars

Miami collects awards the way it collects condo towers. Some tell you something real about dinner; some tell you a hotel spent money on the dining room. This is every Michelin star and Bib Gourmand in the city, plus the James Beard, 50 Best and Wine Spectator names worth knowing. 165 places, 21 neighborhoods, 15 Michelin stars between them.

What counts as an award here

Three tiers, and they are not interchangeable. A Michelin star and a readers' choice poll both say something, but not the same thing. Numbers are venues, not awards — a room holding three Michelin honours counts once.

Global standards

Judged by inspectors or an international industry panel. The hardest to get and the slowest to lose.

  • Michelin Guide60
  • Wine Spectator60
  • James Beard Foundation16
  • World's 50 Best13
  • Forbes Travel Guide7
  • Tales of the Cocktail4
  • Pinnacle Guide2
  • Gambero Rosso2
  • AAA1
  • Pizza Napoletana Verace1
  • Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani1

National press & lists

American editorial and annual rankings. Real recognition, decided by writers rather than inspectors.

  • Food & Wine3
  • UNESCO Prix Versailles2
  • The World's 100 Best2
  • Slow Food2
  • Surfrider Foundation2
  • Condé Nast Traveler1
  • Bon Appétit1
  • Restaurant Business1
  • 50 Top Pizza1
  • Esquire1
  • Bravo1
  • USA Today1
  • OpenTable1
  • Food Network1
  • Good Food Foundation1
  • Time Out1

Miami press & readers' choice

Local coverage and popularity polls. Useful for what a neighborhood rates, weaker as a quality signal.

  • Miami New Times12
  • South Beach Wine & Food Festival4
  • The Infatuation3
  • Miami Herald1
  • Local Chamber of Commerce1
  • Best of Jamaica Awards1
  • FACT1
  • Local & readers' choice19

The Michelin tiers

Four levels, and only one of them is a star. Knowing which is which changes what you book.

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Two Stars

Excellent cooking, worth a detour. Florida has exactly one.

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One Star

High-quality cooking, worth a stop. Book weeks out.

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Bib Gourmand

Good cooking at a moderate price. The list we use most.

27
In the Guide

Inspected and included, without a star or Bib.

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What the badge on the door is worth. A Bib Gourmand is not a runner-up star. A James Beard semifinalist has not won anything yet. And a wine award says nothing about the food. Worth knowing before you book.

Miami's Michelin star restaurants

Michelin only started covering Florida in 2022, so these are young stars by European standards, and the list still fits on one hand and a half. A star means the kitchen is the reason you came. Expect to book weeks out, expect the bill, and expect the meal to run long. Stars belong to a room, not a brand, so the second location of a starred restaurant is just a restaurant.

Two stars

One star

Michelin Bib Gourmand in Miami

The list we send people to most. Same inspectors, same standards, but the Bib goes to kitchens doing serious cooking without the ceremony or the price. A Cuban sandwich counter and a dim sum room sit on it next to each other. These are Tuesday places. No planning required.

Green Star

Given alongside the rating, not instead of it, for kitchens where where-it-came-from is part of the cooking rather than a line on the menu.

Michelin Guide Miami, no star

The widest tier and the one people skip past. It means an inspector sat down, ate, and thought the place belonged in the book. For a neighborhood spot, that is a real thing.

James Beard in Miami

America's own culinary award, and the one most often oversold. Semifinalist is a long list published every winter. Finalist is the short cut from it. Winner is one name per category for the entire country. Most Miami names here are semifinalists, which is still a chef being noticed nationally.

America's Classics

Finalist

Nominee

Semifinalist

Wine Spectator

This is a cellar award, not a kitchen one. Award of Excellence means someone built a real list. Best of Award of Excellence means they went deep. Read it as a promise about the bottle, not the plate.

Best of Award of Excellence

Award of Excellence

Forbes and AAA

These grade the whole experience, service and room included, which is why hotel dining does well here. Five-Star and Five-Diamond are the top rungs and thin on the ground nationally.

Forbes Five-Star

AAA Five-Diamond

Forbes Four-Star

That is the shortlist. Everything else we track is in the directory below.

The Full Award List

165 venues

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

Design District · French

  • Michelin Two Stars 2026

Ariete

Coconut Grove · New American / Cuban-French

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • James Beard Award Semifinalist 2026
  • Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2025

Boia De

MiMo · Italian

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • Michelin Sommelier Award 2024
  • James Beard Award Semifinalist 2020
  • +1 more

COTE Miami

Design District · Steakhouse

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence 2026

El Cielo Miami

Brickell · Colombian

  • Michelin Star 2026

Hiden

Wynwood · Japanese Omakase

  • Michelin Star 2026

Le Jardinier

Design District · French

  • Michelin Star 2026

Los Félix

Coconut Grove · Mexican / Mesoamerican

  • Michelin Star 2026

Mutra

Little River · Middle Eastern

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • Resy100 2025

Ogawa Miami

Little River · Japanese Omakase

  • Michelin Star 2026

Shingo

Coral Gables · Japanese Omakase

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2025

Stubborn Seed

South Beach · New American

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • 50 Best Discovery 2026

Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt

North Beach · French-Asian Fusion

  • Michelin Star 2026

The Surf Club Restaurant

Bal Harbour · American

  • Michelin Star 2026
  • Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence 2026

Krüs Kitchen

Coconut Grove · New American (Farm-to-Table)

  • Michelin Green Star 2026

Bachour

Coral Gables · Bakery

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Barra Callao

North Miami Beach · Peruvian

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Chug's Diner

Coconut Grove · Cuban-American / Diner

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Cotoa

Little River · Ecuadorian

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Double Luck Chinese

Downtown · Chinese

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

El Turco

MiMo · Turkish

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Ghee Indian Kitchen

Wynwood · Indian

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026
  • James Beard Award Nominee 2020
  • James Beard Award Semifinalist 2025

La Natural

Little River · Pizza

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026
  • Miami New Times Best of Miami 2025

Lucali

South Beach · Pizza

  • Michelin Bib Gourmand 2026

Bar awards

Bar awards live on the bars page

North America's 50 Best Bars, the Spirited Awards and the Pinnacle Guide sit with the rest of Miami's drinking scene rather than being listed twice.

Top bars in Miami

Questions people actually ask

How many Michelin star restaurants are in Miami?
15 stars across 14 rooms in the current guide, counting L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon's two. No Miami restaurant holds three, and neither does anywhere else in Florida.
When did the Michelin Guide come to Miami?
2022. Florida was the guide's first new U.S. state after New York, Chicago, California and Washington DC, and Miami took the bulk of the stars. That makes these young stars by European standards, where a room might hold one for forty years.
Is a Bib Gourmand worse than a star?
No, it is a different question. The Bib is Michelin's answer to where you eat well without the ceremony or the bill, judged by the same inspectors against the same standards. For most nights out it is the more useful list.
Does a second location get the same star?
No. Michelin rates a specific room and a specific kitchen, so the second outpost of a starred restaurant is just a restaurant until it earns its own. We list a venue only for what that venue earned.
Which Miami neighborhood has the most starred restaurants?
The Design District, which holds Miami's only two-star room along with two more one-star kitchens in a few walkable blocks. Coconut Grove and Coral Gables are the next densest.

How we keep this honest

Every award here comes off the awarding body's own published list and gets checked against the venue. We leave out review scores, popularity counts, and any award that belongs to a restaurant's flagship in another city. A Miami room is listed for what the Miami room earned, nothing inherited. Closed places come off. If something here has gone stale, tell us and we will check it.