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Miami Spice is back, and your taste buds should be very excited. For two glorious months, the city’s hottest restaurants are offering multi-course meals at can’t-say-no prices. Fine dining? Check. Hidden gems? Check. Excuses to eat out every night? Check, check, check.
Bombay Darbar
Coconut Grove’s premier Indian restaurant is offering lunch and dinner specials for Miami Spice every day. Come for lunch and enjoy a $35 multi-course affair with items like chili chicken, samosa chaat, and mango kulfi. For dinner, guests can enjoy a $45 meal featuring butter chicken wings, tandoori shrimp goan curry, pistachio kulfi, and more.
CLAUDIE
Making its debut in this year’s Miami Spice lineup, CLAUDIE presents a refined three-course, prix-fixe dinner for $60 per person, available Sunday-Thursday. The menu celebrates French-Mediterranean flavors with a modern touch, beginning with appetizer selections like heirloom tomato gazpacho, Boston lettuce heart, traditional pissaladière, branzino carpaccio, and escargots.
For the main course, guests can take their pick from a flavorful lineup that includes spinach and ricotta ravioli, Faroe Island salmon, roasted chicken supreme, truffle toupie macaroni, or oak wood grilled steak frites. To finish on a sweet note, desserts include a classic crème brûlée, refreshing green apple sorbet, or the signature Tropezienne tart.
CLAUDIE is located at 1101 Brickell Ave S-113, Miami, FL 33131. For more information, visit their official website.
Cleo
New to this year’s Miami Spice lineup, Cleo at the historic Balfour in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood is offering a bold, flavorful Eastern Mediterranean dinner menu for $45.
Guests can choose appetizers such as creamy hummus with zhoug and olive oil paired with house-made jou jou pita or fresh crudités; spicy cigars filled with ground lamb, labneh, and feta; or harissa tuna tartare with avocado, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, and herbs.
Entrées include a range of Mediterranean-inspired favorites, such as grilled octopus with green chermoula and harissa aioli, grilled and glazed wagyu beef skirt steak, or crispy cauliflower tossed in garlic lemon pepper and finished with tomato salsa. For dessert, diners can enjoy a bright pomegranate granita topped with almond crunch or the decadent baklawa tower with pistachio gelato and cream.
Cleo is also offering a $35 Miami Spice lunch menu, with dishes like the traditional Greek salad of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, crumbled feta, and red wine vinaigrette; corvina ceviche with leche de tigre, avocado, coriander, and dill oil; or spiced marinated chicken kebab. Lunch ends with tropical yogurt panna cotta, Greek yogurt topped with fresh fruit, and raspberry sorbet.
Cleo is located at 350 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139. For more information, visit their official Instagram.
Daniel’s
For a tremendous steakhouse value, make a reservation at Daniel’s in South Miami. The neighborhood newbie is pulling out all the stops for brunch ($35), lunch ($35), and dinner ($60). For brunch, selections include smoked salmon, Florida royal red shrimp and grits, and cage-free eggs Benedict.
For lunch, you’ll find steak tartare, grilled Canary Island branzino, and black Angus filet mignon au poivre among the many options. Dinner features strawberry gazpacho, Florida oysters Rockefeller, orecchiette pasta, braised lamb shank, and tiramisu, among other standouts.
Daniel’s is located at 1500 San Ignacio Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33146. For more information, visit their official website.
Estiatorio Milos
As part of this year’s Miami Spice program, Estiatorio Milos — the family-owned, internationally acclaimed Greek restaurant founded by Costas Spiliadis — is offering an elegant three-course, prix-fixe dinner for $60 per person.
Available nightly, Monday-Sunday, guests can celebrate the pristine ingredients and refined Mediterranean flavors that define the restaurant. The first course features standout options such as the meze platter, fried Rhode Island calamari, raw fish platter (+$10), and the beloved Greek salad. For the second course, guests can choose from dishes like dorade royale, grilled lamb chops (+$10), Hiddenfjord salmon, and Astako-Makaronada — a lobster pasta prepared Athenian-style.
The final course includes traditional Greek yogurt topped with walnuts and your choice of thyme honey or spoon sweets, as well as Karydopita, a spiced Greek walnut cake, and fresh lemon sorbet. Wine pairings are also available upon request.
Estiatorio Milos is located at 730 1st St, Miami Beach, FL 33139. For more information, visit their official website.
Double Knot
For the first time, Double Knot is participating in Miami Spice with a $60 per person, family-style dinner menu that includes one robatayaki, one crispy dish, one meat or fish, one side, one small plate, and one cold dish, plus mochi for dessert. At the Wynwood izakaya, guests can upgrade their experience with premium selections like the NY Strip or Nabemono for an additional $5 per item. Don’t forget to ask your server about Double Knot’s Miami Spice featured cocktail to round out your meal.
Double Knot is located at 2550 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33127. For more information, visit their official website.
Elia on the River
Elia on the River is serving up big coastal Italian flavors for Miami Spice this year. Offering Miami Spice dinner Sunday-Thursday, the Miami River restaurant is crafting a $60 three-course feast comprised of highlights like bruschetta, meatballs, spicy rigatoni, chicken paillard, and tiramisu.
Ironside Pizza
Ironside Pizza is doing Miami Spice right with tasty $35 and $45 meal options available Tuesday-Sunday. For the $35 lunch offer, customers can indulge in items like baked ricotta dip, calzone Napoli, and panna cotta. For the $45 dinner option, expect selections such as Nonna’s meatballs, lasagna Bolognese, and Nutella pizza.
Kitchen 57
South Miami’s Kitchen 57 is a neighborhood favorite, and their Miami Spice offerings should continue to cement that reputation. Pop in for their Miami Spice lunch ($35) and you’ll find grilled Caesar salad, Philly grilled cheese, open-faced eggplant parm, and bread pudding. For dinner ($45), you’ll encounter burnt ends, seared salmon, filet pappardelle, and key lime custard, among other standouts. Available Tuesday-Saturday.
Loretta and the Butcher
Craving an Argentine-inspired Miami Spice outing? Look no further than Loretta and the Butcher in Coconut Grove. Offering brunch ($35), lunch ($35), and dinner ($60), guests are in for a treat. Options include beef empanada, chicken milanesa, tres leches cake, provoleta, ossobuco, and steak and eggs, depending on when you visit. Dinner is available every day, while lunch is available weekdays and brunch is available on weekends.
Michael’s Genuine
This year, Michael’s Genuine is offering a weekday three-course lunch ($35) and a three-course dinner Monday-Saturday ($45). Similar to their regular menu, the Miami Spice offerings will change a few times per week, reflecting the restaurant’s seasonal, sustainable philosophy. Guests can visit multiple times throughout the two-month period and experience entirely new dishes.
There will be two permanent dishes during dinner, including a shrimp and chorizo arancini with smoked chili aioli and a wood-oven roasted eggplant baked with tomato, harissa, feta, za’atar chickpeas, herbs, and served with homemade pita. In the spirit of mango season, guests can expect desserts like a refreshing mango tres leches with fresh mango and coconut crème.
Michael’s Genuine is located at 130 NE 40th St, Miami, FL 33137. For more information, visit their official website.
Old Lisbon
Old Lisbon’s Aventura and South Miami locations are joining in on the Miami Spice fun this year. At the Aventura outpost, guests can swing by for lunch ($35), brunch ($35), and dinner ($60) specials that include selections like flaming Portuguese sausage, grilled Portuguese sardines, seafood rice, NY strip pepper steak, and port wine flan.
Visiting South Miami? That location is home to lunch selections like smoked sausage croquettes, shredded codfish, and Portuguese almond tart. For dinner, there’s grilled shrimp sizzling in garlic sauce, Chilean seabass, and limoncello tartufo; there is no Miami Spice brunch at this outpost. At South Miami, lunch is available Monday-Friday and dinner is available Sunday-Saturday; Aventura offers lunch Monday-Friday, dinner Sunday-Thursday, and brunch on weekends.
Paperfish Sushi
Paperfish Sushi has lunch ($35) and dinner ($60) offerings for Miami Spice this year. Choose from items like miso soup, a bento box, and assorted mochi for a mid-day meal. For dinner, expect a sushi tasting that changes depending on the location, plus selections such as beef udon teriyaki, chicken yakitori, and aro crème brulee. Lunch is available on weekdays and dinner is available every day.
Paya
Offering Miami Spice for dinner ($60), Paya is highlighting no shortage of tasty island-inspired fare. Appetizers include items like coconut wahoo ceviche and truffle brie grilled cheese. For entrées, there’s prime skirt steak, lemongrass-glazed daily catch, and other delicious selections. For a sweet ending, choose rum cake or coconut key lime tart. Dinner is available every day.
Primo’s
Downtown’s Italian favorite Primo’s has you covered with Miami Spice lunch ($35) and dinner ($60). Among the many lunch options are all-beef meatballs, rigatoni Bolognese, and crème brûlée. For dinner, standouts include spinach and pear salad, branzino piccata, and chocolate lava cake. Lunch and dinner are available every day.
Shiso
New to Miami Spice, Shiso brings its inventive take on Asian Smokehouse cuisine with a $60 prix fixe dinner menu, available Wednesday-Sunday. Guests can start with options like stracciatella, bluefin tuna, or the refreshing Shiso salad, followed by entrées including sticky ribs, Chilean seabass, or oxtail udon. For those looking to splurge, the decadent uni rice is available as a $25 supplement. Seasonal sides like broccolini and crispy potatoes round out the meal, with indulgent endings such as Japanese sweet potato cheesecake or miso flan donatsu.
Shiso is located at 239 NW 28th St, Miami, FL 33127. For more information, visit their official website.
