The Art Deco of South Beach, the murals of Wynwood and the cafecito of Little Havana – the tables, the hotels and the neighbourhoods, in one guide.
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Every table and hotel the MICHELIN inspectors have chosen in Miami – 9 starred, 8 Bib Gourmand, 19 more restaurants and 7 hotels – on one map, with our own stories as we write them.
Start at the Art Deco Welcome Center on Ocean Drive and join the Miami Design Preservation League's daily two-hour walking tour (about 1.5 miles; book a time online), or walk Ocean Drive, Collins and Washington Avenues on your own; the Welcome Center opens 09:00–17:00.
20 November is the third Friday, so Calle Ocho goes pedestrian-only between SW 14th and 17th Avenues from noon into the evening for Viernes Culturales – food, art and music in the street. Watch the games at Domino Park and walk the Walk of Fame.
Julio Cabrera's cantineros make the classic Cuban drinks – No. 42 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 – with live trova music; the bar opens at 16:00 and stays open until 02:00 on Fridays.
Michael Beltran's MICHELIN-starred Coconut Grove restaurant cooks New-American-meets-New-World dishes over a wood-fired grill; Friday dinner 17:30–23:00, last seating 22:30 (closed Monday and Tuesday).
Be at the gates when Vizcaya opens at 09:30 to have James Deering's bayfront villa and formal gardens before the crowds; open Wednesday–Monday until 16:30.
The Street Fair (20–22 November) fills Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus downtown with book stalls, food and music – have lunch at the stalls; the fair's site says it is free to walk in, with tickets for some author events.
The open-air street-art museum is open daily 10:30–18:30 (doors close 30 minutes earlier); children 12 and under go free and every ticket includes a turn with a spray can. Wander the surrounding Wynwood streets afterwards.
Up to the 40th floor of EAST Miami at Brickell City Centre – the Greater Miami CVB calls it the highest rooftop bar in Miami – for the sun going down over the city and bay; opens 16:00 (until 03:00 on Saturdays).
A few minutes' walk away on the Miami River, Juan Manuel Barrientos's MICHELIN-starred Colombian restaurant serves a multisensory tasting menu; open Wednesday–Monday 18:00–00:00. Reservations required.
Drive to the tip of Key Biscayne for the beach before it fills up, then climb the 109 steps of the 1825 Cape Florida Lighthouse – tours run 10:00–12:00 (closed Tuesday and Wednesday); the park opens at 08:00, $8 per car.
On the way back across the causeway, lunch on Virginia Key with floor-to-ceiling windows and a terrace looking across Biscayne Bay to Downtown; open Sunday 11:00–22:00, with weekend brunch.
Take the 14:30 tour of the Barnacle (1891), the oldest home in Miami-Dade County, set in a fragment of the old Miami hammock on the bay; grounds open Thursday–Monday 09:00–17:00, $2 entry and $3 for the house tour. Then stroll Peacock Park and Main Highway.
End the weekend a few steps along Main Highway at Los Félix, which the Greater Miami CVB lists among Miami's MICHELIN-starred restaurants and which holds a Green Star for Mexican cooking with sustainable, seasonal ingredients; Sunday dinner 17:30–22:00.
✱ MICHELIN star · Bib Gourmand: good cooking at a fair price · ◆ selected in the Guide · € to €€€€: the Guide's own price bands, from «on a budget» to «spare no expense».
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Sunset and drinks
Where to drink
Rooftops over Biscayne Bay, Cuban bars on Calle Ocho and two of North America's 50 Best.
Forty floors up at Brickell City Centre, a garden of a rooftop with 360-degree views over the towers and the bay – order sushi to share and watch the sun set over Miami.
The 1 Hotel's rooftop above South Beach: spritzes, organic wines and Japanese-Latin plates, with views from the Atlantic over the Art Deco rooftops to Biscayne Bay as the sun goes down.
The Cipriani family's rooftop above the Coconut Grove tree line, with Biscayne Bay and the marina below; the drink to order is the Bellini, which the family created.
Cuban cocktail bar and restaurant with live music · Little HavanaCafe La Trova
Maestro cantinero Julio Cabrera's bar on Calle Ocho: crisp daiquiris and mojitos in the classic Cuban style, Michelle Bernstein's food and live trova music – No. 42 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026.
Historic bar and live-music venue · Little HavanaBall & Chain
A Calle Ocho saloon since 1935 – Chet Baker played here – now a Cuban bar and dance hall with themed nights from Mambo Mondays and BachaTuesdays to Salsero Sundays.
Italian aperitivo cocktail bar · DowntownViceVersa
Rome-born Valentino Longo's low-lit aperitivo bar off the Elser's lobby – Negronis, Martinis and Italian bitters with wood-fired pizza; Best U.S. Hotel Bar at Tales of the Cocktail 2026 and No. 46 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026.
Twenty-two floors above Brickell, an indoor-outdoor lounge lit in pink with city views; the house drink is strawberry-lemongrass vodka with a rose-shaped ice cube.
An award-winning neighbourhood bar open until five every morning: happy-hour oysters, a deceptively strong Coconut Sazerac, always music and often live bands and DJs.
Sources: the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (miamiandbeaches.com), North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 (as reported by Time Out Miami) and the bars' own pages, read 27 October 2026.
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Where to stay
The hotels worth the trip
The MICHELIN Guide's Keys first – its mark for hotels with character, service and a sense of place – then the rest of its selection and the ones we would book ourselves.
The country's largest concentration of Art Deco – some 800 historic buildings on the National Register since 1979 – read street by street, from porthole windows and 'eyebrows' to neon and terrazzo.
Past Ocean Drive and Lummus Park, Collins Avenue and Washington Avenue (the district runs from 5th to 23rd Street), The Colony and Beacon hotels' neon facades
Guided tours daily, all year; the Welcome Center is open 09:00–17:00. Carry water in the middle of the day.
All ages welcome on the guided tour; children 12 and under go free (adults $50, seniors $40, 13–17 $35).
Start: Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach (where the Miami Design Preservation League's guided tour begins)
The easiest walk in Miami Beach: from the pier where the cruise ships pass, north along the sea to the Art Deco hotels of Ocean Drive.
Past South Pointe Pier and the cruise-ship channel to PortMiami, The 20-foot-wide South Pointe promenade with views of Fisher Island, The beach and dunes of South Beach
All year. South Pointe Park opens sunrise to sunset; Lummus Park 07:30 to sunset.
Pushchair-friendly paved paths; playgrounds with a splash zone at South Pointe and two playgrounds (ages 2–5 and 5–12) at Lummus Park, plus public toilets (City of Miami Beach).
Start: South Pointe Park, 1 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach (the pier at the southern tip)
The heart of Cuban Miami in a few blocks – dominoes, cafecito, cigar rollers and the Walk of Fame – with the Little Havana Visitor Center for guided walking and food tours.
Past Domino Park, where locals play dominoes, The Calle Ocho Walk of Fame (SW 12th–17th Avenues), with stars for Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia, The Celia Cruz mural at SW 13th Avenue
All year. Viernes Culturales (Cultural Fridays): on the third Friday of each month, from noon into the evening, Calle Ocho goes pedestrian-only between 14th and 17th Avenues with food, art and music.
Easy for all ages; Azucar Ice Cream Company makes tropical-fruit flavours on the strip.
Start: Máximo Gómez (Domino) Park, SW 8th Street at SW 15th Avenue, next to the Tower Theater
Downtown's front garden on Biscayne Bay, with the skyline at your back and the city's two big museums at the end of the walk.
Past Bayfront Park's lawns, fountain and Noguchi's Slide Mantra, Bayside Marketplace and the Skyviews observation wheel, Maurice A. Ferré Park, with the longest waterfront baywalk in Miami
All year. Bayfront Park is open daily 07:00–23:00.
Paved and pushchair-friendly; playground in Bayfront Park; the Metromover's Museum Park station is at the north end for the ride back.
Start: Bayfront Park, 301 N Biscayne Boulevard, Downtown Miami
Miami's oldest neighbourhood at walking pace: a bayfront park, then a pioneer's house in a surviving fragment of the old Miami hammock.
Past Peacock Park, on the site of the area's first hotel (1883), and its boardwalk over Biscayne Bay, Main Highway, The Barnacle (1891), the oldest residence in Miami-Dade County, in its bayfront hammock
The Barnacle grounds open Thursday–Monday 09:00–17:00, closed Tuesday, Wednesday, Christmas and New Year's Day; house tours at 10:00, 11:30, 13:00 and 14:30. Entry $2 per person on foot or bike (Florida State Parks).
Playground in Peacock Park.
Start: Peacock Park, 2820 McFarlane Road, Coconut Grove
The southern tip of Key Biscayne: Miami's oldest structure, a long beach and a sheltered harbour where boats anchor for the sunset.
Past The Cape Florida Lighthouse (first built 1825) and keeper's cottage, The beach facing the Atlantic and the Stiltsville houses offshore, Tree-lined trails through the park
Park open 08:00 to sundown all year; lighthouse tours 10:00–12:00, closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Entry $8 per vehicle or $2 on foot or bike.
Lighthouse climbers must be at least 42 inches (106 cm) tall and able to climb on their own; bikes for hire; free beach wheelchairs at the bike rental (Florida State Parks, Greater Miami CVB).
Start: Cape Florida Lighthouse, Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, 1200 S Crandon Boulevard, Key Biscayne
One of the most popular trails in the Everglades for its abundance of wildlife: a short self-guided loop through the sawgrass where alligators and wading birds are often close to the path.
Past The sawgrass marsh, Alligators, turtles, anhingas, herons, egrets and many other birds, The boardwalk over open water
Wildlife is best in winter (National Park Service). The park is open 24 hours a day.
Short, flat and wheelchair accessible, so it suits pushchairs and small children; keep your distance from alligators.
Start: Royal Palm Visitor Center, 4 miles (6 km) from the main park entrance at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center, near Homestead
Sources: the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (miamiandbeaches.com), the Miami Design Preservation League, the City of Miami Beach, Florida State Parks and the National Park Service, read 27 October 2026. Coastal paths close in rough seas – check before you set off.
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With kids
Miami for children
Beaches, museums, zoos and airboats – from South Beach to the Everglades.
An aquarium, a planetarium and a science museum in one bayfront building: hammerhead sharks circle the three-level Gulf Stream Aquarium and children can touch stingrays on the open-air rooftop.
Open every day of the year, 10:00–17:00 (museum website, read 27 October 2026).
The city's Smithsonian-affiliated history museum; its permanent exhibition, Tropical Dreams: A People's History of South Florida, gives children the story of the place before they go out and see it.
An eco-adventure park on Watson Island with lemurs, capybaras, sloths and flamingos, a canopy playground of linked treehouses (Treewalk Village) and the Treetop Trekking ropes and zip lines.
Open every day 09:30–17:00, last admission 16:00; Saturday 31 October 09:30–16:00 (park website, read 27 October 2026).
James Deering's Renaissance-style winter estate on Biscayne Bay, begun in 1914, with formal gardens and canals cut into the tropical hammock – a palace children can roam around outside as well as in.
Wednesday–Monday 09:30–16:30, closed Tuesday (museum website, read 27 October 2026).
Ninety minutes on Biscayne Bay past the Downtown skyline, PortMiami, Fisher Island, Miami Beach and the waterfront homes of 'Millionaire's Row', narrated in English and Spanish – air-conditioned below, open deck above.
Daily, hourly departures; current timetable 11:00–19:00, with a winter timetable from 1 November 2026 to 14 March 2027 (operator website, read 27 October 2026).
An open-air street-art museum of huge, regularly repainted murals by artists from Shepard Fairey to Kenny Scharf – and every ticket includes a go with a spray can.
Open daily 10:30–18:30; doors close 30 minutes before closing (Wynwood Walls website, read 27 October 2026).
Fifty thousand square feet of immersive art – a mirrored maze, digital worlds of flowers and waterfalls, and a room where your own heartbeat pulses through 3,000 lights – that children walk into rather than look at.
Monday–Thursday 11:00–19:00, Friday–Saturday 10:00–20:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00 (Superblue website, read 27 October 2026; listed as special hours).
Herzog & de Meuron's bayfront museum of modern and contemporary art from the Americas, the Caribbean and the African diaspora, with hanging gardens, big outdoor sculptures and a terrace over Biscayne Bay where children can roam.
A mile of sand on the bay with an antique carousel by the sea and a miniature train through the wetlands – and a history worth telling children: opened in 1945 as Miami's beach for Black residents during segregation.
The book fair takes over downtown for a week in November, and its three-day Street Fair of book stalls, food and music is the part for families, with programmes for children and teens.
15–22 November 2026; Street Fair Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November (Miami Book Fair website, read 27 October 2026).
A contemporary art museum that is always free, with a sculpture garden and one-hour Family Sunday workshops – and outside, the Design District's public art, much of it interactive enough for children to play on.
Galleries Wednesday–Sunday 11:00–18:00, closed Monday and Tuesday and on major federal holidays (ICA Miami website, read 27 October 2026).
Ten blocks of beach park between the Atlantic and the Art Deco hotels of Ocean Drive, with one playground for under-fives and another for children up to 12, and lifeguard towers to climb for the view.
Park 07:30 to sunset; playground sunrise to midnight (City of Miami Beach).
A free nature centre at the north end of Crandon Park whose Seagrass Adventures put children in the shallows of Biscayne Bay with nets to find what lives in the seagrass.
Open daily 09:00–16:00 (nature centre website, read 27 October 2026).
Bring a blanket and a picnic: films and live New World Symphony concerts are projected on to the 7,000-square-foot wall of Frank Gehry's New World Center, under the palms and free for everyone.
The free SoundScape Cinema Series returns in October 2026, films at 20:00, rain or shine; WALLCAST concerts of the 2026–27 season are on the New World Symphony calendar (New World Symphony website).
Pool · Ages From 3 years and at least 38 inches (97 cm) tallVenetian Pool
A 1920s former coral-rock quarry turned spring-fed swimming pool, with waterfalls, caves and grottos under Venetian-style loggias – swimming in a film set.
Tuesday–Friday 11:00–17:30, Saturday–Sunday 10:00–16:30, closed Monday (City of Coral Gables, read 27 October 2026).
Two miles of sand with calm water behind an offshore sandbar, picnic areas, and near the beach a restored 1949 carousel and an old-fashioned outdoor roller rink.
Eighty-three acres of rainforest, lakes, orchids and butterflies founded by the plant explorer David Fairchild in 1938, with a free narrated tram tour for small legs.
Open daily 10:00–17:00 (garden website, read 27 October 2026).
A county park on Biscayne Bay, opened in 1930, with a sandy beach and a natural atoll pool – a lagoon with lifeguards at weekends, where children swim away from open water.
Beach, picnic shade and bike paths at the end of Key Biscayne, crowned by the Cape Florida Lighthouse of 1825 – 109 spiral steps up to a balcony looking out over Stiltsville and Miami Beach.
Park open 08:00 to sundown, 365 days a year; lighthouse tours 10:00–12:00, closed Tuesday and Wednesday (Florida State Parks).
One of Florida's largest urban parks: paddle a kayak or canoe through the mangroves of the river estuary, swim from a sandy beach in a lagoon off Biscayne Bay and ride the bike trails.
Park open 08:00 to sundown, 365 days a year; Oleta River Outdoor Center (rentals) 09:00 weekdays, 08:00 weekends, to one hour before sunset (Florida State Parks).
Florida's largest zoo, laid out as open-air habitats from the Everglades to Africa, Asia and Australia along four miles of paths – and the giraffes take lettuce from your hand.
Open every day of the year, 10:00–17:00, last ticket 16:00; closes at 16:00 on Zoo Lights nights (27–28 November and selected December dates) (zoo website, read 27 October 2026).
Miami-Dade County (unincorporated) · about 35 min by car
Charles Deering's 1920s bayfront estate: historic houses, a mangrove boardwalk and nature trails across 444 acres of protected coastal land, with a centuries-old Tequesta burial mound on the naturalist-led tour.
Daily 10:00–17:00, no admission after 16:00; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas.
A third-generation family farm in the Redland where autumn means a pumpkin patch, South Florida's only five-acre corn maze, hayrides and sunflower fields – and the berry milkshakes are reason enough.
Harvest Festival on now through 15 November 2026; the Winter Festival follows.
Miami-Dade County (unincorporated) · about 45 min by car
More than 40 historic rail cars, among them the presidential Pullman 'Ferdinand Magellan' used by Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan, plus model trains, Thomas the Tank Engine play tables and weekend train rides.
Wednesday–Friday 11:00–16:00, Saturday–Sunday 10:00–16:00; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day (museum website).
Miami-Dade County (unincorporated) · about 45 min by car
A sculpture garden of 1,100 tons of coral rock, carved and moved single-handedly over 28 years by a Latvian immigrant left at the altar, Edward Leedskalnin – how he did it is still a mystery, which is exactly what children love.
Open daily from 09:00; the website gives closing as 19:00 or 20:00 (gates close 30 minutes after the last tour) – check the day before you go.
A farm stand that a six-year-old opened in 1959, now famous for exotic tropical fruit, with a petting zoo and picnic area included – the classic stop on the way to Everglades National Park.
Open every day 09:00–18:00, rain or shine; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day (Robert Is Here website).
A county botanical park of tropical fruit and spice trees from around the world, with daily tasting tours where a guide shows you what is ripe and good to eat that season.
Daily 10:00–17:00; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day (Miami-Dade County).
A narrated open-air tram along a 15-mile loop through the sawgrass, with a 45-foot observation tower halfway round looking out 20 miles in every direction – the easiest way to show children the Everglades.
Tram tours and bike hire daily 08:30–18:00 (Shark Valley Tram Tours).
Everglades National Park (Miami-Dade County) · about 60 min by car
A small, shaded, old-Florida working farm with more than 2,000 alligators; the gator show and a feeding are included in the ticket, and airboat rides can be added.
Open daily 09:00–17:30 (farm website and Greater Miami CVB).
The largest marine park in the US national park system – 95 per cent of it water – where the Biscayne National Park Institute takes families out by boat, paddle and snorkel to the reefs, mangroves and the lighthouse on Boca Chita Key.
Visitor centre daily 09:00–17:00; Convoy Point canoe/kayak launch and green space 07:00–17:30 (National Park Service).
Sources: the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (miamiandbeaches.com), Miami-Dade County Parks, the City of Miami Beach, the City of Coral Gables, Florida State Parks, the National Park Service and the places' own pages, read 27 October 2026. Drive times from the town centre without traffic. Check seasons and ages with the place before you go.
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The atlas
Miami at a glance
The MICHELIN tables, the hotels and the sights, on one map.
Photo: mark/Adobe Stock
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The directory
Every place in Miami
Every restaurant, hotel and sight the MICHELIN Guide lists within 6 km – 43 places, each with its own page. The six nearest the centre of each kind are here; the rest are in the directory, A to Z.
EatZak the Baker – Wynwood's kosher sourdough since 2012Inside Zak the Baker, Zak Stern's kosher bakery and café in Wynwood, Miami, selected in the MICHELIN Guide since 2022.
EatThe Gibson Room – Coral Way's candlelit tavern from a Star chef
EatTo Be Determined – Coral Way's ever-changing Bib Gourmand
EatTaquiza – the taco counter that doubles as a tortilla factory
EatPhuc Yea – Viet-Cajun swagger inside a 1950s Miami motor hotel
EatPalma – Little Havana's candlelit laboratory of flavour
EatOssobuco – fire as the main ingredient in Wynwood
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