Miami is home to some of Florida's most vibrant nightlife, thanks to its numerous live music venues and beachfront dance clubs. Not surprisingly, Miami has no shortage of fine restaurants to choose from before heading out for a night on the town. Miami's top restaurants are lauded annually by Miami New Times magazine.
Downtown Miami's Sugarcane offers contemporary American cuisine and many different types of sushi. Starters include steamed pork buns, beef honeycomb tripe, bacon wrapped dates and goat cheese croquettes. Fresh shellfish appetizers range from hard shell lobster to king crab legs and white water clams. Dinner entrees range from skirt steak with chimichurri, grilled octopus and chicken with scallions and specialty sauce. Sushi rolls range from conventional sashimi style to specialty rolls like snow crab and caper mustard, avocado and chili leaves and salmon with crispy onion.
Sugarcane
3250 Northeast 1st Avenue
Miami, FL 33137
786-369-0353
sugarcanerawbargrill.com
La Cote offers contemporary French cuisine right on the Miami beachfront. Choose from raw bar starters like tuna tartar, stone crab claws with mustard aiolo and conch and rock shrimp escabeche. Several platters are on the menu for entire tables to enjoy, including grilled farmers bread with olive oil and steamed Prince Edward Island mussels with saffron broth and herbs. Grilled seafood entrees include the snapper fillet with lobster butter, grilled Maine lobsters with truffle corn relish and jumbo shrimp with saffron fennel and lemon. Several specialty sandwiches are also available for lunch and dinner, including a mahi tuna ciabatta and sirloin burger.
La Cote Restaurant
4441 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33140
305-674-4710
fontainebleau.com/lacote
Miami's Red Light on Biscayne Boulevard offers seafood and pub fare classics with a contemporary flair. An oyster stew, seafood gumbo and blue crab lobster bisque are all offered daily. House specialties include oyster pie on a bed of spinach, citrus steamed mussels with green tomatoes and lime chicken with cheese grits. The restaurants also serves a grilled New York strip with onions and a choice of side. Red Light's classic grilled cheeses can be paired with apple wood bacon or rosemary shrimp and tomato. Sides include macaroni and cheese, steamed fresh vegetable and basmati rice.
Red Light Little River
7700 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33138
305-757-7773
redlightmiami.com
