Michelin adds 8 Miami restaurants to its 2024 guide. Are your favorites on the list?
Eight Miami restaurants have been added to the 2024 Michelin Guide, along with six spots in Tampa and five in the Orlando area.
The additions don’t necessarily mean these restaurants will earn Michelin stars in 2024 (although they might — you never know). The idea is that they are highlighted as “new” to allow food lovers to check them out before the annual announcement of Michelin stars and Bib Gourmands (a designation for restaurants that serve excellent food at an affordable price).
This year’s announcement of Michelin stars and Bib Gourmands will take place April 18 in Tampa.
Last year, the guide highlighted eight Miami-area restaurants before the honors, praising Michael Beltran’s Brasserie Laurel in Miami; the Italian gem Fiola in Coral Gables; Lido at the Four Seasons Hotel in Surfside, which was just named a Forbes Four-Star restaurant for 2024; Chef Michael Bolen’s Lion & the Rambler in
Coral Gables; the brunch spot Rosie’s in Miami’s Little River neighborhood; The Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt at the Carillon Miami Wellness Resort in Miami Beach; Beltran’s The Gibson Room on Coral Way; and Walrus Rodeo in Little River from the team that earned a Michelin star in 2022 for its sister restaurant Boia De.
Only one of those restaurants, The Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt, earned a Michelin star in 2023 — only six months after its opening.
Here are the Miami-area restaurants that have been added to the guide for 2024:
EntreNos: The first restaurant for chefs Evan Burgess and Osmel Gonzalez, sharing the space at breakfast-and-lunch spot Tinta Y Cafe in Miami Shores, sources most of its small menu from the state of Florida. The guide uses the smoked, dry-aged cobia as a “perfect example of what this place does so well.”
Kaori: This is an upscale yet somewhat intimate Asian spot in Brickell where “indulgent wagyu and foie gras gyoza arrive with picture-perfect searing, and bluefin tuna comes dressed in a sharp coconut-lime sauce.”
Maty’s: Chef Valerie Chang’s Peruvian spot, named for her grandmother, has received a lot of attention: it was named one of the best new restaurants in the U.S. by Bon Appétit and Esquire. Loving the citrus-forward flavors, Michelin highlights Black grouper, kanpachi and ocean trout that arrive dressed with the likes of aji dulce, kiwiberries, finger limes and passionfruit.
Pez: This low-key Mexican restaurant in Miami is “temporarily closed,” according to Google and Yelp, and its phone is not connected. But Michelin liked ”atún con “mashaca,” made with diced yellowfin tuna, dried shredded beef and habanero cream,” saying it was a “thoroughly unexpected delight.” If the restaurant reopens, try it.
Ossobuco: This Wynwood restaurant is known for its steak and other meat dishes, but the guide reports that the lighter fare is worthwhile, too, praising the smoked baby beets with ricotta mousse, the ossobuco empanadas and sweetbreads with wagyu potato
Ogawa: Venezuelan restaurateur and art dealer Alvaro Perez Miranda, who runs the Miami restaurants Hiyakawa, Wabi Sabi and Midorie in Coconut Grove, opened this Japanese omakase spot in Little River. Michelin praises chef/co-owner Masayuki Komatsu for his baby sea eels with a soy-cured quail egg, bigfin reef squid in a shiso-miso sauce.
Shingo: Chef Shingo Akikuni, formerly of the Michelin-starred omakase spot Hiden in Wynwood, opened his own omakase restaurant in Coral Gables. “Fish is sourced almost entirely from Japan, sliced in uniform fashion, and, dressed with little more than a swipe of nikiri,” the guide writes.
Tam Tam: This popular Vietnamese spot in downtown Miami, run by Tam Pham and Harrison Ramhofer, is “bold, funky and fun,” says the guide. If you ask us, the don’t-miss items are the scallops and the chicken wings, but the menu offers plenty to explore. Don’t miss the hidden karaoke machine.
Asian food took center stage in the Orlando area. The Michelin guide added Japanese restaurants Zaru, Sushi Saint and Natsu; Vietnamese spot Camille and Chuan Fu, a Chinese restaurant in nearby Winter Park.
Six restaurants were added in Tampa: Supernatural Food & Wine (American cuisine;) Predalina (Mediterranean); Streetlight Taco (Mexican); The Pearl (American); Ebbe (contemporary); and Kosen (Japanese).