Michelin adds 4 more Miami restaurants to its 2025 guide. Is one of them your favorite?
Three Miami-Dade restaurants and one glamorous aperitivo bar are among the 14 Florida restaurants that have just been named to the 2025 Michelin Guide.
This is the second time in 2025 the international dining guide, which evaluates restaurants around the world and delivers the prestigious Michelin stars, has added local restaurants. In January, six local spots were added: Cotoa in Miami; Grand Central in the MiMo neighborhood; Itamae Ao in the Design District; Palma near Little Havana; Sereira in Coconut Grove; and Torno Subito at Julia & Henry’s food hall in downtown Miami.
The four Miami restaurants will be added to Michelin’s Recommended list, which doesn’t mean they will necessarily earn a star this year — but they could. In 2024, three of the Miami-Dade spots elevated to the Recommended list in February ended up earning stars in April: EntreNos in Miami Shores, Ogawa in Little River and Shingo in Coral Gables.
The restaurants could also be added to Michelin’s Bib Gourmand list, which highlights restaurants that serve good food at reasonable prices.
Miami currently has 14 Michelin-starred restaurants, including Florida’s only two-star Michelin restaurant, L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in the Design District. In 2025, the guide will add three more Florida areas for consideration: Fort Lauderdale, the Palm Beaches and St. Petersburg-Clearwater.
Here are the Miami-area spots just added to the 2025 guide.
Kojin 2.0
Pedro and Katherine Mederos started Kojin as a pop-up in South Miami, then set up shop in the tiny space behind the former Hachidori Ramen in Little River. Now, they’ve moved into the former space of The Lion & The Rambler in Coral Gables and upgraded their Asian-infused concept (hence the 2.0).
Michelin saluted the restaurant’s foie toast, rye bread topped with goose liver ganache and strawberry preserves, also praising “equally creative dishes like bone marrow panna cotta finished with a stunning house-made coffee shoyu; a savory-sweet goat cheese cavatelli in a thick butternut squash sauce; or a creamsicle ice cream sandwich.”
Pedro Mederos said they were thrilled with the news.
“We feel incredibly honored,” he said. “With a new restaurant in the Gables, you kind of never really expect it. But we’re very happy, and my biggest thank you goes out to all the guests that come in to support us.”
804 Ponce de Leon, Coral Gables; www.kojin2.com or 786-747-1404
Recoveco
This small but elegant South Miami restaurant, from husband-and-wife team Nicolas Martinez and Maria Teresa Gallina, has a tiny but ferociously creative menu. Veterans of the kitchen at Wynwood pioneer Alter and the Design District’s Itamae, they opened in the summer of 2024 to immediate rave reviews.
Michelin agreed with the positive assessments. “The chicken liver mousse displays their signature flair, with house-made speculaas cookies made with peppercorn and cardamom piped with ribbons of velvety mousse and a star fruit jam,” the guide says. “Roasted dry-aged chicken is a signature, though, if on offer, the wagyu ribeye in a banana au poivre is a nice choice.”
Another nice choice: the beef tongue. If it’s available, even if you’re skeptical, order it.
6000 SW 74th St., Suite 1, South Miami; recovecorestaurant.com or 305-204-1811
Sunny’s Steakhouse
This Little River pandemic pop-up from Will Thompson and Chef Carey Hynes opened its glamorous new restaurant last October, and Miami has been fighting to get a reservation ever since. Bon Appétit called Sunny’s one of the must-try spots of the year — and everybody is still trying.
What impressed Michelin? “Pasta and several main dishes with plenty of swagger are appealing but it would be a sin to skip the steak,” according to the guide. “Though flavorful enough on their own, sauces like pineapple hot sauce and a rich bone marrow vinaigrette are a nice surprise. Russet potatoes fried in chicken schmaltz for a cross between smashed and roasted are a perfect side.”
7357 NW Miami Ct., Miami; https://resy.com
ViceVersa
The brainchild of celebrated bartender Valentino Longo and the creators of the now-closed but still beloved Jaguar Sun, this aperitivo bar in downtown Miami is dark and stylish — and almost as tough to get a reservation for as Sunny’s Steakhouse (which also involves the former Jaguar Sun creators).
Diners love the pizza, and so does Michelin. “Most are here for the crispy, thin Neapolitan-style pizza, which is a focus of the tightly edited menu, but raw bar selections like royal red shrimp with a punchy cherry bomb relish and a smattering of appetizers (think salads and meatballs) with a bold Italian-minded approach are equally worthy of attention,” the guide says. “All good things must come to an end, but when they’re met with gelato, it’s so much better. For the best of both worlds, order an affogato martini.” You had us at “affogato martini.”
398 NE Fifth St., Miami; www.viceversamia.com
Other Florida restaurants named to 2025 guide
For Orlando: Bánh Mì Boy (Vietnamese); Gyukatsu Rose (Japanese); Kai Kai (Chinese); Smokemade Meats + Eats (barbecue); Walala Hand-Pulled Noodle House (Chinese); Bar Kada (Japanese/International; in Winter Park)
For Tampa: Big Ray’s Fish Camp (seafood); Cousin Vinny’s Sandwich Co. (Italian-American); Fisk (Scandinavian/seafood); Mad Dogs & Englishmen (gastropub)
This story was originally published March 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM.