The best way to spread some holiday cheer is through food and drink. Luckily, Miami is a playground for inventive restaurants, offering everything from lavish, booze-flowing outposts to intimate spaces with ingredient-driven menus. Besides lunch and dinner outings, make sure to add an alfresco brunch to your to-do list this holiday season. As the weather cools, Miami’s brunch scene has largely moved outdoors, creating fun and inviting environments filled with pork belly sliders, shakshuka, and meringue-infused sweets. Grab your fanciest hat and largest shades because these are the five best places across town to snag a tasty brunch-inspired meal under the warm winter sun.

In 2017, Miami can expect one eatery wildly different from anything seen this past year. Edukos describes itself as “an exuberant tavern for the adventurous.” Inspired to name his restaurant for the Latin word educo, which means “to lead, to draw out,” founder/owner John Guilarte wants to encourage diners to try new foods and build new experiences.

Shortly after Ariete, an intimate Coconut Grove eatery, successfully opened at the beginning of 2016, owners Jason Odio and Michael Beltran immediately began concentrating on their next venture: Baby Jane. The Brickell space, which is both a bar/lounge and restaurant, opened in May with a cocktail-centered menu, along with small bites such as kale oysters Rockefeller doused in a garlic-Parmesan sauce, and wings tossed in a house-made jerk seasoning.

James Seyba, former executive chef at Miam Café, told New Times in November that he left the Wynwood eatery to find work closer to home. But now Seyba, who previously worked at the Broken Shaker, 27 Restaurant & Bar, and Centro Taco, is ready to divulge the real reason: He’s opening Jamie’s Juice Bar & Kitchen in the Lincoln Park shopping plaza in Hollywood (6856 Stirling Rd.).

On a blinding-white electronic billboard hanging above the counter at a Jugofresh juice bar inside Whole Foods Market in Aventura, pictures of vibrantly colored smoothies are accompanied by strange names such as “Almond Strong” and “Raw Power.” A rainbow of juice bottles fills an open-faced refrigerator below. They have similarly…

If you’re craving poke in Miami, you’re in luck. Wynwood recently welcomed a second independently owned eatery specializing in the trendy Hawaiian seafood dish. Ono Poke Shop is located at 2320 N. Miami Ave.

At the top of the Langford Hotel in downtown Miami sits Pawn Broker, a bar and lounge by the Pubbelly Boys. On Sundays, the chic spot gives the city’s brunch scene something different: a swank rooftop affair similar to those in New York City.

It has been about 15 years since La Estancia Argentina opened in Aventura, bringing a South American-inspired bakery, deli, and cafe to the North Miami suburban neighborhood. Founder/owner Claudio Kojusne says it’s time to grow. A second outpost of La Estancia is now open at the Shops of Civica at 1050 NW 14 St. across from the Jackson Memorial Hospital campus.

Instacream N7, a Hialeah-born nitrogen ice-cream store, looks like something straight out of a comic book. An image of a yellow-haired, goofy-looking animated scientist, holding a bubbling pink-and-blue flask, commands the store’s wall. A few steps away, metal pipes dangle above the shop’s counter; behind it hangs a large red-and-white flavor menu. A light white smoke, a product of making nitrogen ice cream, envelops the cartoonish scene.

This past November, Steelcity, a coffee concept from Linz, Austria, set up shop thousands of miles away at the Wynwood Yard. Whipping up dark-blend espressos, the pop-up coffee shop brings traditional European-style java to Miami, something founders/owners Anela Hrnic and Michael Holaschke believe the city is in dire need of.