Choices Organic Caf

Even the most ravenous meat-eater has days when a T-bone or pulled pork feels like a little too much. On those days, do your body good with some eats from Choices Organic Caf

Chopsticks House

Thai owners satisfy a double demand with expertly prepared Thai and Chinese fare. Spring rolls are fresh and greaseless, stuffed with shredded vegetables. Larb tofu is marinated bean curd, chopped and tossed in the deep fryer. Black bean and red curry rival each other for best sauce; pad thai is the house specialty. Lunch and […]

Christy’s Restaurant

The decor is best described as “clubby,” a place where powerful men feel at home, and women feel as though they’re in a club for powerful men. Though the motto is “Famous for prime steaks and fresh seafood,” most guests seem to order the steaks. Can’t blame them, because the beef is prime, Midwestern, corn-fed, […]

Chuck Wagon Restaurant

In Miami you can get a pan Cubano and café con leche just about anyplace, but an American breakfast requires a bit of a search. So lovers of corned beef hash and biscuits with gravy, rejoice, because Chuck Wagon can satisfy your yearnings for a great morning meal. The menu offers an abundance of choices: […]

Chug’s Diner

Michael Beltran distinctly remembers the day he got his nickname. It was his first day as a high school freshman; Beltran walked in late to class, a chocolate milk chug in hand. Today, Chug is the name of the restaurateur’s Cuban-American diner, a successful pop-up he’s since expanded into a permanent, full-service eatery and modern-day […]

Churchill’s Pub

A local institution, Churchill’s Pub has hosted more live shows than just about any other venue in town. For more than 40 years, this dive bar has been a haven for the punk and alternative bands that played on its indoor and outdoor stages. Even as it hosted the likes of Marilyn Manson (or that […]

Cibo Wine Bar

Nobody knows wining and dining like the Italians, and Cibo Wine Bar is a modern, sophisticated take on the centuries-old concept. You could even call it wine heaven, and there’s even an angel involved. Like any good spirit, she takes flight (via harness), procuring bottles of vino for guests. To soak up the celestial spirits, […]

Cindy Lou’s

At what may be Miami’s first artisanal cookie shop, there are 30 varieties, including salted double chocolate filled with Nutella, cheesecake, lemon cloud, and Oreo crunch. Owned by Cindy Kruse, a local baker with more than 25 years of pastry experience at restaurants including Barton G. and Gigi, the store molds and decorates every cookie […]

Cioppino

The ingredients do the talking at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne’s clean and classic Italian outpost with a modern twist. Raw fish junkies will melt for the Pacific Coast wild salmon crudo, visually pleasing in shades of pink and green, featuring delicate but generous slices that come nestled beside a manicured micro-herb salad drizzled with Sicilian […]

Cipriani Downtown Miami

During the Roaring Twenties in Venice, Italy, a bartender named Giuseppe Cipriani loaned a customer 10,000 lire (about $5,000) after hearing that the man, a wealthy Bostonian named Harry Pickering, was cut off from his fortune after his family found out he was drinking much of his money away. Sure, that was generous for a […]

The Citadel

The mixed-use complex, which also offers shopping, entertainment, and office space, houses a food hall with concepts from a handful of Miami’s most popular chefs and restaurants. Find one of Miami’s best burgers at USBS Craft burgers and great coffee at Vice City Bean. This means you can get the best of Miami’s local food […]

City Hall Restaurant

You like meat loaf? Of course you do. Then you’ll surely love a whole lot of it, as in a miniloaf sweetly glazed with tomato marmalade, flagged with frizzy fried onions, and paired with skinny green beans, a side of old-school gravy, and a dish of mac ‘n’ cheese — a sweet-and-salty rendition with chorizo […]

CJ’s Crab Shack

Despite its location at the center of the tourist universe, CJ’s feels like a hole in the wall that you might find on a beach in Clearwater. The ambiance is perfect for unwinding; the outside has shell-adorned mirrors hanging from the walls while flat screens peep out from second floor windows. After sunset, tea-light lanterns […]