Living Room

Nearly every W Hotel is equipped with a Living Room bar, but the W South Beach’s iteration is uniquely Miami. If you’re looking for a scene where A-listers, sports figures, models, the rich, and tourists from Omaha can coexist in harmony, this is it. Here some of the best bartenders in South Florida serve drinks […]

Local House Restaurant

Located on the ground floor of the 18-room boutique hotel Sense Beach House, Local House feels more like a weekend hideaway than a restaurant. Grab a seat inside at one of the wing-back ocean-breeze-hued booths or bring a group and take over the terrace. Either way, order a mimosa pitcher made with freshly squeezed orange […]

Lost Weekend

Step off Collins Avenue and into Lost Weekend, and you might forget you’re smack in the center of South Beach. The bar is named for John Lennon’s affair with his and Yoko Ono’s assistant, May Pang – a “lost weekend” that lasted 18 months. The bar offers cocktails, craft beers – and cheesesteaks. For those […]

LT Steak & Seafood

Inside the Betsy Hotel, LT Steak & Seafood boasts a considerable wow factor before the first course even arrives. Appetizers comprise mostly cold dishes, including shrimp cocktail, tuna tartare, and raw bar selections such as clams, oysters, and stone crabs. Even the sole warm offering – a moist, lusciously herbed crab cake – comes pooled […]

Lucali

At first sight, Lucali, the Miami outpost of Mark Iacono’s famed Brooklyn flagship, looks like a regular pizza joint. Furnishings are unassuming – mismatched tables and chairs, an open kitchen, a working bench manned by T-shirted pizzaiolos – but by candlelight, everything glows. Men in white shine with sweat as they use empty wine bottles […]

Lush South Beach

It’s a hole-in-the-wall bar hidden in plain sight between an alley and the World Erotic Art Museum. Lush’s motto is “day care for drunks,” and it offers a pool table, jukebox, and beer bongs to prove it. There’s no cover charge, dress code, or typical South Beach attitude. Here you will find a place to […]

Lutum

As Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood has grown more popular, the offerings at restaurants in the area have become increasingly varied but also more expensive. Lutum – from local operators Washington Charles and Antar Sosa, along with chef Mike Mayta – is the antidote. An ethereal chicken liver mousse begins with the organ meat taking […]

Mac’s Club Deuce

One of the few remaining dive bars in Miami Beach (and one of the oldest), Mac’s Club Deuce is the seaside town’s definitive spot to drink, feed the jukebox, and shoot pool. Not much has changed inside this legendary establishment, which opened in 1926. Find a selection of craft and domestic beers and enough hard […]

Macchialina

Chef Michael Pirolo spent years traveling and cooking at Michelin-starred temples in Piedmont, Lombardy, Bologna, and Campagne. When he returned to the United States, he linked up with Scott Conant and eventually led the opening of Scarpetta at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach before debuting his own Italian restaurant, Macchialina. Pirolo’s skills are many and precise, […]

Maiko Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar

Innovative makimono (sushi rolls) aplenty, including the lip-licking kissing roll — crab, avocado, cucumber, and spicy sauce rolled inside-out with flying fish roe, then layered with cream cheese, smoked salmon, and daikon pickle. Get hotter with beef negimaki, scallions rolled in thin-sliced beef and doused in teriyaki sauce. Entrées such as eel fillet sautéed and […]