Miami has no shortage of restaurant rankings. But this one is a little different.
Instead of looking at online reviews, social media mentions or reservations, we looked at where Miami Limo Car customers were actually asking to be driven during the 2025/2026 season.
Across thousands of one-way transfers and hourly chauffeur bookings, certain restaurant names appeared again and again. Some were established Miami institutions. Others had only recently opened their doors.
And one restaurant wasn't even close to the rest.
Based on our booking data, these were the 10 most frequently visited Miami restaurants among our customers during the 2025/2026 season.
1. MILA Miami
MILA didn't simply take first place.
It dominated.
More than 33% of the restaurant-bound rides in the data we reviewed included MILA as a destination, ranging from straightforward dinner transfers to customers keeping their chauffeur by the hour for the evening.
Located on a rooftop just off Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, MILA describes its cuisine as "MediterrAsian" , combining Mediterranean and Japanese influences and serving many dishes in an informal izakaya-style format designed for sharing. Its culinary program is led by Chef Michaël Michaelidis together with Corporate Chef Joshua Walls.
Cuisine: MediterrAsian - Mediterranean & Japanese Culinary leadership: Chef Michaël Michaelidis & Corporate Chef Joshua Walls Neighborhood: Miami Beach Good to know: Reservations are strongly recommended.
Something you may not know: When MILA originally opened, the approximately 13,000-square-foot venue included a 3,000-square-foot water feature. Even more unusual, the restaurant was reported to use its own proprietary fragrance throughout the space as part of the overall sensory experience.
Source: MILA official restaurant page Additional detail: Eater Miami - Inside MILA
2. Cipriani Downtown Miami
Coming in second is one of the most established luxury dining names on this list: Cipriani.
Located at Icon Brickell on the Miami River, Cipriani Downtown Miami offers the classic Italian dishes associated with the international Cipriani brand in a bright waterfront dining room overlooking Biscayne Bay.
It is particularly popular with our corporate, international and long-time luxury transportation clients, the type of restaurant where seeing several black SUVs waiting outside at the same time is hardly unusual.
Cuisine: Classic Italian Culinary lineage: Cipriani family Neighborhood: Brickell Good to know: Waterfront views are an important part of the experience.
Something you may not know: Cipriani Downtown Miami opened in May 2013 and was reportedly the Cipriani family's 20th expansion. The approximately 8,000-square-foot Miami location was designed with a distinctly nautical identity, including porthole-inspired elements intended to make the dining room feel almost yacht-like.
Unlike several restaurants on this list, Cipriani's current Miami website does not prominently identify an individual executive chef, so we would rather not assign one inaccurately.
Source: Cipriani Downtown Miami official website History: Eater - Cipriani Downtown Miami opening
3. Estiatorio Milos
Milos is quite different from many of Miami's newer high-energy restaurants.
The focus is much more clearly on the product itself.
Chef and founder Costas Spiliadis built Milos around remarkably simple preparations of high-quality Greek and Mediterranean ingredients, particularly seafood. At the Miami Beach location, Milos says Spiliadis developed relationships with local fishermen to provide fresh seafood daily.
Cuisine: Greek & Mediterranean seafood Chef: Costas Spiliadis Neighborhood: South of Fifth, Miami Beach Good to know: The fresh-fish display is central to the Milos experience.
Something you may not know: Milos didn't begin in Greece or New York. Costas Spiliadis opened the original restaurant in Montreal in 1979. That restaurant was an early adopter of both the open kitchen and the now-signature fish-market display where guests select their own seafood.
More than four decades later, that original idea remains central to the brand.
Source: Estiatorio Milos Miami Beach Chef history: Costas Spiliadis - Milos
4. Dirty French Steakhouse
Dirty French Steakhouse brings a completely different energy to Brickell.
Major Food Group took its New York Dirty French concept and combined it with the traditional American steakhouse - creating a Miami restaurant heavy on steaks, seafood, French preparations, martinis and deliberately over-the-top design.
Chef-partner Rich Torrisi has described the Miami version as essentially looking at the traditional steakhouse through the lens of Dirty French.
Cuisine: Steakhouse with French influences Culinary leadership: Major Food Group, including chef-partners Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi Neighborhood: Brickell Good to know: This is considerably more Miami steakhouse than traditional French bistro.
Something you may not know: The restaurant's excess doesn't stop at its zebra chairs, gold-leaf ceilings and leopard prints. When Dirty French opened, Miami New Times reported that its restroom stalls featured two-way mirror doors - guests can see out, while people outside cannot see in.
The design itself was created by Ken Fulk and draws inspiration from legendary nightlife spaces including El Morocco and Maxim's Paris.
Source: Resy - Inside Dirty French Steakhouse
5. Amazónico Miami
Amazónico earning fifth place is particularly impressive because it didn't even exist in Miami for the entire season.
The restaurant officially opened its first U.S. location in Brickell on September 26, 2025, after establishing locations in Madrid, London, Dubai and Monte Carlo.
Its menu draws from Latin America and the Amazon region while incorporating Asian and Mediterranean influences. Executive Chef Giancarlo Valera, originally from Lima, leads the Miami kitchen and brings more than 18 years of experience, including eight years working alongside Gastón Acurio.
Cuisine: Latin American / Amazonian with global influences Executive Chef: Giancarlo Valera Neighborhood: Brickell Opened in Miami: September 2025
Something you may not know: Amazónico Miami isn't really just one restaurant. The venue stretches across three floors, progressing from the main restaurant to a bar and lounge, rooftop and the late-night Selva concept. The Miami venue was designed to hold nearly 400 guests, with the energy intentionally increasing as guests move upward through the building.
So considering it joined the Miami dining scene partway through the 2025/2026 season, a fifth-place finish in our customer data stands out.
Source: Amazónico Miami official website Chef: South Beach Wine & Food Festival - Giancarlo Valera
6. Carbone Miami
Few Miami reservations have generated as much conversation over the past several years as Carbone.
Chef Mario Carbone's interpretation of classic Italian-American cooking includes dishes such as Veal Parmesan, Caesar alla ZZ and the restaurant's famous Spicy Rigatoni Vodka. The experience is deliberately theatrical, right down to the burgundy-tuxedoed service captains.
Cuisine: Italian-American Chef: Mario Carbone Neighborhood: South of Fifth, Miami Beach Good to know: Dress for the occasion - Carbone maintains a relatively strict dress policy.
Something you may not know: Designer Ken Fulk described the inspiration for Carbone Miami's interior in unusually specific terms: imagining Maria Callas and Frank Sinatra waking up together in a suite on Venice's Grand Canal after a night of passion. The outdoor patio takes a different direction, incorporating elements intended to evoke Havana.
That might be one of the more Miami design briefs ever written.
Source: Carbone Miami official website Design: Ken Fulk - Carbone Miami
7. Forte dei Marmi
First, a small correction we frequently see: it's Forte dei Marmi, named after the seaside town in Tuscany.
The South of Fifth restaurant focuses on Italian fine dining, organic ingredients, wild-caught seafood and a slow-food philosophy.
Its current official website credits restaurateur Andrea Reitano and Chef Fabrizio Piga with bringing that approach together.
Cuisine: Italian / seafood / slow food Chef: Fabrizio Piga Culinary leadership: Andrea Reitano Neighborhood: South of Fifth, Miami Beach
Something you may not know: The restaurant occupies a 1938 Mediterranean Revival building that was renovated by Miami architect Chad Oppenheim. Its interiors were developed with Milan-based designer Henry Timi, while landscape architect Enzo Enea created the gardens -- all intended to connect Miami Beach with the atmosphere of the Tuscan resort town from which the restaurant takes its name.
Upstairs is Sopra, a private members' club that many guests dining downstairs may never see.
Source: Forte dei Marmi official website
8. Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann
Inside Faena Hotel Miami Beach, Los Fuegos is built around something much older than almost every piece of technology used in a modern restaurant: fire.
Argentine chef Francis Mallmann is internationally known for his open-fire cooking, and Los Fuegos brings that philosophy to Miami Beach through asado, wood ovens, planchas and live-fire preparations of meat, seafood and vegetables.
Cuisine: Argentine / South American open-fire cooking Chef: Francis Mallmann Location: Faena Hotel Miami Beach Specialty: Live-fire asado
Something you may not know: Some dishes are cooked using Mallmann's dramatic Patagonian-style iron fire dome. Meat, fish, pineapples and even whole vegetables can be suspended above glowing embers and slowly roasted.
The kitchen also employs rescoldo, an ancient technique in which ingredients such as vegetables are cooked directly within hot ashes or embers.
It's about as far removed from an induction cooktop as you can get.
Source: Faena - Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann
9. Kiki on the River
If some restaurants on this list are about quiet fine dining, Kiki on the River is very much about the opposite.
Kiki combines modern Greek and Mediterranean cooking with the Miami River's party atmosphere. Dinner can gradually transform into DJs, dancing and the restaurant's now-familiar napkin-twirling celebrations.
Executive Chef Wladimir Arévalo currently oversees the culinary program. The Venezuelan-born chef previously worked at restaurants including Doya, where the restaurant earned Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition during his tenure.
Cuisine: Modern Greek & Mediterranean Executive Chef: Wladimir Arévalo Neighborhood: Miami River Atmosphere: Waterfront dining that can transition into nightlife
Something you may not know: You don't actually have to arrive at Kiki by car.
The restaurant offers dock space for boats, with advance reservation required.
That makes Kiki one of the few restaurants on this list where our chauffeurs aren't the only luxury transportation option competing for the arrival.
Source: Kiki on the River official website Chef: SOBEWFF - Wladimir Arévalo
10. CASA NEOS
Rounding out the top ten is one of the newest major additions to the Miami River: CASA NEOS.
The restaurant serves modern Mediterranean-inspired cuisine under the culinary direction of Chef Michaël Michaelidis, Riviera Dining Group's Head of Culinary, the same culinary organization behind MILA.
Cuisine: Modern Mediterranean Culinary leadership: Chef Michaël Michaelidis Neighborhood: Miami River Style: Waterfront restaurant and hospitality destination
Something you may not know: CASA NEOS is considerably larger than it appears if you've only been there for dinner.
The concept occupies roughly 30,000 square feet and has evolved into several connected hospitality experiences: the two-level restaurant, Beach Club, late-night Lounge and an exclusive members-only rooftop overlooking the Miami River.
The rooftop is described as a “jardin suspendu” - a suspended garden — designed as a quieter and more private counterpart to the nightlife downstairs.
Source: CASA NEOS official website Menu/Chef: CASA NEOS menu
What Our 2025/2026 Restaurant Trips Tell Us About Miami
Looking at the complete top ten, there is an obvious theme.
Our customers weren't necessarily choosing restaurants based on cuisine alone.
MILA combines dining with a rooftop and nightlife. Cipriani combines Italian tradition with waterfront luxury. Dirty French and Carbone turn dinner into a production. Amazónico spans several floors. Kiki and CASA NEOS use the Miami River as part of the experience.
And even restaurants with a stronger culinary focus — such as Milos, Forte dei Marmi and Los Fuegos — offer something difficult to recreate elsewhere.
For the customers using a private Miami car service or keeping a chauffeur by the hour, dinner often isn't simply dinner.
It's part of the evening.
That may also explain MILA's extraordinary lead in our data. Its combination of Miami Beach location, dinner, lounge, rooftop atmosphere and late-night energy makes it particularly compatible with the way many of our customers use an hourly chauffeur service: one vehicle and one chauffeur for the entire night, rather than simply transportation from Point A to Point B.
We'll be interested to see whether the ranking changes during the 2026/2027 season, particularly as newer restaurants such as Amazónico and CASA NEOS have a full season to compete with Miami's established favorites.
For now, however, the numbers are clear.
MILA was the restaurant our customers visited most during Miami's 2025/2026 season - and by quite some distance.
Restaurants to Watch for the 2026/2027 Season
Several notable restaurants are expected to open in Miami during the upcoming season. These are the ones we think are most likely to become popular destinations for our customers.
HONŌ
From Riviera Dining Group, the team behind MILA and CASA NEOS, HONŌ will bring a Japanese steakhouse and robata concept to Downtown Miami.
Location: E11EVEN Hotel & Residences Expected opening: Late 2026 – Spring 2027
Sant Ambroeus Miami Beach
The well-known Milanese restaurant and café brand is opening its first Miami location in South of Fifth.
Cuisine: Italian / Milanese Location: South of Fifth, Miami Beach Expected opening: November 2026
La Sponda
A new waterfront Italian and Mediterranean restaurant from Gioia Hospitality Group at Grove Isle.
Cuisine: Coastal Italian / Mediterranean Location: Coconut Grove Expected opening: September 2026
1123 Miami
Chef Tobias Dorzon's upcoming Wynwood steakhouse will combine West African flavors, Japanese techniques, wagyu and live-fire cooking.
Cuisine: West African × Asian Steakhouse Location: Wynwood Expected opening: November 23, 2026
Genghis Cohen Miami
The cult Los Angeles Chinese-American restaurant is opening its first location outside California in Miami Beach.
Cuisine: Chinese-American Location: Sunset Harbour Expected opening: Late 2026
Of these, HONŌ may be the most interesting one to watch. Riviera Dining Group already operates MILA, our customers' most-visited restaurant of the 2025/2026 season, as well as CASA NEOS, which also made our Top 10.
