Your Miami Spice 2026 Guide

Seafood Tower at Maple and Ash

What started over two decades ago as a way to support restaurants through the slow season, with just 56 participating restaurants, has grown into a tradition the city looks forward to. This year there are over 300, including a few Michelin starred ones. We love Miami Spice. Partly because we get to sneak back into a few favorites for a little less. But mostly because every table you book is a kitchen you are keeping busy. And as former restaurant owners, we know exactly how much that means. So dine out, support your favorites, and try a few new local spots that need and deserve your love. We read through all of it. Here are a few of our favorites.

Butcher's Feast at Cote

Côte

Côte does Miami Spice the way it does everything, which is with more effort than it needs to. Every year there are dishes you cannot get any other night, and this year that means a limited edition fried chicken and a pan con minuta. The lunch menu runs $40, and if you want the full experience you add the butcher's feast as your main for $29 more. That feast normally costs $82 on its own. Book the lunch. It is the easiest table you will ever get at a Design District steakhouse this good.

Tȃm Tȃm

Tȃm Tȃm's first year doing Miami Spice, and they understood the assignment immediately. The $50 menu pulls from the dishes we already come here for, the lotus root salad and the lamb wrap among them. Fifty dollars also makes this one of the few Spice menus that still feels like the old deal. Then there is the part that seals it. Every table that orders the Spice menu gets free wings, and those are some of the best wings in Miami. Get a reservation.

Maple & Ash

This is the steakhouse's first Miami Spice, and the menu is blue fin tuna tartare, an 8oz filet, and a strawberry tres leches for $95. The same meal runs $125 any other night. The room and the service are the kind you plan a night around, so the math works even before the discount. If you're in the mood to splurge a little, we highly recommend the seafood tower upgrade and the sundae tower upgrade. Consider this the one time we tell you to spend the $95 on a Miami Spice menu, or perhaps even a bit more.

Uchi

Uchi built one of the more generous menus of the season, the kind where every course comes with a little extra. Start with the hama chili, which arrives with a side of shrimp karaage. Every entree comes with two pieces of nigiri and a salmon tamaki before you even reach the main. Then you pick that main, and the chicken katsu sando is the one we would choose. It is $65 for dinner Sunday through Thursday, and it eats like more.

Pastis

Pastis kept its Spice menu at $50, which in this economy counts as a public service. You get the escargots or the onion soup, then the burger, which is one of the best burgers you can get in Miami, or a spaghetti al limone, and a crème brûlée to finish. We love Pastis any day of the week. It is one of our go to spots. The food always delivers, the cocktails never miss, and the room is so pretty you forget you drove there through Wynwood traffic and not a cab across the West Village.

Foie Toast at Kojin 2.0

Kojin 2.0

We have been fans of Kojin since the pop up days at Hachidori, and it has only gotten better. Chef Pedro and Katherine Mederos run a kitchen where the food is always great and there is always one dish that should not work and somehow does. The welcome is the other reason we keep going back. They crack jokes, they make you feel at home, and you leave already planning the next visit. The Spice menu is one of the most generous around. Foie gras shows up on the $40 Saturday brunch, and dinner gets you a steak with two sides and no upcharge.

Joe's Stone Crab

Joe's during Miami Spice is a quiet loophole. It is not stone crab season, which means none of the chaos and none of the notorious waits, and the menu still gives you everything you want from Joe's. Stone crab bisque to start. Fried chicken for the main, one of the great sleeper orders in this city. Key lime pie to finish, the one they have been making famous for a century. All you need, and you leave very happy.

Stubborn Seed

This is the one we are most excited about. Stubborn Seed is doing Miami Spice for the first time in years, which matters because Jeremy Ford's place holds a Michelin star and rarely gives you a reason to come in for less than a tasting menu. For $65 you get three courses, and the first one alone sold us. It opens with a foie gras torchon with tomato yuzu jam and peanut miso crumble on Sullivan Street sourdough. Then the Stubborn truffle chicken with pomme purée. Then a citrus pavlova with yuzu curd and matcha meringue. A Michelin starred dinner for $65 does not come around often. Take it.