The Best Restaurants in Coral Gables in 2026

Anchored by Miracle Mile and the grand Mediterranean Revival architecture that gives the neighborhood its particular sense of permanence, Coral Gables dining has long rewarded the kind of guest who knows where to go and doesn’t need to be told twice. In 2026, it also rewarded everyone else with a surprise: a third-generation sushi chef quietly claiming the city’s first Michelin star from a 14-seat counter inside a converted 1924 building. The best restaurants in Coral Gables this year span both impulses — the established and the quietly revolutionary — ahead, discover our haute guide to dining in Coral Gables.

Shingo

Coral Gables’ only Michelin-starred restaurant is also its most intimate. Chef Shingo Akikuni, a sushi chef trained in Osaka, Tokyo, and New York before earning a Michelin star at Miami’s Hiden, opened this 14-seat omakase counter in the historic La Palma building in 2023 and earned Shingo its own star the following April. The 18-course seasonal menu leans almost entirely on fish flown in from Japan, sliced against a backdrop of hinoki wood that was built, deconstructed, and reassembled on-site from Kyoto. Reservations are limited by design, and the restaurant closes Mondays and Sundays.

Daniel’s Steakhouse

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Daniel’s Steakhouse Miami is the second location for Gioia Hospitality Group’s Fort Lauderdale steakhouse, and it arrived with real demand already built in. Daniel’s Fort Lauderdale earned a Michelin Guide recommendation within six months of opening, and founder Tom Angelo has said regulars from Coral Gables and South Miami had been driving north just to eat there before this location existed. The menu leans into a full steakhouse lineup alongside a handful of Italian holdovers like caviar carbonara and grilled tuna puttanesca, backed by a refreshed interior and an elevated bar scene built around tableside martinis and a burger-forward bar menu.

Buccan

Chef Clay Conley’s flagship restaurant needs little introduction at this point. Buccan’s original location was featured in Where Palm Beach Is Actually Eating in 2026, and the Coral Gables outpost carries that same flagship energy south: a neighborhood restaurant built around bold, globally inspired small plates meant for sharing, made with the kind of ingredient-first care Conley describes as cooking the way he’d want to eat at home. The room strikes a deliberately easy balance, refined without feeling stiff, lively without tipping into loud, making it one of the more versatile bookings in Coral Gables for anything from a casual dinner to a proper celebration.

Zitz Sum

Zitz Sum has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand every year since 2022, alongside a James Beard semifinalist nod and a spot on The New York Times’ Best 50 Restaurants in America. Chef Pablo Zitzmann, working out of an unassuming office-building storefront on Alhambra Circle, built the menu as a genuinely personal mix of Japanese technique, Colombian roots, and whatever ingredient he’s currently obsessed with, delivered through bold small plates and a rotating seven-course tasting menu. It remains one of the most acclaimed restaurants in Coral Gables that still doesn’t look the part from the sidewalk.

Luca Osteria

Tucked along the pedestrian-only stretch of Giralda Plaza, Luca Osteria is Chopped champion Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli’s fine-dining love letter to his own heritage, half-Italian, half-Argentinian, and named after his son. The kitchen leans into what Rapicavoli calls “Italian flavors with Hispanic intensity,” bolder and more aggressively seasoned than a typical Italian menu, built around handmade pastas like the truffle pappardelle and short rib bolognese alongside standouts like the patate fritte. The restaurant has earned a Michelin Guide mention and a reputation, per longtime local critics, as one of the few Miami restaurants that’s stayed just as good as it was on opening night.

MIKA

Chef Michael White, the Michelin-starred chef behind New York’s Marea, made his standalone Florida debut with MIKA, a Coastal Riviera restaurant at The Plaza Coral Gables. Built in partnership with restaurateur Alex Pirez, the 8,195-square-foot space blends Italian, French, and broader Mediterranean influences across handmade pastas, crudos, fresh seafood, and prime steaks, including a 36-ounce bone-in Florentine. Despite White’s fine-dining pedigree, MIKA was deliberately built as a neighborhood restaurant rather than a special-occasion destination, one he’s described as a place to bring guests back to regularly rather than reserve for a single big night out. The name is both an Italian nickname for Michael and a nod to Pirez’s daughter.

Bouchon Bistro

Thomas Keller chose Coral Gables over Miami Beach or Downtown Miami’s flashier scenes for his third Bouchon location, and by his own account, that distinction mattered to him. Set inside the same 1924 La Palma building as Shingo, Bouchon serves the same classic French bistro menu that’s defined the brand since Yountville in 1998: steak frites, roast chicken, escargots de Bourgogne, and a raw bar stocked with fruits de mer. The space, designed by longtime Keller collaborator Adam D. Tihany, leans into the building’s Mediterranean Revival bones rather than importing a generic bistro look, and the menu stays deliberately consistent no matter which Bouchon you’re sitting in.

For more of Haute Living’s Coral Gables dining coverage, see STAND: A New Japanese Café From the Team Behind SHINGO.