Steakhouses in Miami: Sixteen Rooms Across Four Cities

Seven rooms inside the City of Miami, and no two of them are the same kind of steakhouse.

Brickell has three. Fleming's is at 600 Brickell Avenue, Suite 150, a block from Brickell City Centre, with seven steak cuts on the dinner list. Dirty French Steakhouse is at 1200 Brickell Avenue, all mirrored walls and animal print, running filet mignon and a wagyu tomahawk. Baires Grill is at 1010 South Miami Avenue, an Argentine steakhouse with four sister rooms in Coral Gables, Doral, Miami Beach and Sunny Isles.

COTE is at 3900 Northeast Second Avenue in the Design District: a Korean steakhouse with a Michelin star, smokeless grills set into the tables, a dry-aging room, USDA prime dry-aged beef and a steak omakase under executive chef David Shim. The tourism board's own description is that it fuses the ritual of Korean barbecue with the polish of a classic American steakhouse, and that is exactly the genre this survey admits.

The last three go by neighborhood rather than by corridor. El Toro Loco is at 1970 Southwest Eighth Street, the Calle Ocho room in Little Havana, cooking USDA Prime over open fire with a Mediterranean turn and a butcher shop attached; the operator runs five more rooms across Miami-Dade. Fiorito is at 5555 Northeast Second Avenue, a small family-run Argentine parrilla whose ribeye and churrasco come out with chimichurri. Sunny's Steakhouse is up in Little River on Northwest Miami Court, an indoor-outdoor room built around a banyan tree.

Six rooms in a separate city, and four of them are inside a few blocks of each other at the southern tip.

Prime 112 is at 112 Ocean Drive, the South of Fifth room that dry-aged prime beef in this town more or less starts with; it belongs to the Myles group, alongside Prime Italian, Prime Fish and Big Pink. Papi Steak is round the corner at 736 First Street, created by David Einhorn and David Grutman, with velvet booths, tomahawk presentations carried through the room, and beef hand-selected and aged in the operator's own climate-controlled facilities. Fogo de Chão holds 836 First Street, a churrascaria where Brazilian-trained gaucho chefs carve fire-roasted meats at the table off a market table of salads, cured meats and imported cheeses. Smith & Wollensky is at 1 Washington Avenue in South Pointe Park, recently renovated, working USDA Prime dry-aged beef with a second-story Overlook Deck over the bay.

Two more sit up Collins Avenue. Los Fuegos is at 3201 Collins inside the Faena, Francis Mallmann's Argentine room, with an open-fire kitchen doing asado and wood-fired meats among leopard-print booths and red cushions. STK South Beach is at 2305 Collins inside the 1 Hotel, a steakhouse run as a lounge, with New York strip and wagyu on the list.

Three rooms in two more municipalities, twenty miles apart.

Coral Gables has the longest-running address on the page. Christy's is at 3101 Ponce de Leon Boulevard and has been trading since 1978, according to the restaurant's own history, with filet mignon at six, eight and ten ounces and small dining rooms hung with artwork. Daniel's Miami is at 1500 San Ignacio Avenue, sister to the Michelin-recommended Daniel's in Fort Lauderdale, running grilled prime cuts with a separate bar room beside the dining room.

Aventura has one: Bourbon Steak, at 19999 West Country Club Drive. It is Michael Mina's Florida steakhouse, with mirrored glass and gilded finishes, Japanese A5 and American wagyu cooked over wood, and a wine program running past eight hundred and fifty selections. Mina's other Bourbon Steak on this site's steakhouse pages is in Georgetown, Washington, and the two rooms are separate places on separate guides.