There’s more than one way to make an egg sandwich. For their version, Antonio Bachour and the team spent two weeks figuring it out. “Should the egg be scrambled? Fried? What about cheese: cheddar? Goat?” says co-owner Javier Ramirez. It’s not surprising that this restaurant, known for their Instagram-perfect mirror-glazed pastries and viennoiseries, would go through multiple iterations before settling on their vision of perfection.  

Let’s throw a local contender into the ring in the chicken sandwich “battle” between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A: the chicken sandwich at this tiny restaurant in a strip mall right off the Palmetto in Miami Gardens. Before the PR frenzy, Shuckin & Jivin’s menu did feature chicken – breast, thighs, wings, bites and a po’boy – but not a sandwich like the chains offered. So founder Ernisha Randolph decided to create one.

From the longtime Miami seafood family who brings you fresh-caught fish at Garcia’s Seafood Grille & Fish Market on the Miami River and succulent fried shrimp on a bun at La Camaronera comes the resurrected Captain Jim’s Seafood Market and Restaurant. The North Miami restaurant, opened in 1996, was respected for its fresh seafood. After changes over the years, it was bought by David Garcia, who kept the same name but turned the space into a spotless market and restaurant with a tidy blue-and-white nautical motif and freshly caught seafood on the menu.

What does Italian luxury look like in the eyes of Ignazio and Maggio Cipriani, fourth-generation brothers of the famed Cipriani hospitality family? The brand-new Mr. C Coconut Grove, their sleek property perched dramatically on  sculptural stilts. “For Mr. C Coconut Grove, the aesthetic is a modern version of old-world simplicity blended with a bit of European glamour and design elements inspired by a sleek Italian yacht,” says Ignazio.

Part of the Graspa Group, these trattorias serve a variety of flat-crust pizzas in mostly traditional flavor combos (amatriciana, capricciosa, regina), plus pasta at affordable prices. They also cater via a three-wheeled Ape Piaggio imported from Italy fitted with an oven that can pop out five pies at a time. Locations in Midtown, downtown Miami, Lincoln Road, South Miami