Best Restaurants in Coral Gables: 20 Local Favorites

Coral Gables is one of Miami's best places to eat, a walkable grid of Spanish tapas, Italian classics, steakhouses, and specialty coffee wrapped around Miracle Mile and Giralda Plaza. This local guide rounds up the best restaurants in Coral Gables right now, whether you want a power lunch, a long dinner, or the kind of laid back breakfast that turns into an afternoon of work.

Twenty places make the list below, each with the address and what it is actually known for, followed by a breakdown of the three walkable clusters the city keeps its restaurants in: Miracle Mile, Giralda Plaza and the Salzedo Street corridor around Shops at Merrick Park.

Coral Gables restaurants by cuisine

Coral Gables fits a lot of kitchens into a few blocks. If you are searching by cuisine rather than by street, this is the short version of the twenty below.

• Italian restaurant in Coral Gables: Caffe Abbracci on Aragon Avenue, open since 1989.
• Steakhouse in Coral Gables: Christy's on Ponce de Leon Boulevard since 1978, and Perry's Steakhouse & Grille at Shops at Merrick Park.
• Sushi in Coral Gables: Sushi Maki on Ponce de Leon Boulevard.
• Mexican restaurant in Coral Gables: Talavera Cocina Mexicana on Ponce de Leon Boulevard.
• Spanish restaurant and tapas in Coral Gables: Bulla Gastrobar, the original location, on Ponce de Leon Boulevard.
• Seafood restaurants in Coral Gables: Sea Grill of Merrick Park, Mediterranean and Greek.
• Peruvian restaurant in Coral Gables: CVI.CHE 105 on Palermo Avenue, Peruvian and Nikkei.
• French restaurant in Coral Gables: Pastor at Pascal on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, French and Basque.
• Argentine restaurant in Coral Gables: Graziano's on Giralda Avenue, a wood fired parrilla.
• German and Irish pubs: Fritz and Franz Bierhaus on Merrick Way, JohnMartin's on Miracle Mile.
• Latin burgers and kebabs: Pincho on Giralda Avenue.
• Cocktail bars with a kitchen: Copper 29 on Miracle Mile, Tap 42 on Giralda Avenue.
• Breakfast, brunch and specialty coffee: GROU Coffee + Cowork on Salzedo Street, Threefold Cafe on Giralda Avenue, Cafe Demetrio on Alhambra Circle. See also the Coral Gables brunch guide.

GROU Coffee + Cowork

Start where the neighborhood starts its day. GROU is a specialty coffee shop, brunch spot, and coworking space in the Merrick Park district at 4100 Salzedo St. Come for matcha, cold brew, and a whipped honey oat latte, stay for Healthy Arepas, paninis, and acai bowls topped with banana, strawberries, shaved coconut and granola, then post up with your laptop in the cafe or book a private office. See the full menu, plan a catering order, or reserve a desk at GROU Cowork. Best for: breakfast, brunch, working lunches, and coffee.

The address is 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Coral Gables, FL 33146, four minutes on foot from Shops at Merrick Park. The kitchen leans healthy without being austere: a toasted sourdough sesame bagel with lox that the menu calls GROU's Favorite Bagel, a chia pudding that is the best-seller, vegan overnight oats, garbanzo and tuna toasts, quiche, lasagna, and a banana bread that is both gluten free and vegan. The coffee runs from a cold brew that steeps for 16 hours to a full affogato lineup, and the matcha list is long enough to have earned its own guide. GROU was named Best Coffeehouse in Miami in the 2026 awards and holds 4.8 stars from 1,090 Google reviews. Because it is a coworking space as well as a cafe, one table covers breakfast, a working lunch and a whole afternoon.

Caffe Abbracci

A Coral Gables institution on Aragon Avenue, Caffe Abbracci has served Northern Italian classics to a power crowd for decades. Order the handmade ravioli or the veal chop and settle in for a proper night out.

Nino Pernetti, who grew up in Venice, opened Abbracci at 318 Aragon Ave in 1989 and ran it as the Gables power lunch room for more than three decades. Pernetti died in 2022 and his family continues to operate the restaurant. Coral Gables renamed the 300 block of Aragon Avenue Nino Pernetti Way, which tells you how firmly the place is fixed in the city. Expect white tablecloths, career waiters and a dining room that fills with the same faces week after week.

Eating House

Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli's playful New American room on Giralda Avenue serves up Miami on a plate, from a rotating tasting menu to the cult Cap'n Crunch pancakes. It is one of the most creative kitchens in the Gables.

Giorgio Rapicavoli, a Chopped champion, started Eating House as a pop-up in 2012, ran it for nine years on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, then reopened in spring 2022 at 128 Giralda Ave, on the pedestrian block of Giralda Plaza. If you find an old listing at the Ponce address marked closed, that is the former location rather than the restaurant. The cooking is New American with a Miami accent and a sense of humor, and the menu changes often enough that regulars ask what is new before they ask for a menu.

Bulla Gastrobar

The original Bulla on Ponce de Leon Boulevard is where Coral Gables goes for Spanish tapas, croquetas, and gin tonics. Loud, social, and always busy at happy hour, which we cover in our Coral Gables happy hour guide.

This is the original Bulla, the first location of the group founded by Carlos Centurion, at 2500 Ponce de Leon Blvd. It is certified by ICEX under the Restaurants from Spain program, a Spanish government mark rather than a marketing line. The room is built for sharing, so order several plates for the middle of the table and bring people who like to talk over each other.

Talavera Cocina Mexicana

Upscale Mexican on Ponce with cherry wood grilled prime meats and a list of more than 300 tequilas and mezcales. Come for a celebration or a long weekday lunch.

Talavera sits at 2299 Ponce de Leon Blvd and takes its name from the sixteenth century Talavera pottery tradition, which shows up in the tilework around the room. The kitchen cooks over a cherry wood grill and makes its moles and huaraches by hand. With more than 300 tequilas and mezcales behind the bar, it is worth asking the bartender to build you a flight instead of ordering the one label you already know.

Graziano's

An Argentine parrilla on Giralda Avenue built around the wood fired grill. Share a parrillada of churrasco and short rib, start with empanadas, and dig into the deep Argentine wine list.

Graziano's is at 394 Giralda Ave, east of the pedestrian plaza block. The house style is carne al asador: whole cuts turned slowly over quebracho, a dense South American hardwood that burns long and clean. The family also runs Graziano's Market at 2301 Galiano St, where the same Argentine cuts, breads and wines go home with you. If you have never eaten at an Argentine parrilla, order for the table and let it arrive in waves.

Fritz and Franz Bierhaus

A Gables fixture on Merrick Way since 2002, serving Wiener schnitzel, bratwurst platters, and liter steins of German beer. As fun for a group as it is for a game day.

Fritz and Franz opened at 60 Merrick Way in 2002 and is described as the longest standing Austrian and German restaurant in South Florida. It is a beer hall in the real sense: long tables, steins, a room that gets loud, and a menu that does not apologize for portion size. Good for a birthday, a big group, or anyone who wants schnitzel without driving to Broward.

Threefold Cafe

The Australian cafe that helped put Giralda Plaza on the brunch map, known for Melbourne style flat whites, avocado toast, and ricotta hotcakes. See it again in our best lunch in Coral Gables roundup.

Threefold opened at 141 Giralda Ave in 2014, started by Nick and Teresa, who came from Melbourne. That lineage is the whole point: Melbourne style espresso, all day breakfast, and the flat white treated as a serious drink rather than a novelty. It was one of the first rooms to turn the Giralda block into a brunch destination, and it still fills on weekend mornings.

Doc B's Restaurant + Bar

An easy, all day American spot on Miracle Mile with rotisserie chicken, a famous kale crunch salad, and a big brunch. Reliable for families and groups.

Doc B's is at 301 Miracle Mile, on the Salzedo Street corner. It is a scratch kitchen inside a multi location brand, which in practice means the menu is broad without being thin: entree salads, burgers, sandwiches, Wok Out Bowls and house pizza, plus a large bar area. It is the answer when four people want four different things and nobody feels like negotiating, and the sidewalk tables are some of the easiest people watching on the Mile.

Christy's

A clubby Coral Gables steakhouse since 1978 on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, where aged prime rib arrives with the legendary Caesar salad. Old school in the best way.

Christy's has been at 3101 Ponce de Leon Blvd since 1978, in a wood paneled room that has barely changed. Two things carry the reputation: the Caesar salad the restaurant is genuinely known for, and the Baked Alaska, which arrives at the table and gets finished in front of you. For decades Christy's and Caffe Abbracci split the Coral Gables power lunch crowd between them. The restaurant closed and reopened under new ownership in early 2021, so the room is the continuous thing here rather than the family.

Pastor at Pascal

The refreshed Ponce classic, formerly Pascal's on Ponce, leans French and Basque, with a Gruyere souffle, duck confit, and now Basque octopus from chef Alberto Pastor.

Alberto Pastor is the chef owner, with more than twenty years cooking in Madrid and the Basque Country behind him. He took over the room at 2611 Ponce de Leon Blvd that Pascal Oudin ran as Pascal's on Ponce, a contemporary French restaurant, for two decades. The result reads French on one page and Spanish on the next, and it is one of the few Gables dining rooms where eating alone at the bar looks entirely normal.

CVI.CHE 105

Chef Juan Chipoco's Peruvian room on Palermo Avenue turns out bright leche de tigre ceviches and Nikkei plates in a gilded dining room. Great for a lively dinner.

Juan Chipoco opened the Coral Gables CVI.CHE 105 on December 16, 2023, the fifth in the group, at 111 Palermo Ave, Suite 108 inside The Plaza Coral Gables. The kitchen is Peruvian with a strong Nikkei side, the Japanese Peruvian cooking Lima has been refining for a century. The dining room is gold, loud and deliberately theatrical, which makes it a better pick for a group than for a quiet conversation.

Cafe Demetrio

Coral Gables' original 1997 coffeehouse on Alhambra Circle, with espresso, pastries, and a leafy patio. A quieter, old Gables counterpoint to the busy Mile.

Demetrio and Vilma Pina opened Cafe Demetrio at 300 Alhambra Cir in 1997, making it the first coffee house in Coral Gables. The building carries its own history: it holds the original 1920s premises of the city's first newspaper. The courtyard patio is the reason to come and the pace is deliberately slower than anything on Miracle Mile. It is the closest thing the Gables has to a neighborhood living room.

Sushi Maki

Sushi Maki has been serving Miami since 2000, and the room at 2334 Ponce de Leon Blvd is its single Coral Gables location. The menu runs wider than a traditional sushi bar: nigiri and sashimi, a long list of rolls, and a Japanese Thai crossover section that gives a table with mixed appetites somewhere to land.

It is built for families and for takeout, and it caters, which is why it turns up at so many Coral Gables office lunches. If you want sushi in Coral Gables without a reservation strategy, this is the straightforward answer.

Pincho

Pincho is a Miami born counter service chain doing Latin inspired burgers and kebabs, and its Coral Gables location sits at 30 Giralda Ave, on the pedestrian plaza block. The kitchen is credited with creating the Toston Burger, which swaps the bun for fried green plantains, and that one idea explains the whole menu: familiar formats, Latin ingredients, no ceremony.

Order at the counter, sit outside on the plaza, and you are done in half an hour. On a street where most rooms want you to settle in for two hours, Pincho is the fast option that does not feel like a compromise.

Copper 29

Copper 29 at 206 Miracle Mile is a craft cocktail bar first and a New American kitchen second, and it is honest about that order. The bar makes its own syrups and reaches for ingredients most of the Mile leaves alone, matcha powder and savory herbs among them, so it pays to ask the bartender what they are proud of this month.

The food is built to sit alongside the drinking: gourmet burgers, truffle mac and cheese, wings and flatbread. The room is dark, low and busy, which is either exactly what you want or exactly what you do not. For where else to drink in the neighborhood, see the Coral Gables happy hour guide.

JohnMartin's

JohnMartin's has been a Miracle Mile landmark since 1989, when John Clarke and Martin Lynch opened an Irish pub at 253 Miracle Mile. It closed in 2020 and reopened in November 2022 after a full refurbishment under Breakwater Hospitality Group, and the rebuild is the reason to go: a 43 foot bar, an indoor garden under an industrial skylight, and a whiskey list that runs past 400 bottles.

The kitchen still does the pub canon, bangers and mash and shepherd's pie, alongside burgers, steaks and seafood. If an old listing tells you it has closed, that listing is stale.

Sea Grill of Merrick Park

Sea Grill is at 4250 Salzedo St, Suite 1425, inside Shops at Merrick Park and on the same block as GROU. The cooking is Mediterranean and Greek and it is built around fish flown in fresh rather than a fixed card, so the right move is to ask what came in and let that decide dinner. The slow cooked octopus is the signature.

There is a sister location in North Miami Beach. Between this, Perry's and GROU, the Salzedo corridor is a small restaurant district of its own, which we cover in the guide to the best restaurants at Shops at Merrick Park.

Perry's Steakhouse & Grille

Perry's chose Coral Gables for its first Florida location, at 4251 Salzedo St #1325 in Shops at Merrick Park. It is a steakhouse that leans into performance: tableside presentations, a signature pork chop carved in front of you, a piano bar, and Bar 79 for people who came for the room rather than the beef.

The patio is the best argument for it, a large outdoor space with a fire element and lounge seating under the Merrick Park palms. The design nods to Coral Gables coastal heritage, including a gold barnacle installation that is more charming than it sounds.

Tap 42 Craft Kitchen & Bar

Tap 42 is at 301 Giralda Ave, east of the pedestrian plaza, and it is the Giralda room built around a craft beer program. The Florida group pairs a rotating tap list with artisan cocktails and contemporary American food, and the South Florida Business Journal voted it Best Restaurant in South Florida.

It is a reliable middle ground: more ambitious than a sports bar, less committed than a tasting menu, and large enough to absorb a group that turns up without calling first. The sidewalk seating makes it a good first stop before walking west into the plaza.

Restaurants on Miracle Mile

Miracle Mile is four blocks of Coral Way between LeJeune Road and Douglas Road. It took the name in 1955, after the reinvestment that turned George Merrick's 1920s business district into a shopping street, and it still runs on independent retailers rather than chains. It holds the densest concentration of bridal shops in South Florida, the stretch locals call Bridal Row, and the Miracle Theatre, built in 1948 and now home to Actors' Playhouse. A free city trolley runs the Mile and links it to the rest of Coral Gables, which makes this the easiest part of the city to eat through without moving your car.

Three restaurants from this list sit on the Mile: Doc B's Restaurant + Bar at 301, an all day American kitchen on the Salzedo Street corner; JohnMartin's at 253, the Irish pub with the 43 foot bar; and Copper 29 at 206, the cocktail bar with the New American kitchen.

Giralda Plaza and the Giralda Avenue restaurant row

Tenants were calling Giralda Avenue Restaurant Row long before the city rebuilt it. It used to be a two lane road with parallel parking and narrow sidewalks. Construction on the new streetscape began in 2015, to a design by Cooper, Robertson and Partners, and the block reopened in 2017 as Giralda Plaza: a curb free single surface with trees down the middle, colorful granite pavers laid in concentric circles, and movable bollards so the street can open to cars or close entirely for an event. More than 15 restaurants, cafes and bars sit along that one 600 foot block.

The distinction matters when you are navigating. Giralda Plaza is only the 100 block. From this list, Threefold Cafe at 141, Eating House at 128 and Pincho at 30 are on the pedestrian plaza. Tap 42 at 301 and Graziano's at 394 are further east on Giralda Avenue, outside the plaza, on an ordinary street with cars on it.

Restaurants around Shops at Merrick Park

The Salzedo Street corridor at the north end of Coral Gables is a cluster of its own, and after Miracle Mile it is the one people search for most. GROU Coffee + Cowork is at 4100 Salzedo St STE 5, Sea Grill at 4250 Salzedo St and Perry's Steakhouse & Grille at 4251 Salzedo St, which puts a specialty coffee shop, a Mediterranean seafood room and a steakhouse within a few minutes of each other on foot.

It makes a practical sequence for a full day: coffee and breakfast at GROU, shopping at Merrick Park, dinner at one of the other two. Because GROU is a coworking space as well as a coffee shop, the morning stop can absorb several hours of work without anyone minding, which is why it turns up in our roundup of the best coffee shops to work from in Coral Gables. For a wider day in the neighborhood, see the perfect Saturday itinerary in Coral Gables.

Frequently asked questions

What is Coral Gables known for when it comes to food?

Coral Gables is known for a dense, walkable mix of Spanish tapas, Italian and Argentine classics, steakhouses, Peruvian and Mexican kitchens, and a strong specialty coffee scene, concentrated around Miracle Mile, Giralda Plaza, and Ponce de Leon Boulevard.

Where can I eat near Shops at Merrick Park?

The mall has its own dining, from Perry's Steakhouse to Sawa and Yard House. For coffee, breakfast, or a work friendly lunch a short walk away, see our guide to the best restaurants at Shops at Merrick Park.

Planning a visit to the Gables? Start your morning at GROU Coffee + Cowork. Browse the menu, order fresh roasted beans, book a desk or private office at GROU Cowork, or see what is on at our next events.