BARS & RESTAURANTS IN MIAMI

Miami, Florida is located between the everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east. A woman, Julia Tuttle conceived the city, after the freeze of 1894 destroyed all of Florida’s crops except those of the Miami area. The population of Miami has fluctuated greatly over the years but in the late 50s when Castro took power there was a mass exodus from Cuba. The metropolitan population now stands at 2.5 million people with Caucasian and Hispanics being nearly equally represented.

Miami's Top Bars and Restaurants

Miami hosts Florida’s professional football, basketball and baseball teams and its culture is apparent in its restaurants, bars and nightclubs. The music and cuisine is diverse and varied with influences of Cubans, Colombians, East Indians and the Caribbean. Tourists come from far and wide to enjoy the white sand beaches and to participate in a variety of watersports including swimming, sailing, windsurfing and scuba diving and snorkeling on the coral reefs.

After a day of sun and fun there is no shortage of nightlife and Miami’s bars, restaurants and nightclubs offer something for everyone. In North Miami the award winning restaurant, Neomi’s at the Trump international resort, offers contemporary American cuisine with a Latin and South American flair. The house specialty, the single malt scotch dinner has six courses including foie gras, barbecued copper salmon and smoked brisket.

The elegant Azul restaurant at the Mandarin oriental hotel features the very best in Mediterranean and Asian dinning. Specializing in fusion cooking, combining ingredients from different cuisine’s, the Azul prepares some of the most delectable dinners that will overwhelm the most discriminating palate. The grilled Colorado lamb, beef sirloin with jalepeno potatoes and the miso hamachi leave diners with the impression that it doesn’t get much better than this.

For lively nightlife South beach is where it’s at. If rock and roll is your thing there’s only one place to be in South beach. Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee created the Rok Bar and the huge glass and granite bar is backed with holographic pictures of the hottest rock groupies around. Shots are the order of the night and the Rok Bar is, possibly, the hippest nightclub in the country. The music goes all night long and what can you say, it really, ah well, rocks.

If your tastes run to a Latin beat Bongos Cuban café might be the place to stir your salsa. Owned by singer Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio, Bongos is one of the most popular nightclubs in Miami. The club has two levels and umbrella covered terraces looking out on Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. The bamboo dance floor shakes to the rhythms of hot Latin salsa music and you can dance till dawn.