The 7 Best Omakase Restaurants in Miami 2026

Eleven seats on NW 2nd Avenue in Little River, $195 prepaid, and a Michelin star: Ogawa is the counter that proved Miami omakase could stand against any American market outside New York. The depth behind it is the real story. This city now runs starred counters in Wynwood and Coral Gables, a Relais & Châteaux five-seater on Brickell Key that predates the boom by a decade, and a back-room sushiya hidden inside a South Beach hotel. One operator, Álvaro Perez Miranda, runs three of the rooms on this list, and his bet on Japanese craft in Miami has aged better than most of the city’s real estate. Seven counters, ranked, with prices and booking mechanics verified for 2026.

How Miami became an omakase city

Toyosu logistics and tasting-menu economics. Fish that lands in Tokyo’s market on Monday serves in Miami on Wednesday, and the prepaid-counter format survives this city’s seasonality better than any dining room format ever has. The result is a genre that grew from two counters to a dozen serious ones in under a decade. The Miami dining guide maps the full city, our definitive sushi guide explains the edomae vocabulary these counters work in, and the Japanese restaurants worldwide guide places the best of them in the global frame.

The seven, ranked

1. Ogawa — Little River

Masa Himeno’s eleven-seat counter at 7119 NW 2nd Avenue holds a Michelin star in the current Florida guide and runs the most Tokyo-rigorous service in the city: one seating rhythm, a $195 prepaid omakase, Ginza pacing in a 700-square-foot room. Ogawa is also, dollar for dollar, the best value in starred American omakase right now, a fact the booking calendar has fully absorbed. Tuesday through Saturday, 18:00 and not much else. Reserve the moment seats release. Not for diners who want banter, music or a second cocktail; the room is an instrument and it stays tuned.

2. Hiden — Wynwood

Behind an unmarked door at the back of a taqueria at 48 NW 25th Street, Hiden has held its Michelin star since the Florida guide debuted in 2022, the counter where Shingo Akikuni first made his Miami name before opening his own room. The omakase runs $325, the most expensive seat on this list, for a flight that leans hard on Toyosu neta and an intimacy no other Miami room matches: this is dinner for a handful of guests a night, full stop. The theater of the entrance stopped being a gimmick the moment the star arrived and never left. Book weeks out; the room’s size makes every calendar tight.

3. Shingo — Coral Gables

Shingo Akikuni opened his own counter on Aragon Avenue in 2022 after running Hiden, and the 2025 Michelin Guide keeps the star on the door at 170 Aragon Avenue. The $235 omakase is the calmer, more classical sibling of his old room: cleaner progressions, a rice program he controls completely, service warm where Hiden is hushed. Shingo gives Coral Gables its first destination Japanese room and gives this list its best balance of price, pedigree and bookability. If you have one omakase night in Miami and could not get Ogawa, this is the call. Light eaters should note the flight rewards appetite.

4. Naoe — Brickell Key

Kevin Cory has cooked one seating a night on Brickell Key since 2013, and Naoe remains the only Miami restaurant of its kind with Relais & Châteaux standing, the room the 2025 La Liste rankings placed at the top of the city. The format has not bent to fashion: a signature bento of warm and cold preparations, then soup, then a ten-to-fourteen-piece edomae progression, around $285 before sake from a list built on breweries with family ties to the chef. Dinner runs long, deliberately. This is the connoisseur’s seat on the list, the one for diners who want craft without spectacle, and it predates every other room here.

5. The Den at Azabu — South Beach

Masatsugu Kubo runs the hidden counter behind the public sushi bar at Azabu, inside the Stanton hotel at 161 Ocean Drive, and the $245 omakase made it the only South Beach hotel restaurant holding a Michelin star after the 2022 guide. The door only opens to confirmed reservations, which keeps the beach crowd out and the temperature low. The Den at Azabu is the answer when the evening has to stay on the beach but the standards cannot drop. The public-facing Azabu room out front is good; the Den is the reason to come. Book the counter specifically; a table defeats the point.

6. Hiyakawa — Wynwood

Álvaro Perez Miranda’s first Wynwood statement remains one of the most beautiful Japanese rooms in the South: a Michelin Guide-listed dining room whose seasonal omakase runs about $120, built on the same Toyosu supply lines as its starred sibling Ogawa, with pairings designed alongside the menu rather than bolted on. Hiyakawa is where this list opens up: a genuine counter experience at half the price of the top tier, and the right first omakase for a diner deciding whether the genre is theirs. The trade is a livelier room; Wynwood comes inside with you. Take the date here, save Ogawa for the anniversary.

7. Midorie — Miami Beach

Hiro Asano’s counter reopened under the Midorie name in July 2025, the rebrand of the much-loved Wabi Sabi, and runs the fastest serious omakase in the city: fourteen to sixteen pieces, $180, about ninety minutes, built on Toyosu-flown fish and a rice program that rotates vinegar blends by season. The Meridian Avenue room seats mostly solo diners, by design. Midorie is the working diner’s omakase, the one you book on a Wednesday because the calendar allows it. The temaki-bar format keeps the energy casual. Not for the slow ceremonial evening; that is Naoe’s job, and the two rooms know it.

Where not to spend the evening

Be careful with hotel sushi programs along Collins Avenue that price like Hiden and source like a food hall; the gap shows by the third piece. Treat “omakase” on a nightclub-restaurant menu as a genre name, not a promise. And check the trading name before you drive: the room you knew as Wabi Sabi now operates as Midorie, and Miami’s omakase scene renames and relocates faster than the guidebooks update.

Booking notes

Every top counter here is prepaid or deposit-backed. Ogawa releases seats in monthly blocks and sells out fastest; set a reminder for the drop. Hiden and Shingo book through Tock-style windows weeks ahead, while Naoe’s single nightly seating means the calendar is the whole negotiation. The Den requires the counter reservation specifically. Hiyakawa and Midorie are the flexible bookings of the seven and the right entry points for a first-timer deciding how deep to go. For the occasion calculus, our impress-clients guide covers when the $325 counter is the right spend and when it is showing off.

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