{"id":77878,"date":"2025-12-10T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77878\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:44:13","slug":"miami-chophouse-named-the-best-new-restaurant-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77878\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Chophouse Named the Best New Restaurant in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiami chophouse Sunny’s Steakhouse has been named the best new restaurant in Florida and one of the best in the U.S. by Esquire in 2025.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Photo by Jeanne Canto<\/p>\n

Even though this Miami steakhouse opened in October of 2024, it\u2019s still getting so much buzz that it might as well have opened in 2025. Sunny\u2019s Steakhouse has yet again won another award<\/a>, and this time it is a big one. Esquire has named the Little River steakhouse one of the Best New Restaurants in America for 2025<\/a>, adding another national spotlight to a list that keeps getting longer.<\/p>\n

Esquire framed Sunny\u2019s as a restaurant where the courtyard and dining room read as one space. They wrote that Sunny\u2019s \u201cis a party\u201d with \u201cimpeccable\u201d vibes, describing the sound of the room as \u201cthe oceanic murmur of folks enjoying themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The write-up highlighted items like octopus ceviche with grapefruit, cucumber, and peanuts, small kouign-amann ice cream sandwiches, and a hanger steak cooked until charred and served with salsa verde. Esquire added that the food is \u201cso good that you make that face between disbelief and disgust that somehow conveys ecstasy,\u201d and noted that dishes \u201csimultaneously express maximalism and delicacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"steakThe dry-aged ribeye at Sunny\u2019s is perfection.<\/p>\n

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A Long List of Wins<\/p>\n

Esquire is the latest in a string of national honors for Sunny\u2019s. Earlier this year, the restaurant was featured on Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler<\/a>\u2019s 2025 Hot List<\/a>, a list of new restaurants around the world. Food & Wine placed Sunny\u2019s at number thirteen<\/a> on its 15 Best U.S. Restaurants List of 2025. <\/p>\n

The Michelin Guide added the restaurant to its roster of recommended Miami spots this spring. Sunny\u2019s also landed in the New York Times\u2019 2025 Restaurant List as the only Florida restaurant selected.<\/p>\n

\"\"New Miami restaurant Sunny\u2019s Steakhouse in Little River is the only restaurant to make it in New York Times\u2018 2025 best restaurants in America list.<\/p>\n

How Sunny\u2019s Reached This Point<\/p>\n

Sunny\u2019s started as a pandemic project in a Little River parking lot under the name Sunny\u2019s Someday Steakhouse. The courtyard under the banyan tree became the defining feature and carried over to the permanent location, which opened in October 2024<\/a>. Thompson and Hynes preserved the outdoor setting and added a dining room featuring Murano glass fixtures, a U-shaped bar, and plastered walls that reference the building\u2019s industrial heritage.<\/p>\n

Executive chef Aaron Brooks joined to lead a menu that combines steakhouse plates with pasta and seafood. Highlights include the corn and blue crab agnolotti, spicy rigatoni with pork sugo, oysters with pineapple hot sauce, razor clams with mango criolla, and a range of wood-fired steaks. The bar offers a section of eccentric martinis and house cocktails.<\/p>\n

The onslaught of attention from national publications continues to build on the momentum for the steakhouse that began with a pandemic pop-up. With the latest recognition from Esquire, Sunny\u2019s adds another major award to a stretch that shows no sign of slowing. <\/p>\n

Sunny\u2019s Steakhouse. 7357 NW Miami Ct., Miami; sunnysmia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami chophouse Sunny’s Steakhouse has been named the best new restaurant in Florida and one of the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2907,225,227,226,2908],"class_list":{"0":"post-77878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-awards-accolades","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news","12":"tag-national-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}