Florida Eats: Cuban, seafood & more for iPhone and iPad

Florida restaurants, cafecito to stone crab claws

Want a colada from a walk-up ventanita, stone crab claws while the season's open, a grouper sandwich on the dock or an oyster bar on the Panhandle? Florida Eats starts with lists we checked place by place, adds the MICHELIN Guide and James Beard honorees and the state's own inspection records, and maps 52,573 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in 596 Florida towns.

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  • 252hand-checked places
  • 217MICHELIN & James Beard
  • 48,584with DBPR inspection results
  • 52,573restaurants

Built around how Florida eats

Star ratings won't tell you which window pours the colada, or whether the claws are in yet. Florida Eats is organized the way people here eat: a Cuban sandwich and a cafecito, stone crab claws from October 15 to May 1, a grouper sandwich, key lime pie, an oyster bar, an Old Florida fish camp and the Haitian, Venezuelan, Colombian and Puerto Rican kitchens beyond Cuban. Each place on those lists was checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. Where DBPR has inspected a place, you see its latest result in DBPR's own words, never a grade from us, and Apple Maps' live card supplies ratings, hours and photos.

How it works

  1. Start with a craving.

    Cuban & Cafecito, Stone Crabs, Grouper & Seafood Shacks, Keys Classics, Oyster Bars, Fish Camps, Latin & Caribbean, MICHELIN & James Beard, Oldest Places or Inspections. Or type a name, a town, a street or a dish to search the 52,573 we list.

  2. Find the closest one.

    Put the nearest first, narrow it to one town or one kind of food, or pan the map from Pensacola to Key West.

  3. Head out.

    Check today's hours and photos on Apple Maps' card, call ahead, get directions, or save the place for the next beach weekend.

Inside the app

  • The Florida Eats home screen: a search box and guide cards for Cuban & Cafecito, Stone Crabs, Grouper & Seafood Shacks and Keys Classics, each with its count of places.

    A guide for each Florida craving.

  • The hand-checked Cuban sandwich and cafecito list in Florida Eats, nearest first, with each place's town, kind and distance.

    Cuban sandwiches and coffee windows nearest you.

  • A place in Florida Eats: its address, honors and guide tags, a button for Apple Maps' ratings, hours and photos, Directions, Call and Website buttons, a small map and the hand-checked notes on the menu.

    Each place, with DBPR's own inspection results further down.

  • The Florida Eats map around Miami, with pins and numbered clusters for hand-checked places and filter buttons for Cuban, seafood and honors.

    The map, by guide.

  • The MICHELIN and James Beard list in Florida Eats.

    MICHELIN Guide and James Beard honorees.

Florida food guides

Each of the app's lists has its own page here, free to read.

56

Cuban sandwiches & cafecito

56 hand-checked places, from Calle Ocho to Ybor City.

27

Stone crabs

27 hand-checked places, in season Oct 15 – May 1.

52

Grouper & seafood shacks

52 hand-checked places on the docks and beaches.

32

Keys classics

32 hand-checked places for key lime pie and conch.

68

Oyster bars

68 hand-checked places, raw, steamed and baked.

41

Fish camps & smoked fish

41 hand-checked places on rivers, lakes and the coast.

35

Latin & Caribbean

35 hand-checked places: Haitian, Venezuelan, Colombian and more.

Florida's oldest restaurants

17 places open at the same address since 1960 or earlier.

MICHELIN & James Beard

217 honored Florida restaurants.

Restaurant inspections, explained

DBPR's three result groups and the latest results for 48,584 places, records through September 30, 2026.

Cuban food, seafood and more by city

From Pensacola to Key West, the towns with enough hand-checked or honored places for a page of their own. The cities and towns index sums up what's on each.

Free, with no catch

The app costs nothing, shows no ads and sells nothing inside, and there's no account to make. The lists ship inside the app, so they open right away and keep working when the signal drops at the marina or out on the causeway.

What stays on your phone

Florida Eats collects nothing about you: no sign-in, no analytics, no ads. Location, if you turn it on, only puts the nearest places first, and your saved places are kept on the phone or iPad. The website has no cookies and no trackers. The privacy policy has the details.

Questions

Is Florida Eats free?

Completely: no price, no ads, no in-app purchases and no account to create. It's an iPhone and iPad app on its way to the App Store, with no Android version yet; until it's out, the web search here works in any browser.

Where do the lists come from?

Two kinds of source. The Cuban, stone crab, grouper, Keys, oyster bar, fish camp, Latin and oldest-places lists are our own research from fall 2026, with a 2025 or 2026 source behind each place: its website or menu, a dated local news story or an official tourism listing. The wider directory of 52,573 restaurants starts from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation's current food service licenses (48,846 places), adds Overture Maps' open place data, and puts each place on the map with Overture's address points or the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder.

Where can I get a Cuban sandwich in Miami or Tampa?

Our Cuban sandwich and cafecito list has 56 hand-checked places: 23 in Miami-Dade County, 9 in Hillsborough County (Tampa) and the rest in 16 other towns. In the web search, the Cuban & Cafecito list puts the nearest first once you share your location.

When is stone crab season?

From October 15 to May 1; the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sets the dates. Outside those months most places on our stone crab list carry on without the claws, a few close for part of the year, and each place's season note says which.

How do I check a Florida restaurant's inspection?

Look the place up here or in the app. Its page shows DBPR's result group for the latest visit (Met Inspection Standards, Follow-Up Inspection Required or Facility Temporarily Closed), DBPR's disposition and the date, and DBPR's violation counts, with records through September 30, 2026. Florida doesn't grade restaurants (in DBPR's words, “establishments are not graded or rated”), and we add no grade of our own. For the inspector's full report, search the place's license number in DBPR's own lookup.

Does it show ratings and reviews?

Not from us. Tapping a place opens Apple Maps' own card inside the app, with Apple's current ratings, hours, photos and directions. None of our lists is sorted by anyone's rating.

Does it need my location?

No. Location only matters for putting the nearest places first. If you share it, it stays on your iPhone or iPad and never reaches us, and the app works fine without it. On this website, Near me reads your location inside your browser and nowhere else.

A place has closed, or something's wrong. How do I tell you?

Write to nick@eatsranked.com with the place's name, its town and what changed. Corrections ship with the next data update.

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