Miami’s popular, family-owned Motek Cafe offers a colorful menu of kosher-style Israeli Mediterranean dishes, including Jerusalem grilled cheese and malawach Yemenite pancakes. The restaurant features six different hummus options, customized majadra rice bowls, and a tempting Arayes burger on pita bread stuffed with Lebanese grilled beef. Complementing the meals are glasses of refreshing limonana and challah bread pudding. The restaurant has spacious indoor and outdoor seating and is open on the Sabbath and during most Jewish holidays.

This casual kosher restaurant pays homage to its South American heritage with its breakfast offerings, including tequenos and an arepa platter. For lunch, the restaurant takes diners on a culinary journey around the world with various dishes. Among the options are Greek pizza, crispy fish tacos, sushi ceviche, and creamy pesto gnocchi with sun-dried tomatoes, goat cheese, and toasted almonds.

In the heart of Aventura, a nondescript strip mall houses a restaurant that transports diners to Tel Aviv without needing a plane ticket. Upon sitting, diners are greeted with a complimentary spread of salatim, offering small tastes of beet, corn, and carrot salads. The menu offers a diverse selection of comfort foods that a doting safta (grandma) would serve. Favorites among Israeli regulars include hummus and falafel, Yemenite beef soup, chicken liver with onions, schnitzel, or lamb chops. Wash it all down with a lemonana, a refreshing lemon and mint slushy.

Surfside’s acclaimed kosher-friendly sushi and Nikkei-style restaurant features an array of inventive dishes. Among the standout offerings are the nitro “scallops” crafted from flounder tempura, the causa grab tower, and the nikkei tuna salad. A must-try dish is the nao ceviche ball, a traditional Corvina ceviche tempura battered with panko and deep-fried. Highlights include the tropical roll, which features tuna, salmon, kiwi, guava, and dynamite sauce topped with tuna and rococo aioli, as well as the crispy Kani roll, made with soy paper, plantains, avocado, scallions, cream cheese, Krab tempura, masago, and curry aioli. Additionally, the acevichado roll is a customer favorite, made with whitefish tempura, sweet potato, avocado, and topped with Corvina ceviche.

Surfside’s beloved barbecue spot, run by pit master Mendel Segal, features a menu filled with smoky, meaty favorites, including kosher-friendly options like beef ribs, veal brisket, burnt ends, and smoked turkey. For those seeking a traditional Shabbat meal, there is an option to order a complete meal with all the trimmings available every Friday.

In Miami’s Buena Vista neighborhood, Ostrow Brasserie offers something that is rare to find — kosher French cuisine. Led by chef Olivia Ostrow, this charming Parisian-styled restaurant serves classics like Lyonnaise salad and steak frites amid whimsical art and an Art Nouveau mural. Open for breakfast through dinner, the restaurant also features a full bar, private dining, and a dog-friendly patio.

Miami Beach’s Tasty Cafe offers decadent breakfast and lunch options, all baked on-site daily. Although meat is not served, the extensive menu provides filling dishes such as Nutella-stuffed French toast, triple-decker avocado grilled cheese, caramel pecan sticky buns, and “animal style” potatoes smothered in onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, American cheese, and house-made “yum yum” sauce, all of which are fan favorites.

Customers can enjoy more than just its famous bread loaves at this bakery, known for its devoted following. The menu is filled with breakfast and lunch options like the popular breakfast sandwich — a cheddar cheese omelet, avocado, and tomato on toasted sourdough country wheat bread — or the salmon Reuben sandwich, served hot pressed on sourdough Jewish rye bread with sauerkraut, thousand island dressing, and Swiss cheese.