This North Miami Beach restaurant’s Miami Spice lunch offerings feature influences from around the world and seems to blend them together seamlessly. The grilled avocado is garnished with shallot mousse, cotija cheese, and tart finger lime “pearls.” Entrées include a Wagyu burger with all sorts of pork toppings, as well as a lobster Cobb salad. For dessert, diners can enjoy a creamsicle sundae with pop rocks or a banana split tart.

Makoto is among the best Japanese restaurants in Miami, not only dishing up perfectly executed Japanese-style sushi and sashimi, but also novel interpretations of traditional cuisine. Its Miami Spice lunch menu, offered Monday through Friday, gives diners an ideal opportunity to sample the chef Makoto Okuwa’s culinary imagination, as well as his skills with the sushi knife. To start is the popular crispy rice topped with spicy tuna features as an appetizer. Sushi fans can order the mini chirashi as an entrée, which includes tuna, salmon, whitefish, and shrimp. Those who prefer land animals can enjoy the chef’s fried chicken with a kaffir lime dry spice. The caramel miso chawanmushi is both a sweet take on the traditional Japanese steamed custard, as well as a variation on the ever popular salted caramel desserts.

Miami arguably has the best Peruvian food in the United States with many restaurants proving that this South American cuisine can be elevated to gourmet levels. Pisco y Nazca is perfect example of the Peruvian fine dining that has become Miami’s trademark. The Doral location’s Miami Spice lunch menu lets diners sample upgraded interpretations of Peruvian classics like grilled beef hearts, lamb stewed in cilantro sauce, and a rice pudding cheese cake with purple corn ice cream. As an added bonus, the lunch menu is available all week long.

In a departure from most Miami Spice participants, this Miami Beach Italian restaurant offers its lunch menu exclusively on weekends. The menu features a mix of straightforward Italian classics and more creative preparations. Appetizers include beef carpaccio and seared provolone with sautéed broccoli rabe. La Moderna’s entrées feature homemade fettuccine dressed with porcini and black truffle, as well as ricotta gnocchi with Bolognese sauce. The buffalo mozzarella cheesecake is perhaps one of the most creative uses of this cheese in Miami.

Chef Daniel Serfer, famously of Blue Collar, brings the same classic comfort and vintage-y aesthetic to seafood at Mignonette. What makes Mignonette’s Miami Spice lunch menu appealing is its selection of throwback seafood dishes that are casual but offer just the right bit of indulgent luxury. Case in point: an appetizer of snow crab claws with a simple cocktail sauce or a riff on retro Crab Louie salad with green goddess dressing. Desserts include a soul-warming butterscotch bread pudding or chocolate cake served with milk.

With the popularity of Peruvian cuisine in the Magic City, it was only a matter of time before celebrated chef, Gastón Acurio, brought his Lima cevichería, La Mar, to Brickell’s Mandarin Oriental hotel. For Miami Spice, chef Diego Oka offers a selection of innovative Peruvian dishes at lunch from Monday through Saturday. First courses include Italian-Peruvian scallop ceviche, while veal cheeks in a purple corn infusion feature as an entrée. For dessert, Oka offers a Peruvian summertime favorite made with a fruit that tastes like butterscotch.

Miami culinary icon, Michael Schwartz’s, new Italian eatery located in the SLS Brickell features its Miami Spice lunch menu every day of the week, allowing for some weekend indulgence at a bargain. True to form, Schwartz promises to change up the menu based on seasonal availability of ingredients, but expect to find simple creations that embody Italy’s minimalist approach to cuisine. A lunch here can begin spiraled Romanesco broccoli with marcona almonds and parsley sauce, progress to homemade rotini with pesto, and finish with a Bing cherry semifreddo.

Located inside Brickell’s Conrad Hotel, this restaurant has breathtaking views of Miami’s skyline. The eclectic array of dishes on its Miami Spice Menu combines diverse cultural elements with modern culinary techniques. A first course can feature flavors from North Africa while entrees take diners on a gastronomic journey through Southeast Asia by way of Spain and Italy. Desserts featuring tropical fruit bring the meal back to Miami. Lunch is available Monday through Friday.

Available Monday through Friday, the Miami Spice lunch menu at this longstanding Coconut Grove brasserie features solid French classics with an ambiance that is decidedly European. The venue has long been a gathering place for Miami’s expat community to enjoy leisurely meals over good wine and equally good food. During August and September, that food can include homemade Lyonnais oxtail pâté or roast chicken with black truffle butter. Desserts include warm tarte tatin, a classic French caramelized apple tart.

This Miami mainstay may not be on the culinary cutting edge, but its solid, traditional Italian fare has kept it in business for several decades – a veritable eternity in Miami. Lunch is offered Monday through Friday, as well as Sunday. Expect a few well-executed riffs on the classics, like an appetizer of caprese salad with prosciutto or cannoli for dessert. Standout offerings include pan fried soft shell crab and duck cannelloni.