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4 Best Places for Grilled Octopus in Miami

Where to find the best grilled octopus in Miami — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.8★. Spanning mediterranean and greek kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for grilled octopus in Miami are Meze Miami | Mediterranean Restaurant, Kalypso Beach Miami, AVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove, and more. Start with Meze Miami | Mediterranean Restaurant if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Carlos Mendez•4 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Meze Miami | Mediterranean RestaurantKalypso Beach MiamiAVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove
4 Best Places for Grilled Octopus in Miami
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Top picks at a glance

#1Meze Miami | Mediterranean RestaurantMediterranean • Miami • $$$$#2Kalypso Beach MiamiMediterranean • North Miami • value#3AVA MediterrAegean Coconut GroveGreek • Miami • $$$$

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for grilled octopus in Miami. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.

Quick picks

Meze Miami | Mediterranean Restaurant
Mediterranean • Miami
Meze Miami plants its flag at the intersection of Greek and Turkish culinary tradition — not the watered-down Mediterranean shorthand that plagues South Florida menus, but the real thing: a bistro…
Kalypso Beach Miami
Mediterranean • North Miami
Kalypso Beach sits poolside at the MB Hotel on Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach — a stretch of Miami Beach that's quieter than South Beach's circus but still unmistakably on the water — and the concept…
AVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove
Greek • Miami
AVA MediterrAegean has positioned itself as Coconut Grove's most considered argument for modern Greek cooking — a garden-leaning room with a Mediterranean aesthetic that the Grove crowd has quietly…
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. Meze Miami | Mediterranean RestaurantView →
  2. 2. Kalypso Beach MiamiView →
  3. 3. AVA MediterrAegean Coconut GroveView →
  4. 4. Monty's Raw BarView →

How the restaurants compare

Meze Miami | Mediterranean Restaurant
Miami • Mediterranean
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
date night
Mood
Special occasion
Kalypso Beach Miami
North Miami • Mediterranean
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
North Miami
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for AVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove
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AVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove
Miami • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
brunch
Mood
Special occasion
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Monty's Raw Bar
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Monty's Raw Bar
Coconut Grove • Seafood
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
dinner
Mood
Coconut Grove

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

4 ranked picks

Meze Miami | Mediterranean Restaurant — Meze Miami plants its flag at the intersection of Greek and Turkish culinary tradition — not the watered-down Mediterranean shorthand that plagues South Florida menus, but the real thing: a bistro concept rooted in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean flavors, with a room designed to feel like a cultural immersion rather than a theme. The interior is ornate and warm, every detail evoking authentic Turkish sensibility, and the owner's reputation for hospitality — genuinely making guests feel like honored visitors in a personal home — shapes the entire experience. This is a place where the room and the host matter as much as the plate, which makes it worth understanding before you book. The menu centers on the meze tradition, which here means a spread-and-share philosophy rather than a token appetizer list. The Mezze Sampler anchors the table: hummus, babaganush, calamari, sucuk sausage, Greek salad, falafels, and spinach pies arriving together as a map of the kitchen's range. Beyond the spread, diners consistently point to the grilled octopus and the lamb shank as the dishes that define what this kitchen is actually doing — the octopus a nod to coastal Aegean cooking, the lamb shank the kind of slow-cooked, bone-on preparation that anchors Ottoman-influenced menus across both traditions. Chicken kebobs and sucuk sausage round out the protein options for those less committed to the seafood side. Inside and outside seating means the experience can shift depending on Miami's weather and your mood for the evening. The practical move here is to commit to the table-share format rather than ordering individually — the meze concept rewards groups who let the sampler establish the meal before moving to the grilled octopus or lamb shank as a centerpiece. Outside seating is worth requesting when the temperature cooperates. Book ahead for weekend evenings; the owner's personal warmth and the room's character draw repeat visitors who understand that the experience is built around lingering, not turning tables. View restaurant →
Kalypso Beach Miami — Kalypso Beach sits poolside at the MB Hotel on Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach — a stretch of Miami Beach that's quieter than South Beach's circus but still unmistakably on the water — and the concept is straightforward in the best possible way: Greek-inflected coastal cooking, an owner named Achilles who reportedly works the room like he means it, and a setting that earns its keep as one of the few dining spots on this stretch where you're actually eating beside a pool with a real beach view. The price point is low, which makes the whole package feel like a minor miracle by Miami Beach standards. This isn't a scene restaurant pretending to have food — it's a hospitality-first place where the room does real work and the kitchen backs it up. The menu leans Greek Mediterranean with enough range to keep things interesting. The branzino is the dish diners consistently single out — reviewers describe it as spectacular, and it fits the setting: a whole Mediterranean sea bass, clean and coastal, the kind of anchor protein that tells you what a kitchen actually cares about. The spanakopita plays the classics honestly — spinach, feta, phyllo — and the Mykonian meatballs, made from a lamb-and-beef blend, carry the kind of specificity that suggests the kitchen has a point of view rather than just a broad menu. Beyond those signatures, the baked feta and grilled octopus come up repeatedly in diner accounts, and grouper and chips rounds out a roster that stays in its lane without being boring. The move here is the poolside table at golden hour — the setting is the whole point, and sitting inside misses it entirely. Given that owner Achilles is known for personalizing the experience, going in with a question about the kitchen's current strengths is apparently not wasted effort. Book ahead for weekends; a place with this combination of price, setting, and Greek-leaning cooking doesn't stay quietly available for long. View restaurant →
AVA MediterrAegean Coconut Grove — AVA MediterrAegean has positioned itself as Coconut Grove's most considered argument for modern Greek cooking — a garden-leaning room with a Mediterranean aesthetic that the Grove crowd has quietly adopted as a go-to for occasions that deserve more than a reservation made out of habit. The space is reported to be handsome and unhurried, the kind of room where the gap between courses feels intentional rather than slow, and where a weekend evening holds its shape well into the night. It reads, by every account, as a place better suited to two people with something to talk about than to a party trying to be louder than the room. The menu centers on the bright, herb-forward register that defines Aegean cooking at its most honest. The Aegean spreads are a consistent starting point — the sort of shared-table ritual that sets the pacing for everything that follows. The grilled octopus is among the dishes diners and local critics most reliably return to, known for the kitchen's commitment to the wood-fire tradition rather than the kind of octopus that arrives as an afterthought. The whole grilled fish is reportedly the anchor of the menu, prepared with the restraint that whole-fish cooking requires and rarely gets. What distinguishes AVA further is a wine list that leans into Greek bottles with apparent conviction — not a token gesture, but a curated selection designed to move alongside the food rather than around it. Reserve for a weekend evening and ask specifically for the garden-side seating, which is where the room earns its atmosphere. Begin with the spreads to share, let the whole grilled fish be the centerpiece, and ask the staff to guide a Greek-wine pairing — the list reportedly rewards that conversation. View restaurant →

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Monty's Raw Bar — Coconut Grove has always known it's prettier than it is practical — the banyan roots, the bay light, the unhurried tempo of a neighborhood that never quite decided whether it wanted to be bohemian or bougie. Monty's Raw Bar resolves that tension by choosing neither. It plants itself at the waterfront and insists on ease. The space lives more in open air than under a ceiling, and that's the point — the water does the heavy lifting, the prices stay honest for Miami, and the whole arrangement is unapologetically built for the kind of evening where the check arrives slower than the sunset. This is a place for people who want a real occasion without the theater of one. The menu centers on seafood that earns its place in this setting. The Seafood Tower is reportedly the move that sets the tone — cold, architectural, a little theatrical in the right way, the kind of centerpiece diners say makes everyone at adjacent tables reconsider their order. The Conch Fritters are consistently described as properly Caribbean in their logic, the kind of thing Miami should do better than it usually does. The Grilled Octopus has a reputation built on patience — the kitchen is known for treating fire as a technique rather than a shortcut. The Seafood Rice Paella reads, by all accounts, as the long-game order, the dish that rewards a slower pace and a second glass of whatever you're drinking. The Ahi Tuna Tacos are a lighter opening move if you're not ready to commit to the Tower. Sit as close to the water as they'll put you — the interior reportedly loses the plot. The late side of golden hour is when the bay light flatters the room most, and a weeknight arrival around 7 keeps the pacing where it should be. The practical line: let the paella anchor the table, and give the evening room to breathe. View restaurant →

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