Le Jardinier

Le Jardinier is a MICHELIN-starred French restaurant in the Miami Design District, set beside the ICA museum and built around vegetables and the seasons. Part of the same group as the city’s Robuchon atelier, it offers a lighter, greener counterpoint to classic fine dining, refined but never heavy.

The room is bright, airy and garden-like, with soft greens, natural light and a calm, polished atmosphere, a welcome contrast to the louder rooms elsewhere in the city. It is as lovely for a refined lunch between galleries as for an elegant dinner.

The cooking celebrates produce: precise, beautiful vegetable-forward dishes alongside delicate fish and meat, finished with the kind of patisserie you would expect from a French kitchen of this pedigree. The menus change with the seasons and reward an unhurried meal.

Le Jardinier suits couples and food lovers who want something elegant and lighter; it is upscale and best booked ahead, particularly at weekends. In the Design District, about fifteen to twenty minutes from the residence, it is an ideal pairing with an afternoon of art and shopping.