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Where to eat in Miami Gardens, FL
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A few places to eat in Miami Gardens
- Quickie's Burgers, Wings & Seafood Burger · under 0.1 miles
18405 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens - Sundays Eatery Soul Food · 0.1 miles
18367 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens - Kay's Island Grill Caribbean · 0.1 miles
18587 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens - Chop Suey Chinese · 0.2 miles
18053 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens - Hammond's Bakery Bakery · 0.4 miles
17847 NW 27th Ave, Opa Locka
The closest few by distance from central Miami Gardens, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Miami Gardens.
The food scene in Miami Gardens
Open listings put 102 places to eat within 2 miles of central Miami Gardens, 29 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: seafood (11), Chinese (7) and pizza (7). 15 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Miami Gardens is Jamaican, soul food and Caribbean — types that are listed here at 14 to 22 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Seafood 11 Chinese 7 Pizza 7 Chicken 5 Bakery 5 Caribbean 4 Burgers 3 Soul food 3 Sandwiches 3 Jamaican 3
The food in Miami Gardens
Miami Gardens has more than enough places to eat — the trouble is choosing between them without spending longer deciding than eating.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Miami Gardens and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Miami Gardens
Miami Gardens has a population of about 111,378. A city this size has real range, and range is what makes the decision slow. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Miami Gardens, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How many places to eat are there in Miami Gardens?
Miami Gardens sits in Miami-Dade County, where the Census counts 2,439 full-service restaurants, 1,848 limited-service places, 596 cafés and snack bars and 145 bars — 5,028 places to eat or drink in all. Miami Gardens makes up about 4% of the county's population.
That works out at 18.7 per 10,000 residents, which is about level with the national median of 19.4 — a normal amount of choice, and a normal amount of indecision. Unusually, sit-down restaurants outnumber counter-service ones. Nationally it runs close to even and most places tilt the other way, so this is a town that eats at tables.
Those county figures also cover Miami, Hialeah, Miami Beach, Homestead, North Miami, Doral, Coral Gables, Cutler Bay and 2 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Miami Gardens.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Miami Gardens
- Miramar, FL — about 5 miles away
- North Miami, FL — about 5 miles away
- North Miami Beach, FL — about 5 miles away
- Pembroke Pines, FL — about 6 miles away
- Hialeah, FL — about 6 miles away
- Hallandale Beach, FL — about 7 miles away
Campuses in and near Miami Gardens
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- St. Thomas University
- Barry University
- Nova Southeastern University
- Miami Dade College
- Broward College
- Florida International University
- University of Miami
- Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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