LPM

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

The Riviera on Brickell Bay

Step through the French shutters at 1300 Brickell Bay Drive and the Miami skyline recedes. In its place: marble surfaces, 20th-century art from painters of the South of France, gilt mirrors, a zinc bar, and bossa nova drifting through a room that hums with a particular kind of energy. LPM — part of the global La Petite Maison family with outposts from London to Hong Kong — brings the spirit of the Côte d'Azur to Greater Downtown Miami with conviction and considerable detail.

Food Rooted in the Mediterranean Shore

The kitchen's philosophy is precise and uncompromising: every dish should deliver a mouthful that cannot be found or reproduced elsewhere. The ingredients of the French and Ligurian Riviera lead — sun-soaked artichokes, lemons, olives, courgettes, tomatoes, the freshest seafood — sourced with painstaking care and prepared à la minute, arriving at the table the moment they are ready. No lamps, no waiting.

The à la carte menu moves from warm prawns in olive oil and yellowtail carpaccio with guacamole and citrus dressing, through lobster risotto and grilled Chilean bass with chili and lemon confit, to lamb cutlets 'Vivienne' with olive, aubergine caviar and pine nuts. Homemade rigatoni — either with tomato and chilli or with cream and morel mushrooms — anchor the pasta section with the same ease. The food is placed in the middle of the table; sharing is the point.

Wines, Cocktails and the Tomatini

LPM holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025, recognition that reflects a cellar built around discovery rather than prestige alone. Great houses are present, but the sommeliers steer toward smaller vineyards with stories to tell and, above all, toward rosés — the restaurant considers itself a world leader in the category, and the list is designed to dance with the food on the table.

The cocktail program carries the same ambition. Riviera ingredients, full sensory engagement — a smouldering herb, a scented towel, a touch of Chanel No. 5 in the air — and at the center of it all, the legendary Tomatini, celebrated on its own annual day every November 12th. A dedicated Jean Cocteau cocktail menu adds another layer of theatre.

The Room Itself

The space draws on La Belle Époque villa aesthetics: mosaics, fer forgé, a light colour palette punctuated by bold, naive art. Fresh flowers in outrageous vases, open prep counters, a centrepiece bronze sculpture. The Mediterranean French atmosphere is consistent and considered, neither theme-park nor pastiche — it is a backdrop that lets the food and the room's energy do the work together.