Downtown Miami gives you two very different answers to 'restaurants near me' within a few doors of NE 3rd Avenue: ceviche cured to order at Cvi.che 105, or coffee, pasta and market provisions at D’Oro Caffe & Market. Motek adds a walk-in Mediterranean option inside the historic Seybold Building, while KUSH Brickell is the late-night choice farther south. The practical question is not simply where to eat. It is whether you need a proper seafood dinner, a quick Italian stop, shareable plates, or burgers and beer after midnight. Here is what each address does, what it costs where prices are published, and how to time the journey.
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Cvi.che 105, Downtown Miami — flash-marinated ceviche made to order
At 105 NE 3rd Avenue, Cvi.che 105 is the direct answer if your search began with seafood. This full-service Peruvian restaurant specialises in ceviche, tiraditos, sushi-influenced seafood, saltados and other contemporary Peruvian dishes. Its current menu lists ceviches made with fresh fish or catch of the day mixed with leche de tigre, while published descriptions call the preparations flash-marinated. In practical terms, the headline’s phrase 'cures fish to order' means ceviche is flash-marinated when ordered, rather than being a phrase the restaurant uses itself. The brightly lit, multi-storey exterior leads into a sleek, colourful dining room with eclectic art and a lively, polished feel.
The classic fish ceviche is $21, the seafood version is $25, El Del Barrio is $28, and leche de tigre is $6.95. Hours are Sunday noon to 10pm, Monday to Thursday 11:30am to 10pm, Friday 11:30am to 10:30pm, and Saturday noon to 10:30pm. The Downtown location accepts reservations through OpenTable and is walkable from the College/Bayside, First Street and Bayfront Park Metromover stations. For five or more people, its published happy-hour terms add an 18% service charge. Arrive before the Downtown dinner rush if a shorter wait matters.
Motek Downtown, Downtown Miami — walk-in Mediterranean plates for sharing
Motek Downtown changes the format without taking you far from Cvi.che 105. At 36 NE 1st Street, inside the historic Seybold Building, it is a Mediterranean bistro serving hummus, mezze, shawarma, schnitzel, kebabs, burgers and salads. The setting is an intimate first-floor room among Downtown’s jewellery shops rather than a freestanding street-front dining room. The menu is designed for sharing, and dishes arrive as they are ready, which makes it useful when the group cannot agree on one type of dinner. It is also the closest practical alternative here for a daytime meal with a walk-in plan rather than a seafood-led, full-service evening.
Dine-in runs Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6:30pm, with Sunday dine-in closed; takeout and delivery run daily from 10am to 10pm. Published price anchors include $13 hummus tehina, $21 crispy schnitzel, $25 chicken shish kebab and a $23 Arayes burger. Reservations are not available at this Downtown location, so smaller parties should plan to walk in. Motek lists street parking and nearby private lots. Choose it for daytime or early evening sharing plates, especially if Cvi.che 105’s ceviche is not what everyone wants.
D’Oro Caffe & Market, Downtown Miami — an all-day Italian stop a few doors away
D’Oro Caffe & Market is at 17 NE 3rd Avenue, only a few doors from Cvi.che 105, but the experience is deliberately more practical. This casual Italian café, restaurant and market serves breakfast, pasta, panini, tapas, salads, coffee, desserts, wine and gelato. Shelves of imported treats and wine sit alongside a casual indoor dining area, making it suitable for a coffee, a quick meal or a slower plate of pasta. It is the useful answer when 'restaurants near me' really means somewhere open across several parts of the day, rather than a destination dinner built around one speciality.
D’Oro is open daily from 9am to 9pm. A concrete current menu price was not exposed in the available official text, so this is the one stop in the guide where no item price is given. The restaurant says it remains open during building-façade construction, although outdoor seating has been removed almost completely; indoor dine-in, pickup and delivery continue during regular hours. With both D’Oro and Cvi.che 105 on NE 3rd Avenue, the choice is straightforward: Italian coffee, panini and market provisions for convenience, or Peruvian ceviche and a fuller seafood meal.
KUSH Brickell, Brickell — burgers, beer and food after midnight
KUSH Brickell covers the version of this search that happens late, when Downtown’s daytime cafés and dinner rooms are no longer the point. At 650 S Miami Avenue, it is a neighbourhood bar and restaurant focused on craft burgers, wings, sandwiches, seafood-leaning bar bites, cocktails and local beer. The room has a casual pub feel, with beer taps and burger-and-wing energy rather than Cvi.che 105’s polished cevicheria atmosphere. It is farther south in Brickell, so this is not a nearby substitute in walking terms, but it is the most useful option here for a filling meal with a late closing time.
KUSH is open Sunday to Thursday from 11:30am to 2am, and Friday and Saturday from 11:30am to 3am. Burgers are $18, bang-bang shrimp tacos $15, ten-piece wings $18, draft beer $9 and house-made key lime pie $11. Walk-ins are always accepted at the bar; parties of six or more must arrange reservations in advance. The Miami-Dade Local’s Menu is dine-in only, requires a Miami-Dade ID and is limited to one per day. Reach it by Metromover or a short rideshare, with street parking and nearby garages.
How to choose
Choose Cvi.che 105 when the meal is about fresh fish, leche de tigre and a proper Peruvian dinner, particularly if you want to reserve or are travelling with a larger group. Motek is the better format change: a daytime, walk-in Mediterranean bistro with shareable dishes and published entrées in the low-to-mid-$20s. D’Oro is the practical all-day option, open from breakfast through dinner and only a few doors from Cvi.che 105, though the available official menu text does not provide a price anchor. KUSH Brickell wins for late hours, burgers, wings, beer and a casual bar setting, but it trades Downtown convenience for a trip south.
For the Downtown three, use the NE 3rd Avenue and NE 1st Street grid rather than planning a separate cross-city journey. Cvi.che 105 is walkable from the College/Bayside, First Street and Bayfront Park Metromover stations; Motek lists street parking and nearby private lots; D’Oro keeps indoor service running during façade work. Cvi.che 105 is best timed before the dinner rush if you want a shorter wait. KUSH at 650 S Miami Avenue is reachable by Metromover or a short rideshare, with street parking and nearby garages. Ask Karpo in the app to set the order around your preferred dish and closing time.
One correction before you search
Older Downtown and Brickell guides still send readers to My Ceviche at 1250 S Miami Avenue, but current listings identify that location as permanently closed or vacant. Do not use it as your ceviche stop. For a current ceviche-led meal, use Cvi.che 105 at 105 NE 3rd Avenue; for another late option farther south, use KUSH Brickell at 650 S Miami Avenue instead.
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Before leaving, ask Karpo in the app to compare Cvi.che 105, Motek, D’Oro and KUSH Brickell for your preferred dish, price and arrival time. Check whether you need a reservation or a walk-in plan, then choose the Downtown address or the farther Brickell route and time your journey around the published closing hours.
