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French restaurant at Maison Ostrow, Miami
French cuisine at Maison Ostrow, Miami
French cuisine at Maison Ostrow, Miami
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Maison Ostrow

North Bay Village, Miami

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Hashgarah

ORB, Regila

Meat Hashgarah

ORB Glatt

AmbianceElegant & Vibrant
CategoryFrench & Chef Restaurant
Wine SelectionNo
Outdoor TerrasseYes
RooftopNo
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Maison Ostrow: The Causeway Room Where Kosher Stopped Apologizing

The Wagyu steak tartare is built at the table, and that is the first thing that tells you where you are. A cart arrives, the beef comes hand cut rather than ground, and the herbs, Dijon, cornichons and shallots go in one at a time while you watch. Thirty six dollars. Behind the cart, deep green walls carry an oversized Mona Lisa blowing bubble gum, a gilded dog portrait, art deco panels that catch the light off Biscayne Bay through the terrace doors. This is North Bay Village, on a causeway most of Miami crosses without stopping. Olivia Ostrow opened Maison Ostrow here on 17 August 2025, in the room that Osteria del Teatro left behind after a 37 year run, and she has spent the time since proving a single proposition: that a kosher kitchen can cook French food without flinching.

Read the menu closely and you find quotation marks doing heavy lifting. "Parmesan cheese" on the smoked trout Caesar. "Feta cheese" espuma under the beet carpaccio. "Blue cheese" in the endive salad and again in the dates, which come wrapped in house "bacon". The Chicken Cordon Bleu, fifty six dollars, is stuffed with "bacon," "cheese" and creamy bechamel, then breaded and fried and set on pomme purée. Every one of those punctuation marks is a pareve construction built in house, because the ORB certificate for this address says all food is considered meat, and so there is no dairy in the building at all. Most kosher kitchens treat that as a subtraction. This one treats it as a commission.

About the Place

Maison Ostrow is a kosher French and Mediterranean restaurant at 1666 79th Street Causeway, Suite 102, in North Bay Village, Florida 33141, an incorporated Miami-Dade municipality of three islands in Biscayne Bay. It is certified by ORB, the Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties, whose public restaurant directory lists the venue under both its Meat and its Pas Yisroel headings and publishes a signed certificate reading GLATT MEAT, all food considered Meat, PAS-YISROEL, expiring 31 December 2026. Paris born chef and restaurateur Olivia Ostrow opened it on 17 August 2025 with chef de cuisine Christophe Bibard, in the room previously held by Osteria del Teatro. The restaurant runs 3,500 square feet with 145 indoor seats, a full bar, a private dining room, a two seat Chef's Table and a 40 seat terrace on the bay. Because the kitchen holds a meat certification, every cheese on the menu is a pareve preparation made in house.

Contact Info

Address: 1666 79th Street Causeway, Suite 102, North Bay Village, FL 33141Phone: +17868038092Website: maisonostrow.comInstagram: @maisonostrowmiami

Services

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Maison Ostrow in North Bay Village kosher certified?

Yes. Maison Ostrow is certified by ORB, the Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The certifier's public restaurant directory lists the venue at 1666 79th Street Causeway, Suite 102, under both its Meat and its Pas Yisroel headings, and publishes a signed certificate that reads GLATT MEAT, all food considered Meat, PAS-YISROEL, expiring 31 December 2026. The restaurant states the same certification on its own homepage.

Does Maison Ostrow serve any dairy?

No. The ORB certificate states that all food is considered meat, so there is no dairy anywhere in the kitchen. This is why the menu prints every cheese inside quotation marks: the parmesan on the smoked trout Caesar, the feta espuma under the beet carpaccio, the blue cheese in the endive salad and in the stuffed dates are all pareve preparations built in house, as are the bacon and the bechamel in the Chicken Cordon Bleu.

Who is the chef at Maison Ostrow?

Olivia Ostrow, the Paris born chef and restaurateur behind the restaurant. She has roughly three decades in kitchens and trained under the chef who cooked for French President Jacques Chirac. She grew up in a Paris household that held bistro culture and Shabbat together, and wanted to be a butcher before she moved into restaurants. Her chef de cuisine is Christophe Bibard, a French chef with more than twenty years in classical cooking and a finalist on the 2011 European edition of Top Chef.

What should I order on a first visit to Maison Ostrow?

Start with the Maison Ostrow butter selection, six house butters at two dollars each including harissa, saffron, za'atar and one called blue cheese, with the artisan baguette. Then the Maison Ostrow chicken and lamb paupiette at sixty five dollars, a chicken breast stuffed with lamb, prunes and eggplant and wrapped in house bacon. For a table of six or more, the Bites and Tapas Tower at seventy five dollars covers nine small plates in one order.

How much does dinner at Maison Ostrow cost?

Appetizers run fourteen to thirty eight dollars and meat mains fifty six to sixty five. The butcher section climbs further: steak frites at seventy two for a twelve ounce ribeye, the Reserve Cut Ostrow Filet at one hundred and fifteen, the veal chop Provençale at one hundred and eighty, and a three pound cote de boeuf at two hundred and forty five. An eighteen percent service charge is added to every check. Two people eating three courses with wine will not leave under two hundred dollars.

What are the opening hours at Maison Ostrow?

Lunch runs Monday to Thursday from 11:30am to 3:30pm and dinner Sunday to Thursday from 5pm to 11pm. The restaurant is closed all day Friday and reopens Saturday night at 8pm with a special menu that runs to 1am. Sunday brunch is 11:30am to 3pm, with live music from 7pm to 10pm. The bar opens at 4pm and stays open until midnight, an hour after the kitchen closes.

Which Miami area is Maison Ostrow in, and is there a terrace?

North Bay Village, an incorporated Miami-Dade municipality of three man made islands in Biscayne Bay, strung along the John F. Kennedy Causeway that everyone calls the 79th Street Causeway, between the City of Miami and Miami Beach. The restaurant runs 3,500 square feet with 145 indoor seats, a full bar, a private dining room and a two seat Chef's Table on the expo line, plus a separate 40 seat terrace looking out at the bay.

Is this connected to Ostrow Brasserie?

Same chef, different restaurant, and Ostrow Brasserie no longer operates. Olivia Ostrow opened Ostrow Brasserie in Buena Vista in 2023 as what was described as Miami's first kosher French restaurant, and closed it in May 2025. She opened Maison Ostrow three months later, on 17 August 2025, in the larger North Bay Village room that Osteria del Teatro had held for its final years after 37 years in South Beach.

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