Four nights
in Miami

MIA · Terminal DAirport

AA 369, arrives 4:21pm. Bags, then about 25 minutes home in normal traffic. Nothing is scheduled before 8 — that is deliberate. Shower, unpack, sit down for ten minutes. You have four nights; you do not need to win the first hour of the first one.

BunburyA&E Districtbooked · 8pm

Argentine, dinner and a real wine list. 55 NE 14th St, in the Arts & Entertainment District — the pocket just north of Downtown, south of Wynwood. Open Sat 10:30am–11:30pm. Bold Malbecs against Argentine steak, duck confit, grandma’s recipes and eight kinds of empanada; on Miami Spice at $50 for three courses if the table wants it. Named after the imaginary friend Oscar Wilde’s characters invent to get out of things. Short walk to Kaona after.

Confirmed — Sat 22 Aug, 8:00pm, three of us. Which settles the 6pm question: a 4:21pm landing does not leave room for it once you count bags, the drive and a shower, and the room is yours until 11:30 if the table wants to sit.

Kaona RoomA&E Districtbooked · 10pm

Tiki speakeasy hidden behind The Leinster Irish Pub — the door is deliberately unmarked and you are expected to find it yourself. 1600 NE 1st Ave, same neighbourhood as Bunbury, five minutes on foot. Fri–Sat until 2am, closed Sun, Mon and Tue, so tonight is the only night it is open all trip. Booked: 10:00pm. Two hours at Bunbury, then the walk over. Space is five blocks south of here when you are done.

LIVMid-Beachthe pickJared’s in

Loud Luxury. Fontainebleau, 4441 Collins Ave. Doors 11:30pm. LIV runs Thu–Sun only, so it is tonight or Sunday and nothing after — and Loud Luxury is the better of the two bookings. Biggest room in the city, dress properly, and go in knowing it is a spectacle rather than a music night.

Club SpacePark Westbest booking

Loco Dice b2b Seth Troxler on the Terrace. 34 NE 11th St, doors 11pm, from $30, runs to sunrise. This is the strongest single booking of the entire week and it is not competing with LIV — it is the second half of the same night. Arriving at 2am is not late here, it is correct.

Gun rangeWynwood edgeJared’s in

Venue still being locked. Photo ID required wherever we end up; every option rents firearms and is open Sunday.

Michael confirms the venue Sunday morning. Shortlist: Lock & Load, 2545 N Miami Ave — Sun 11am–6pm, everything supplied, closest, best if you have not done it before. Florida Gun Center, Hialeah — Sun 10–6. Warrior, Doral — Sun 10–6. Stone Hart’s, Kendall — Sun 10–6.

Sip & PickleWynwoodthe pickleball

Five pickleball courts dropped into the middle of an open-air market: murals, food vendors, cocktail bars, a DJ, 75,000 square feet of it. 2250 NW 2nd Ave — their own site also lists 318 NW 23rd St, same complex, different gate. $40 an hour per court, up to four players, booked at sipandpickle.com; walk-ups get on if a court is free. Sunday from noon.

The Marketplace only publishes Fri/Sat/Sun hours, and Sunday is firmly one of them. Courts get taken over by ticketed theme nights sometimes — call (305) 461-2700 or just book the hour online.

Oasis WynwoodWynwoodthe containers

This is the container place — and it is not the same address as the pickleball, which is the one correction worth having. Oasis is 2335 N Miami Ave: dining built into stacked shipping containers, a container Tower Bar, dumplings, pizza, tacos, a courtyard stage. The courts are at the Marketplace, four hundred metres west. Five minutes on foot between them, so you get both in one afternoon and never move the car.

Oasis publishes no hours anywhere, including on its own site. It is 400 metres from where you already are, so it costs nothing to walk over and look.

SottoVoceEdgewaterthe wine speakeasy

Two corrections, both useful. It is SottoVoce, one word, and it is not in Wynwood — 2830 NE 2nd Ave, three blocks east, on the Edgewater/Midtown line, down the alley behind Chimba. Follow the red light. Italian aperitivo wine garden: outdoor, strung with lights, a curated Italian list and charcuterie built for sharing. Closed Mondays, so tonight and Tuesday are the only shots.

Resy has the whole evening open — fifteen-minute slots from 4:00 to 10:00pm for three, outdoor garden. Walk-ins are welcome too, seating is just limited. Ten minutes from here to the marina, so leaving at 7:10 makes the 7:30 sailing comfortably.

Prosecco Cruise · Regal MarinaMiami RiverJared’s in

Miami River. 2215 NW 14th St. 1h45m, unlimited prosecco, 21+. Take the 7:30 sailing, not the 5:30. Sunset on the 23rd is 7:50pm, so it lands about twenty minutes in. The 5:30 boat is back at the dock before dark.

Not booked yet. Sunday 7:30pm, headcount TBC.

LIV · Boston RicheyMid-Beach

Fontainebleau again, 4441 Collins Ave. Last night LIV is open on this trip. Skip it without regret if Saturday already covered it.

The Taco StandSouth Beach

1211 Lincoln Rd, on the pedestrian mall. Open from 10am, outdoor seating. Lunch, not a production.

Pool & RC boatsSouth Beach

Downstairs. The boats are ours, we are not sharing them, and we will be politely repelling other people’s children for the duration.

Coral GablesCoral GablesJared asked

Miracle Mile is four blocks of Coral Way between LeJeune and Douglas: Mediterranean-revival facades, wide tree-lined sidewalks, alfresco everything. One block north, Giralda Plaza is a permanently pedestrianised restaurant alley — string lights, a dozen patios side by side, and the better of the two if you actually want to sit down. Do the Mile on foot, land on Giralda for a drink. Twenty-five minutes back to Alton Rd, so leave by 7:15 for Macchialina.

On the crypto-litigation guy. I went looking specifically for outdoor advertising — billboards, bus benches, radio — and could not confirm a single crypto lawyer running any of it in this market. Outdoor ads are badly indexed online, so it may well exist and Jared may well have seen it; I am just not going to name someone as an advertiser without proof. For what it is worth, the names that actually own crypto litigation down here are Adam Moskowitz’s firm out in Kendall, who ran the FTX celebrity-promoter class action against Brady and O’Leary, and Silver Miller up in Broward. Neither advertises. Keep your eyes up on the Mile and we settle it in person.

Two Gables things that do not work tonight: the Venetian Pool is daytime only and shut Mondays, and the Biltmore Bar runs Thu–Sat. Fontana, the Biltmore courtyard restaurant, is open nightly 6–10 if you want the hotel anyway — the 1926 lobby is worth walking through and costs nothing.

MacchialinaSouth BeachAllie is in

Rustic Italian, Michelin-listed, and the one dinner this week that is a genuine event. 820 Alton Rd, Miami Beach. Mon–Thu 6–10pm, dinner only. On Miami Spice at $50. Small room — book on Resy now. A late-August Monday is the easiest night we could have picked.

Their own site says 810 Alton Rd; every map service says 820. Call (305) 534-2124 to confirm before you walk.

GymSouth Beach

In the building. Open 24h to residents.

Azteca, and the walk backOcean Dr

Walk out to it. Nachos, margaritas, seats basically on the sidewalk, and the best people-watching on the beach. 1058 Collins Ave. Then walk back north and cut through Española Way — which is the entire reason to go on foot.

Daiquiri DogsOcean Dron the way back

Walk-up tiki window — frozen daiquiris and hot dogs, and nothing more complicated than that. 1144 Ocean Dr, daily 10am–midnight. One block east of Azteca, so it costs nothing to fold into the walk before you cut back through Española Way.

CVI.CHE 105DowntownJared has to

The one he has to be taken to. 105 NE 3rd Ave, downtown, open every day, 11:30am–10pm on a Tuesday. Juan Chipoco’s Peruvian institution, ten years in: ceviche made to order across the full range of leches de tigre, plus anticuchos, acevichado rolls and lomo saltado, in a bright white room. The happy-hour menu is real and cheap — apps $9–14, wine $7, beer $6, cocktails $10. Five minutes from Motek.

Call first: 305-577-3454. They publish the happy-hour menu but not the hours it runs — not on the site, not anywhere. They are also not on the OpenTable booking network, so this is a phone call or a walk-in either way. Worth the ninety seconds.

The honest risk is two dinners in one evening. If Azteca ran long, keep 105 to a couple of ceviches at the bar and treat it as the aperitivo — or do 105 properly and drop Motek. Both are good; doing both fully is a mistake.

MotekBrickell

Modern Israeli, and one of our favourite rooms in the city. 701 S Miami Ave #412A, fourth floor of Brickell City Centre. Mon–Thu until 10pm, so 7:30 is the right start. On Miami Spice. Books through SevenRooms.

PanamericanoBrickell

Hidden bar, second floor behind Novecento. 900 S Miami Ave, Suite 260. Tue–Thu 5pm–12am, closed Sun and Mon. Four minutes on foot from Motek — same street, two blocks. This is the hour we like it.

Blue MartiniBrickell

Same building, one suite over — 900 S Miami Ave, Suite 250. No travel between the two.

SanguichLittle Havanathe cubanoJared’s in

This is the one you asked for, and it is the best cubano in the city by a distance. Ham, mustard and pickles all made in house; Michelin-listed. 2057 SW 8th St, daily 10am–6pm. Fifteen minutes from MIA, which is the whole reason it is the last thing that happens.

MIAAirport

AA 1842, departs 5:10pm. Terminal D.