Miami
Polished, precise, civilised. Miami's best hotel-bar drinking — picked for craft, not concierge buzz.
City centre · $$$$
1 Rooftop is the 1 Hotel South Beach's open-air rooftop pool deck — a sprawling oceanfront terrace with panoramic Atlantic views and a polished daytime-into-nig
South Beach Miami by the Broken Shaker team. Seasonal cocktails · $$$
Bar Lab at Goodtime Hotel is what happens when you take two of Miami's most respected cocktail minds—Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta, the masterminds behind Broken Sh
South Beach · $$$
Do Not Sit on the Furniture draws a steady local crowd in South Beach. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
Brickell · $$$$
Komodo Lounge draws a steady local crowd in Brickell. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
South Beach · $$$$
Lobby Bar at Pendry draws a steady local crowd in South Beach. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
South Beach · $$$$
MILA Rooftop draws a steady local crowd in South Beach. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
Downtown Miami · $$$
Rosa Sky Rooftop draws a steady local crowd in Downtown Miami. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
City centre · $$$
A hotel bar our editors keep in rotation.
Watson Island · $$$
The Deck at Island Gardens draws a steady local crowd in Watson Island. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening.
City centre · $$$$
The Regent is the Gale South Beach hotel cocktail bar — a 1940s-influenced lobby room with leather chesterfields, a long mahogany bar and one of South Beach's m
Hotel bars solve specific problems. You need a bar near your room. You need somewhere quiet to take a meeting. You want the drink right the first time and you don't want to negotiate a wait. Every recommendation below clears those three bars. Most are open to non-guests; we've flagged any that aren't.
Best for: business travellers, late-checkout drinks, hotel-room negotiations made civilised, anniversaries that deserve a hotel jacket. Pricing skews higher than the city average — that's the trade. The rooms below justify it.
Civilised, polished, not pretending to be a club. Pick by neighbourhood and proximity to where you're sleeping.
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