WGM: Chalamet at E11even, Sunshine Launches Soft Serve, & Iconic Collins Hotel Changing Brands?
+ 500 Million For Last Land of Downtown Miami, HONŌ Opens, & Nomad is Ugly
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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 4.21.26
Life Altering Launch
Sunshine Coffee Introduces All Natural Soft Serve + Warm Cookies
Simple, clean, nourishing ingredients that taste like the best thing you’ve ever had.
Beach Business
Chalamet at E11EVEN at 7 PM
Coachella with the Kardashians or a boys’ weekend in Miami? Decision obvious.
Word on the Street: Billionaire Brothers Changing Flags
Who knows what will happen, but we can tell you one thing, the streets don’t lie.
Half a Billion for the Last Big Piece of Downtown Miami
“We did all the heavy lifting. We set the table.”
$1.4 Billion for Dinner Reservations
Whether the math works is almost beside the point. The sheikh wants dinner, and now he can have it whenever he wants.
Hospitality Local Insider
HONŌ Opens. You’ll Never Guess What Kind of Restaurant It Is.
See you on the rooftop. You’re buying the crispy rice.
TURNING POINT: Casa Tua Cucina Lands in Wynwood
This is it, folks. Wynwood is officially tipping.
Real Estate
Real Talk: Nomad Residences Wynwood, Designed by my Grandma?
A floral record player. A chandelier from grandma’s house.
Luxe Developments We Love: Shore Club Private Collection.
One of the most storied addresses in Miami Beach comes back, as 49 private homes designed by Robert A.M Stern.
LIFE ALTERING LAUNCH: SUNSHINE COFFEE + SOFT SERVE
If you know Sunshine Coffee, you know. You know the coffee. You know the matcha. You know the Sunshine Sando. You know what it feels like to walk in and feel like the whole neighborhood just gave you a hug.
Now imagine that, but with soft serve, that is all natural with no sugar.
Sunshine just launched soft serve. Two flavors in their brand colors, just like everything else. Yellow, French vanilla, no sugar added. Blue, all-natural Greek yogurt blended with spirulina. No junk. Just simple, clean, nourishing ingredients that happen to taste like the best thing you’ve ever had.
And then there’s The Mykonos. Greek yogurt soft serve. Olive oil. Sea salt. Honey. Four ingredients and suddenly you’re on a white stone wall overlooking the Aegean.
The life-altering, earth-shattering move is the Dream Team. Warm cookies, warmed to order, and cold soft serve. Side by side, in gooey matrimony. Cinnamon roll cookie. Banana bread chocolate chip. Double dark chocolate. Pistachio chocolate chip. Pick one, put it next to a swirl of Yellow or Blue, and experience unrelenting beachside bliss.
There are also Mini cones for the purists. Fresh-made warm Sundrop mini doughnuts for the adventurous. And the greatest affogato ever, vanilla soft serve with a double shot of Sunshine espresso poured right over the top. I’ve had them in Rome. I’ve had them in Milan. This one might be the best in the world.
Best news of all, you can now get your Miami Iced or an iced matcha latte until 8 PM from Wednesday to Sunday.
Come by. Bring someone you love. Sit outside on Española Way while the sun goes down and the music plays. Get a matcha. Get a Dream Team. Get both.
Life will never be the same. I mean it.
Sunshine Coffee, 1436 Washington Ave (At Espanola Way)
Open Daily 7 AM to 5 PM, Open Until 8 PM, Wednesday to Sunday
BEACH BUSINESS
CHALAMET AT E11EVEN AT 7 PM
It ain’t easy being Timothée Chalamet. One weekend you’re at Coachella with Kylie. The next you have to choose between going back to the desert with the Kardashians or a boys’ weekend in Miami. Tough life.
The biggest movie star in the world chose us. Fresh off CinemaCon with Zendaya and Momoa, fresh off Coachella Weekend 1 with Kylie, Chalamet could have gone anywhere on Earth. He grabbed his boys and flew to Miami Beach. Shirtless on the sand between the Setai and 1 Hotel on Friday. Inside E11EVEN at 7 PM on Saturday, while the rest of the city was still deciding what to wear.
No premiere. No brand deal. No cameras he invited. Just a bachelor party, an all-black outfit, and a nightclub entry time that would make most Miamians blush.
Kylie went back to Coachella. Timothée chose the 305. And honestly? Between bottle service at sunset and watching Bieber for the second weekend in a row with your girlfriend’s entire family, the man didn’t just make a choice. He made the only choice.
WORD ON THE STREET: BILLIONAIRE BROTHERS CHANGING FLAGS?
One of the most recognizable hotels on South Beach is about to change its brand. The billionaire brothers who own it have been making big moves on the property, and word is the biggest move is still coming. The flag.
A flagship Marriott brand out. A flagship Hilton brand in. Iconic hotel, on the sand, on Collins.
If it happens, Hilton plants its most prestigious flag on one of the most visible stretches of beach in America, in a building a Marriott brand used to call a flagship. Not a transition, a high-profile takeover.
Who knows what will happen, but we can tell you one thing: the streets don’t lie.
HALF A BILLION FOR THE LAST BIG PIECE DOWNTOWN
Marc Roberts and the Simkins brothers at Lion Development just listed a 6.6-acre site in Park West for $500 million. That’s downtown Miami’s largest remaining development parcel, right next to Miami Worldcenter, right next to the I-395 Signature Bridge, right next to everything they already built.
The zoning allows for over 10 million square feet. Thousands of units. Residential, hotel, office, retail, whatever the buyer wants to build, the land says yes.
These are the guys behind E11EVEN. The club, the towers, the brand. They assembled the land, built the neighborhood, and now they’re selling the last piece to whoever wants to finish it. Roberts put it best: “We did all the heavy lifting. We set the table.”
Half a billion for 6.6 acres in a neighborhood that didn’t exist ten years ago. That’s some beautiful and blessed Miami math.
