WGM Weekly: Seaweed Everywhere, the Best Sandwich in Miami, and Lebron or DeRozen?
+ Tesla Robotaxis, Negroni Bankrupt, and Mister 01 has 30 Locations!!!
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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 7.6.26
ON MY MIND: We Can Split the Atom. We Cannot Beat the Seaweed.
USF’s Optical Oceanography Lab is calling 2026 another major sargassum year, and not the good kind. It’s already stacking up on the Keys and the southeast coast, and it’s not slowing down.
SMALL BUSINESS SUMMER: Orilla Is the Best Steakhouse in Miami You Haven’t Heard Of
South of Fifth is packed with restaurants fighting for attention. Orilla isn’t fighting. It’s just quietly cooking better food than most of Miami.
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Tesla Robotaxis Land in Miami. Miami Beach Doesn’t Make the Cut.
Tesla flipped the switch on driverless rides in Miami this month, no safety driver, no human in the front seat, fully unsupervised from day one.
Miami Sports Report: LeBron & DeRozan Free Agency Watch
LeBron James and DeMar DeRozan are now the two names running through Heat conversations, and neither is a reach anymore.
Hospitality Local Insider
Baguette Nir Is the Best Sandwich in Miami. It’s Not Even Close.
This is one of the great sandwiches this side of the Mississippi, made in a neighborhood most of Miami still overlooks. Don’t sleep on it.
Mister O1 Quietly Hit 30 Locations. Nobody’s Talking About It.
This started with 18 seats inside a South Beach office building in 2014.
Negroni Bankruptcy & More Closings in Brickell
Brickell is proving a hard truth about hospitality in this city, a packed dining room doesn’t mean a healthy business if the rent was never sustainable.
ON MY MIND: We Can Split the Atom. We Cannot Beat the Seaweed.
We split the atom. We got to the moon. We built AI. And every summer, a pile of brown algae drags Miami to its knees. USF’s Optical Oceanography Lab is calling 2026 another major sargassum year, and not the good kind. It’s already stacking up on the Keys and the southeast coast, and it’s not slowing down.
Let’s be honest about what this actually is: disgusting. It rots on the sand and starts pumping out hydrogen sulfide, the rotten-egg gas, thick enough to irritate your throat, your eyes, your skin if you get too close. Add in whatever’s living inside those piles and you’ve got a beach that looks like a postcard from fifty feet away and smells like a dumpster up close.
We can’t legally clear it before it hits shore, fine, there’s an ecosystem argument, I get it. But “we’re not allowed to touch it” can’t be the entire strategy for a problem that shows up like clockwork every single year. Somebody’s got to have a better answer than towels and low expectations. Or, and I say this with love: Febreze, this is your Super Bowl. Fix the beach, reinforce your brand promise, no one in Miami will ever buy Glade again.
SMALL BUSINESS SUMMER: Orilla Is the Best Steakhouse in Miami You Haven’t Heard Of
South of Fifth is packed with restaurants fighting for attention. Orilla isn’t fighting. It’s just quietly cooking better food than most of Miami. The bone-in rib eye arrives with three sauces and peppercorn, cooked exactly right, next to charred broccoli that wows your palette. That’s the tell of a serious kitchen, vegetables that could headline the plate on their own.
The pasta shouldn’t be this good at a steakhouse. The shrimp bucatini with a spicy sauce is homemade, fresh shrimp, better texture than most dedicated Italian spots in this city manage. The Palm should be jealous. The branzino comes with preserved lemon and garlic, crisp skin, flaky inside, one of the best versions of that fish anywhere in this city. The salads aren’t an afterthought either. Fennel salad is beautiful and flavorful. The Orilla salad with shaved parmesan, greens, and herbs better than Jen’s, that taste like they were picked that morning.
Then there’s the Wagyu cheeseburger, because apparently Orilla refuses to only be great at one thing. Wagyu on a brioche bun, provolone, smoked pork belly, caramelized onions. This is Argentine steakhouse cooking at a level that competes with anywhere in the city, the meat, the seafood, the pasta, the vegetables, all firing at once. Easily one of the best Argentinian steakhouses in Miami, hiding in plain sight south of Fifth.
Breakthrough Offer: During the summer What’s Good subscribers buy one bottle of wine, get one free or two complimentary glasses of wine with any Prime Bone-In Steak.
Available through September 1st. Don’t overthink this one. Go.
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