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The Guide — No. 07 · July 2026
July 2026
July is World Cup Miami — the city is full, loud, and better for it.
Miami doesn't really do quiet summers, but this one is something else. Seven World Cup matches, half the planet in town, and every restaurant, rooftop, and beach running at capacity. This month's Guide leans into it: places that hold up when the city is packed — and a few where locals can still hear themselves think. Fifteen years covering Miami, and I've never seen it like this. Enjoy it. — Mike
Mike Rynart
Delano Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Delano Miami Beach — The most talked-about reopening on the beach isn't a new hotel — it's an old icon that remembered how to be one.
Michael’s Genuine
Design District
Miami Spice season is when kitchens either coast or show off; the wood-roasted snapper and the Mango Gang cocktail are proof Michael's Genuine is still doing the latter.
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
Downtown
Frost Science: Extreme Sports — The planetarium and the 500,000-gallon aquarium were already reason enough; this summer's extreme-sports exhibit gives you a third.
Amara at Paraiso
Edgewater
Amara at Paraiso — Its Miami Spice menu is the rare prix-fixe that doesn't feel like a compromise — the pork chop Milanesa and the Fairchild-mango welcome cocktail are full-price good.
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Downtown
PAMM: Get in the Game — Sports and art rarely share a wall this well; PAMM's World Cup-timed exhibition makes the case that Miami's summer of competition is a cultural one too.
Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College
Downtown
Freedom Tower: Unidad — Miami's most historic building just became the World Cup's most unexpected home — a soccer exhibit inside the building that once processed refugees fleeing to watch it.
Tintin Miami
Little Havana
TinTin — Chef Victor Santos will tell you Miami cuisine isn't one thing — and Picanha Tuesday, arroz congrí and all, is the most convincing argument in Little Havana for why he's right.
Faena Miami Beach
Miami Beach
The Living Room at Faena — Monday nights at Faena now come with a martini built to order — Bombay or Grey Goose, Caviar Russe if you're feeling it — inside a room that already does 1950s Miami Beach better than anywhere else.
Takay
Coral Way
Takay — Ten seats, seventeen courses, seafood flown in from Japan the same week you eat it — Takay is the kind of quiet-opening omakase counter that Miami usually finds out about six months too late and it's a real family operation, which you feel in the room.
Daniel’s Miami
Coral Gables
A father-daughter steakhouse shouldn't be this good this fast — Daniel's is already being talked about with the country's best, not just Miami's.
China Grill
Bal Harbour
China Grill (Bal Harbour Shops) — The restaurant that made Fifth and Washington a destination in the '90s just reopened at Bal Harbour, and it brought the receipts: Crispy Spinach, Lobster Pancakes, Bananas in a Box, all still on the menu next to new dishes built for now.
Upside
Wynwood
At 8,500 square feet across two floors, this is the closest Wynwood nightlife has come to an arena, and it's already the neighborhood's default answer for "where's everyone going."
No. 08 drops next month.
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