The weekend is taking its talents to South Beach.
This week, Perks is covering your bar tab for your next dinner at Mia at Biscayne. Also: spend Labor Day weekend in Napa with Thomas Keller, hanging out at the French Laundry, and he’ll take you on a culinary whirlwind of catered meals and demonstrations. Save your appetite.
Just in time for your summer’s triumphant second half, the Webster is transforming into a surf store, selling beachy button-downs, boards and swim trunks. You will officially welcome it at a cocktail party tonight at 7pm. Then, at 10pm, it’s over to the Standard for surf movies by the pool. There’ll be a shuttle... or you could just surf there.
Your favorite burger-dispensing Airstream trailer just launched a covert menu that won’t be listed on the truck, so only insiders like you will even know it’s real and not just urban legend. When you get up to the window, ask for a Sloppy Dirty: slow-cooked brisket smothered in tangy BBQ sauce and topped with a poached egg. And make sure no one’s following you.
You’ve long recognized Overtown as a slice of downtown that’s brimming with art, music and good food. (Also: overpasses.) Saturday is your chance to blow it out down there with flowing vodka, a live saxophonist, sweet potato pie and a DJ spinning Motown. As far as we know, the saxophonist is not named Sergio.
A year ago, the Mondrian launched a brunch, and your Sundays have never been the same. This weekend they’re celebrating one year of successfully incorporating cocktails and bikinis into a brunch format the only way they know how: with even more cocktails and bikinis. From noon to 2pm, you’ll sip gratis cachaça drinks, followed immediately by a Betsey Johnson swimwear show. This is your city...
The other big brunch option this weekend is over at Nikki Beach, where, in addition to their normal all-you-can-eat Sunday affair—that’s unlimited Belgian waffles, and platters of smoked meats and cheeses—they’ll have swimwear models working the outdoor runway at 2 and 3pm in honor of Swim Week. As if you needed a reason...
