Coconut GroveNeighbourhood Guide

Chef Michael Beltran's Cuban-American flagship on Main Highway — a James Beard semifinalist room with a famous foie gras burger and a tasting menu that has tracked Beltran's growing restaurant group across the city.

A neighbourhood Italian on Commodore Plaza that has held its corner since 2013. Sidewalk seating, handmade pasta, and the kind of regulars who walk over from down the street.

Open-air dining built into Peacock Park itself — the kitchen looks out across the lawn toward the bay. Mediterranean-leaning small plates, strong on fish and on shareable wine.

A bayfront seafood and live-music venue that took over the historic Sailing Club site. Boat-up dock, weekly music programming Wednesday through Sunday, and unobstructed sunsets over Dinner Key.

The Coconut Grove outpost of Miami's defining specialty roaster. Single-origin pour-overs, beans by the pound roasted in Wynwood, and one of the more reliable laptop-friendly tables in the village.

A design-forward newer entry on Tigertail Avenue, leaning toward the polished, quieter end of the Grove coffee scene. Strong espresso program and a small food menu.

Miami's first vegan bakery, founded in 2009, with a Coconut Grove storefront. Vegan, nut-free, and gluten-free pastries paired with espresso — the cupcakes have a small but real local cult.

Thirty-five waterfront acres on Biscayne Bay with a public boat ramp, soccer and baseball fields, a roller hockey rink, and one of Miami's busiest off-leash dog runs.

A nine-acre village green on the site where Charles and Isabella Peacock built Miami's first hotel, the Bay View Inn, in 1882. Open lawn, playground, and the home of Glass & Vine.

Five acres of oak hammock surrounding Commodore Ralph Munroe's 1891 home — the oldest house in Miami still in its original location. Monthly moonlight concerts and guided tours of the house.

James Deering's 1916 Mediterranean-revival estate — a 28-acre bayfront property of formal European-style gardens, an Italian Renaissance villa, and one of the most photographed waterfronts in Miami. Technically just north of the historic Grove boundary, but deeply tied to its identity.

Coed grades 6–12 day school, two Coconut Grove campuses, roughly 1,100 students at a 9:1 student–teacher ratio. Consistently ranked among the strongest private schools in the country and the dominant feeder to top US universities from south Florida.

All-girls Catholic day school, PK–12, about 850 students at a 9:1 ratio. The bayfront Barat campus is on a former estate immediately north of the Grove core.

The neighbourhood's public elementary, PK–5, part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Walk-from-home for families inside the village core.

Running annually since 1963, the Grove's Presidents' Day weekend art fair is the most prominent of the neighbourhood's outdoor events and one of the longest-running juried fine art festivals in the United States.

Established in 1977 to celebrate the Grove's Bahamian heritage, Goombay turns Grand Avenue into a Junkanoo-style street carnival each June. Bahamian food, brass bands, and the longest direct line back to the neighbourhood's 1880s settlers.

The Grove's annual satirical parade, held the first Sunday of January since 1982 in defiance of the buttoned-up Orange Bowl Parade. Locally famous, deliberately strange, and beholden to no one.

A bayside Coconut Grove institution — open-air tiki, raw bar, frozen drinks that punch above their colour, and live reggae most weekends. Sit dockside if a table opens up; it's the most reliably Coconut Grove room in the neighbourhood.

An old-Grove neighbourhood bar with pink benches set out into Fuller Street, a pool table, and a long beer list. The closest thing the Grove has to a true dive — and a community fixture.

A small wine bar in the village core with an opinionated by-the-glass list and a counter you can sit at alone. The polished counterpart to Barracuda's bench-and-pool-table casual.