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Photo Credit: Courtesy of The Delano Miami Beach<\/p>\n
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Miami’s best kept secret is the hotel bar. The Champagne Bar at the Surf Club was named the best hotel bar in the country by Food & Wine. ViceVersa at the Elser Hotel took Best U.S. Hotel Bar at the 2026 Spirited Awards. And Rose Bar, the Delano’s legendary lobby bar since 1995, just reopened reimagined under Paris Society. Add Faena’s theatrical Living Room, The Standard’s hidden Monterrey Bar, and the EDITION’s 1950s Havana-inspired Matador Bar, and Miami’s hotel bars are no longer a convenient stop before dinner. They’re the actual destination.<\/p>\n
Rose Bar has been South Beach\u2019s ground zero for fashion-forward nightlife since Ian Schrager opened the Delano in 1995. The bar closed along with the rest of the hotel during its recent transformation, then reopened this year reimagined by Pirajean Lees as part of Delano\u2019s new era under Paris Society. The signature rose-hued glow, Venetian chandeliers, and quartz-topped bar all remain, evoking 1980s nightlife glamour with a distinctly modern pulse. It\u2019s designed to feel intimate early in the evening and progressively more alive as the night goes on, exactly the reputation it built the first time around.<\/p>\n
The Living Room at Faena<\/a><\/p>\n The Living Room sits inside Faena Miami Beach. It channels 1950s Miami Beach glamour on purpose. Velvet seating, gold lighting, and towering chandeliers fill the room. Live jazz plays most nights before local DJs take over later. Signature cocktails include the Queen of Collins and the French Luxe. By midnight, the line between bar and performance space disappears entirely.<\/p>\n Matador Bar at The Miami Beach EDITION<\/a><\/p>\n Photo Credit: Courtesy of The Miami Beach EDITION<\/p>\n Matador Bar overlooks the hotel\u2019s pool deck from inside The Miami Beach EDITION. American black walnut panels line the walls, hung with photographs from French photographer Lucien Clergue\u2019s Matador series. A solid walnut floating bar sits at the center of the room. Custom furniture and jewel-toned velvet banquettes surround it. The space channels the charm of 1950s Havana, and the bar pays direct homage to the classic cocktail experience.<\/p>\n ViceVersa at the Elser Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n ViceVersa took home Best U.S. Hotel Bar at the 2026 Spirited Awards, one of the cocktail industry\u2019s biggest honors. The ceremony took place in New Orleans. The Italian aperitivo bar sits inside Downtown Miami\u2019s Elser Hotel. It only opened in 2024. Bartender Valentino Longo leads the program. His cocktails are technical and playful at once. The win followed a James Beard semifinalist nod the year before.<\/p>\n Champagne Bar at the Surf Club<\/a><\/p>\n Food & Wine\u2019s 2026 Global Tastemakers Awards named the Champagne Bar at the Surf Club in Surfside the best hotel bar in the entire country. More than 400 culinary and travel experts made that call. They ranked it ahead of The Carousel Bar in New Orleans and Bemelman\u2019s Bar in New York. The panel judged atmosphere, creativity, and hospitality. This bar won on all three.<\/p>\n Jo\u2019s Bar at The Setai<\/a><\/p>\n The Setai\u2019s bar leans into a sophisticated, almost zen-like calm. Jaya, the hotel\u2019s restaurant, sits at the same location. Valmont handles the spa services next door. Guests consistently praise the smooth check-in experience and the quality of service at the bar itself.<\/p>\n Monterrey Bar at The Standard Spa<\/a><\/p>\n Monterrey Bar hides inside The Standard Spa in Miami Beach. The room stays sultry and intentionally understated. The cocktail menu leans creative, with drinks like the Paper Plane and the Monterrey Penicillin. An Aperitivo Hour runs weekdays from 5 to 8 p.m. The bao buns and crispy katsu sandwiches tend to turn a quick drink into a full night.<\/p>\n Bar Centro at the Andaz Miami Beach<\/a><\/p>\n Bar Centro anchors the Andaz Miami Beach Resort & Spa. The Key Lime Pie Daiquiri is the bar\u2019s signature order. The setting leans relaxed rather than formal. It\u2019s a strong pick for an early-evening drink before dinner elsewhere on the beach.<\/p>\n For more of Haute Living\u2019s Miami coverage, see The Haute Guide to Brickell and Downtown<\/a> and The Director Behind The Great Gatsby Also Designed This Miami Beach Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Haute Read<\/p>\n A hotel bar used to be an afterthought, a place to wait for a room key or grab one drink before heading elsewhere. Miami stopped treating it that way. The Surf Club and ViceVersa didn’t win national awards by accident. They built rooms and drink programs good enough to be the actual reason someone books the trip. In Miami right now, the hotel bar isn’t the warm-up. It’s the show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Haute Black \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 By Haute Living<\/p>\n Book any of these stays Haute Living access. Two decades inside the world\u2019s best hotels.<\/p>\n Virtuoso partner. Upgrades & VIP arrival at 1,200+ properties.<\/p>\n One advisor. Who knows you by name.<\/p>\n Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is the best hotel bar in Miami right now?<\/p>\n The Champagne Bar at the Surf Club in Surfside was named the best hotel bar in the entire United States by Food & Wine’s 2026 Global Tastemakers Awards.<\/p>\n Who redesigned Rose Bar’s recent reopening?<\/p>\n Pirajean Lees reimagined Rose Bar as part of the Delano’s new era under Paris Society.<\/p>\n Which Miami hotel bar won Best U.S. Hotel Bar at the 2026 Spirited Awards?<\/p>\n ViceVersa at the Elser Hotel won Best U.S. Hotel Bar at the 2026 Spirited Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami is known for its clubbing scene, the DJs, the bottle service, the lines that start forming at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[161868,161869,161870,141821,161871,161872,161873,123,125,124,161874,161875,161876,161877,161878,161879,161880,161881],"class_list":["post-407566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-best-hotel-bars-miami-2026","tag-champagne-bar-at-the-surf-club","tag-champagne-bar-surf-club","tag-faena-miami-beach","tag-jos-bar-ar-the-setai","tag-matador-bar-at-the-miami-beach-edition","tag-matador-bar-edition-miami-beach","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-monterrey-bar-standard-spa","tag-rose-bar-delano-miami-beach","tag-sugar-at-east-miami","tag-the-delano-miami-beach","tag-the-living-room-at-faena","tag-the-living-room-faena","tag-viceversa-at-the-elser-hotel","tag-viceversa-elser-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"How](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FAENA5.jpg\")
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