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Eating in Little Havana: Ventanitas, Coladas and What to Order
The ritual matters as much as the menu. Coffee is shared, lunch is the big meal, and the neighbourhood is no longer only Cuban.
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Yvette Charles
Culture & Food Editor
Beat: Neighborhoods, Food Tours, Museums & Culture
Yvette writes the neighbourhoods: Little Havana and Little Haiti, Wynwood and the Design District, the Grove and the Gables. She covers ventanitas, griot, gallery nights and the last Friday of the month on Calle Ocho, names the places she recommends, and checks they are still open the week before we publish.
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Guides by Yvette Charles
Reported guides to Miami, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
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Miami Art Guide: Murals, Private Collections and Free Museums
Wynwood is where visitors start and where most of them stop. The city that collectors fly in for every December is spread across five neighbourhoods.
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Art Basel Lands in Early December and Resets Prices Across the County
One week in December when the whole county programmes its best work, and the hotel you looked at in October costs twice as much.
December 4 – December 6
Festival
Carnaval Miami Fills March, and the Calle Ocho Festival Closes Fifteen Blocks
Organisers describe it as the largest Hispanic street festival in the United States. Either way, it is the busiest day of the year on Calle Ocho.
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Festival
Calle Ocho Opens Up for Viernes Culturales on the Last Friday of Every Month
Free, monthly, and run by and for the neighbourhood rather than for a coach party. The best evening of the month to be in Little Havana.
FeaturedSeasonal
Stone Crab Season Runs 15 October to 1 May, and the Crab Goes Back in the Water
One of the few fisheries where the animal is returned alive. The season is fixed, the supply is not, and opening week is the worst value of the year.