VIP in Miami: from the table to sunrise

ZZ's Club, opened in 2021 in the Design District by Major Food Group, keeps its dinner service for members; Casa Tua, in a 1925 house at 1700 James Avenue in South Beach, combines a restaurant, a small hotel and a members' lounge upstairs. In Miami, a fine evening often begins behind these doors.

We ask for that access: a held table, an invitation in the right name, a word with the manager. Your preferences are passed on in advance. The decision belongs to the house: when it isn't possible, we tell you.

LIV, at the Fontainebleau on Collins Avenue, opens Thursday to Sunday, with a strict dress code; Downtown, E11EVEN stays open day and night, and Club Space, a few steps away, keeps its terrace dancing until sunrise. The Miami night plays out in these rooms, and the right table is decided well before midnight.

We ask for the table in the right place, bottles at the right pace and a dedicated welcome. The door keeps its rules — dress, age, list — and we know them before you do.

A crewed yacht for the day: anchoring at the Haulover sandbar on lively weekends, or a quieter pass by Stiltsville; back at sunset facing the Brickell skyline, then a tender to a restaurant's dock. We compose the atmosphere, the crew and the transfers, for an evening that begins at sea.

In the weeks of Art Basel Miami Beach, in December, and the Grand Prix, in May, tables are requested weeks ahead and private parties multiply. A welcome through a discreet entrance, plain-clothes security, a table away from view: we surround your evening with silent safeguards and communicate nothing concerning you.