Two farewells: a Michelin-starred room and a South Beach bar
A Michelin star goes dark on Collins, Intenso has a permit for Lincoln Road, and two all-ages Bandshell nights are on deck.
Last week brought two farewells and no explanations, while an Italian newcomer's Miami Beach debut rests so far on a state permit, a brief confirmation from its owner and a "launching soon" line on its website. The surest things on the calendar are two all-ages Bandshell nights this month, one from a band that keeps reinventing itself and one from a guitarist revisiting his funk-jazz side.
Tambourine Room is done. Tristan Brandt's restaurant at 6801 Collins Ave., which held a star in Michelin's 2026 guide, closed Sept. 30, announcing it that same day in an Instagram farewell that opened, "Tonight, the curtain closes." It served tasting menus of French cooking with Asian accents.
In South Beach, Tropezón was set to serve its final dinner Saturday, Oct. 3. Randy Alonso and Chris Hudnall, who also run Lost Boy Dry Goods downtown, opened the Española Way bar in 2021 as their first restaurant. It paired tapas with more than 20 gins infused in house, in a room styled like a Spanish village saloon.
Neither place said why. Tambourine Room opened at the Carillon Miami Wellness Resort in December 2022, named for the hotel's original lounge from 1958. It closed short of four years, Michelin star and all.
Intenso, a Swiss-born Italian brand, lines up Lincoln Road
A state business permit puts Intenso, a Southern Italian restaurant brand born in Switzerland, at 640 Lincoln Rd. Owner Salvatore Viscomi confirmed the opening to What Now Miami but gave no other details. That means no date, menu or prices yet. What Now Miami guesses it will open this fall, or winter at the latest.
The plan reaches well past one storefront. Intenso built up seven locations across Switzerland, including Geneva, Zurich and Verbier, and Lincoln Road would be its first restaurant outside that country. The company registered its Florida LLC in August 2024. Viscomi is steering, with brand consultant Melissa Feliciano, a planned seven-location push across Florida. Back home, its properties typically combine a dining room with a lounge bar and an Italian specialty shop.
Three years after Oct. 7, a Nova survivor spoke at the Holocaust Memorial
Three years after Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a crowd gathered at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach on Wednesday, Oct. 7 to remember the dead. The memorial is the first anywhere to carve the victims' names in English and Hebrew. Survivor Maya Izoutchee, who was working at Nova, the music event where many were killed, recalled running as gunfire rang out and rockets flew overhead. A Holocaust survivor also shared reflections, and visitors could step into the memorial's new virtual reality exhibit on the attack.
Soon after the attack, with Israeli firefighters pulled into military duty, eight Miami Beach firefighters offered to go to Israel to help. At a Miami Beach firehouse on Wednesday, Ben Ladany, who served in the Israel Defense Forces and spent two years in a wheelchair after being wounded in the war in Gaza that followed, said, "I will never hold hate in my heart."
Black Country, New Road brings an all-ages show to the Bandshell
- When
- Friday, Oct. 9 · Doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m.
- Where
- Miami Beach Bandshell
Black Country, New Road plays the Bandshell on Friday, Oct. 9, and it has a habit of starting over. Its debut, For the First Time, was nominated for the Mercury Prize. After singer Isaac Wood left, the band wrote a fresh set of songs that became Live at Bush Hall, which The Guardian gave five stars. Now a six-piece, it splits singing and most of the songwriting among May Kershaw, Tyler Hyde and Georgia Ellery on its third studio album. Lily Seabird opens the all-ages concert.
The city lot across the street, at Collins and 73rd, is no longer free. It charges $2 an hour, with street parking as the fallback when it fills. The open-air venue sits under a new canopy, and Bandshell shows are scheduled to go on rain or shine.
John Scofield revisits his funk-jazz catalog at the Bandshell
- When
- Saturday, Oct. 24 · Doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m.
- Where
- Miami Beach Bandshell
Guitarist John Scofield brings Electrospective to the Bandshell on Saturday, Oct. 24, a concert that looks back at the funk-jazz side of his 54-year career. The three-time Grammy winner is reworking fusion groove tunes from his AGoGo, Uberjam and Blue Matter bands, plus new material along the same lines. Don't expect the records note for note: he wants to revisit the old favorites with decades of perspective, not copy them.
The band is stacked. Adam Deitch of Lettuce, a Scofield alum, plays drums, Larry Goldings is on keyboards, and Oteil Burbridge, of Dead & Co. and the Allman Brothers, holds down bass.