B/C/J Independent

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Miami Beach

Every piece on the journal carrying the miami beach tag, most recent first.

11 MAY 2026

The Faena Hotel Miami Beach — A 2026 Review

Five paid nights at the Faena on 32nd and Collins — Luhrmann-Martin interior, Pao under Paul Qui, Los Fuegos under Mallmann, the Hirst mammoth in place.

03 MAY 2026

Best South Beach Miami Car Services 2026

South Beach is not a Miami neighborhood — it is the most demanding chauffeur micro-market in the United States south of Manhattan, an island geography squeezed between Government Cut, Biscayne Bay, and the Atlantic, fed by three causeways and a dozen hotel motor courts that run their own arrival choreography. We ranked nine operators on the criteria that decide a 2026 South Beach booking: MacArthur Causeway versus Julia Tuttle versus Venetian routing discipline against the time of day and the event calendar, motor-court fluency at the Faena, the Miami Beach EDITION, the Setai, the W South Beach, and the Fontainebleau Mid-Beach, after-dark posture on Ocean Drive and Lincoln Road, the Art Basel Miami Beach week impact during the first week of December, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in late February, the LIV-Story-E11even nightclub circuit on Friday and Saturday, and the all-in cost on a documented Setai-to-Miami-International airport transfer.

13 APR 2026

The Setai Miami Beach — A 2026 Review

Seven paid nights at the Setai on 20th and Collins, 22 years in — three pools, Jaya under Vijayudu Veena, and the Adrian Zecha vocabulary still holding.