Few things say “It’s time to party” like a literal bowl full of booze. At the Broken Shaker, they don’t mess around with massive glass vessels of fruity spirits that could double as above-ground swimming pools. Prepared daily using seasonal ingredients, expect an always well-balanced mix, like Bacardi Superior, vermouth, pineapple, cinnamon, citrus and chocolate bitters.
If Miami had an official drink—let’s be honest, it’d be a shot. In particular, a shot of questionable origin and neon hue, handed out on a crowded dancefloor in a Twinkie-shaped vial. But Miami’s official cocktail? That’s undoubtedly made with rum, a liquor as ingrained in the city as Art Deco hotels or cocaine cowboys. The history of Miami is littered with rum-soaked pirates, rum runners and pioneers who stilled the stuff in bathtubs. And while those dollar shots on the dancefloor do serve a purpose, we’ve admittedly outgrown them (or at least, we tell ourselves we have).
These days, we prefer our rum cocktails expertly swizzled or shaken and worked over by a true artist. Especially on those crisp Miami winter days, there’s nothing that warms from the inside out quite like an expertly crafted rum concoction. We’ve got lots of fantastic cocktail bars in Miami doling out damn good rum cocktails, and you’ll find the best of them here.
