Boozy and bottomless brunches in Miami

Is there another bottomless brunch in town that better defines the genre? At Jaya, tables spread out in a charming open-air courtyard surrounding the pool. In the center is a jazz band, on a stage right there in the middle of the water. You’ll see people in their best flowy dresses and sports jackets. The food, from executive chef Vijayudu Veena, is far from the standard fare, with everything from Indian to Indonesian, and was recently updated to include Peking duck and grilled-to-order stations. The drinks are, of course, endless: The $98 price includes bottomless champagne, white wine, rośe and a mojito bar.

The restaurant with the best view in Miami and the city's finest representation of Peruvian Nikkei cuisine started serving brunch again in early 2023, and it ought to be on the list of anyone who relishes a midday splurge. Aside from the buffet, the brunch includes a full entree from the dinner menu and also a tower of desserts delivered tableside. The $135 price includes endless pours of many drink options, including the house specialty pisco sour, a fresh, foamy cocktail that'll get your Sunday started right.

How serious are we in Miami about brunch? So much so that we don’t limit it to the hours of actual brunch. The Tea Room serves up an Asian version at night, timed with what would be morning in Hong Kong. The five-course brunch is $88 and includes two hours of free-flowing wine, champagne, and beer.

Bagels and bubbles—the perfect match. Double down on this delicious pairing at Freehold's Sunday brunch (noon–5pm), featuring Montreal-style homemade bagels. These fresh-baked babies arrive with a tower of schmears and toppings, including sweet jams, almond butter and savory favorites like lox, capers and cream cheese. As for the bottomless option, $40 will get you two hours of anything from the "adulting" section of the menu, which includes prosecco, mimosa, white peach bellini, bloody mary, michelada or a Pimms cup.

The Sunny Isles outpost of a storied downtown Manhattan restaurant serves up an Italian-theme brunch on Sundays from noon to 4pm complete with charcuterie, lots of seafood, crudo and pastries made in-house. The $115 price tag includes endless pours of bloody marys, mojitos and sangrias. There’s live music, and while the white tablecloth dining room has a classic air, head to the terrace out back for brunch with a sea breeze.

Sweet Liberty’s party brunch is one of our all-time favorite Sunday pastimes—in part because we have somewhere to go, or rather stay put, once we’re through eating. Making us linger a little longer is the bottomless rośe for $40. Luckily, cauliflower nachos, our day-one classic, pair with all the beverages.

SUGARCANE's new all-day (until 4:30pm), everyday bottomless brunch offering means you no longer have to wait for the weekend to indulge. The drinks deal starts at $35 and includes two hours of unlimited red or white sangria or prosecco rosé, to be enjoyed while dining on the brasserie's signature a la carte brunch plates like the Duck & Waffle ($25), Truffled Toad in The Hole ($17), Cuban Benedict ($17) and more.

This Brickell outpost of a Hong Kong-bred concept serves up a two-hour Bubbles & Bao Brunch. The menu is a dim sum best-of, though here they skip the carts for made-to-order dishes, as many as you can devour, for $68. Ample add-ons include a half or whole-roasted Peking duck for $50 or $102 and prawns with black truffles for $11. Drink options start with a reasonable $17 upcharge for flowing sparking rosé, ranging up to $77 for a top-shelf rosé; and either option will also get you unlimited bellinis, mimosas, beer, wine and bloody marys. There’s also a Dark Brunch served on select Thursday nights for those who shun sunlight. 

Miami Beach’s longest-running drag bar holds down Ocean Drive with two bottomless brunch seatings each Friday, Saturday and Sunday (11am and 2pm) and a single seating on Mondays (12pm). For $50, enjoy a choice of brunch dishes and bottomless mimosas on the expansive outdoor patio as you take in the iconic looks, legendary lip-syncing and death-defying acrobatics of Palace’s hard-working queens.

Having opened in 2015, Beaker & Gray is at this point the old granddad of the Wynwood scene, a place that’s still just as fun as it was when it helped pioneer this eastern bit of the arts district. The brunch is bumped up by $48 bottomless (albeit with a two-hour limit) sparkling wine and mimosas made with the traditional orange or watermelon juice.

Perched atop Lincoln Road, Juvia has always been a scene as glitzy as the sparkling water surrounding Miami Beach. Brunch is no less so: Purchase a main course and get the option of a $35, two-hour endless pour of mimosas, bellinis, prosecco, margaritas and Aperol spritzes.

The fabulous Athena Dion hosts R House’s legendary drag brunch, where your scrambled eggs and mimosa come with a side of spectacular performances. There are two seatings on Saturday and Sunday, so you’ll want to plan around showtimes before booking a reservation. You can’t go wrong with the $50-per-person menu, which gives you plenty of food, a view of the gals doing their thing, and bottomless mimosas, mojitos and sangrias.

The stylish white house that’s home to Pinch Kitchen turns into a chill Sunday party when brunch comes around. The dishes here are as pretty as the surroundings, like eggs in a crispy potato basket that’s as cheery as the rising sun, and the stuffed brioche French toast with guava jam tastes like something that could only be created here in Miami. Add on bottomless mimosas for $25, because we ought to make a day out of this house party.

Planta raises the bar on unlimited brunch booze. Steven Salm’s glitzy vegan spot that began in the South of Fifth neighborhood and spawned clones across South Florida includes bottomless mimosas and margaritas. After a few of those, you'll be ready to move on to a menu that's a mix of cuisines, like the falafel tacos or shakshuka with split-pea fritters.

This is the only restaurant in the Prime family that won’t break the bank, especially at brunch. Choose an egg dish for your entrée and make your way to the large buffet for starters, seafood and sweets. Plus, brunch comes with bottomless mimosas, bellinis, prosecco and bloody marys too. Were you dining at Prime on a regular night, the $55 price would barely cover a tip.

You might know it more for its football watch parties than its food, but the brunch game at this mini Miami-bred chain is strong. The widespread menu covers the classics (pancakes, omelets) the trendy (avocado toast, chicken and waffles) and the hangover-curing (hashes, burgers). The bottomless drink option lasts only 90 minutes, but includes five drink options and is a steal at $22.50.

When your brunch plans center around getting buzzed, Tap 42 is where you want to book. Reserve a table (they fill up quickly on weekends) and settle in for four hours of unlimited mimosas, bloody marys and select tap beers. You can technically make this a liquid brunch, as the purchase of an entrée isn’t required to get the deal on drinks. Fortunately, there’s more than one burger on the menu and an aptly named hangover sandwich to ensure you don’t.

Is the fact that you’re out of college really going to keep you from partying like you’re still in the dorms? It’s brunch, which means hair of the dog, which means partying in what might be Brickell’s partiest of brunches, which means splurgy dishes like cinnamon French toast crunch paired with endless mimosas for 25 bucks.

Nosh your way through a three-course tapas menu at Bulla, where brunch dishes run the gamut from Spanish and traditional like pan con tomate to hearty and hangover-staving like the burger. Make it a party, although cut off at two hours, with bottomless sangria and mimosas for an extra $20.

The Goodtime Hotel's pink-hued, poolside Mediterranean restaurant serves a bottomless brunch on Saturday and Sunday (11am to 4pm) for $36—though that's just for the cocktails. The choices: mimosa, rośe and a Jah-Mama Mary. That last one is essentially a bloody mary made with Jah Mama, a scotch-bonnet hot sauce. You can enjoy a liquid brunch or opt for several tasty a-la-carte items, such as the chocolate babka french toast, shakshuka or the falafel benedict.

As the name implies, you’ll find this hidden Wynwood hangout through a back door. And this quirky spot does something else a bit different: brunch is essentially ladies’ night. Women drink free mimosas from 1 to 6pm on Sundays while eating from an Asian-fusion menu of 10-hour braised pork belly and nori-dusted muffins with fried eggs and truffle hollandaise.