The long-awaited Memorial Day Weekend is FINALLY here…but so is the rain 😥 . The weather forecast for Miami over the holiday weekend calls for rain, rain, and more rain. Of course, that begs the question, “What to do in Miami on a rainy day?”. Below are our suggestions for keeping yourself dry and in better spirits.
5. Bowl with Friends at Splitsville
Even if you’re a lousy bowler, challenging a group of friends to games of bowling can be a great time. Splitsville, located in South Miami at The Shops at Sunset Place, has 13 bowling lanes along with a great selection of food and alcoholic beverages. For those with kids, it even has a kids menu and non-alcoholic beverages. Escape the rain, bowl to your hearts content, and be merry!
4. Get Sauced at M.I.A. Beer Company
Rainy days tend to get even the best of us down but there’s nothing quite like a cold beer with friends to turn that frown upside down. M.I.A. Beer Company has some outstanding beer options, but their bar food selection is equally as impressive. For those watching their caloric intake or don’t enjoy the bloat they get from beer, be sure to try HRD WTR. It’s delicious, refreshing, and has just 147 calories with 5 grams of carbs for 16 ounces.
3. Watch a movie at CMX Brickell City Centre CMX Brickell City Centre is the Rolls-Royce of movie theaters. It has just 10 viewing rooms, each with super comfortable, reclining chairs that are well spaced-out so that you won’t ever have to squeeze by other movie patrons as you make your way to and from your seat. In fact, the viewing rooms are intimate, with some having as little as 25 seats. Additionally, the theater has an excellent selection of food, beer and signature cocktails, all of which can be ordered while in your seat using their smart phone app or on-chair button. Last but not least, CMX Brickell City Centre has a super impressive sports bar called Stone Sports Bar located just outside the viewing rooms. It boasts the largest indoor LED screen in Florida…one of the best places in Miami to watch sports.
2. Shop ’til you drop at the Aventura Mall
You can easily spend an entire day at the Aventura Mall and still not have a chance to see everything. With 2,700,000 square feet of retail, the Aventura Mall is THE largest shopping mall in Florida and second largest in the United States. Last November, it opened a three-level expansion wing adding 241,000 square feet of stores and restaurants. Trust me, there’s something for everyone! If shopping ain’t your thang, enjoy the amazing restaurants that the Aventura Mall has to offer. My favs are Luke’s Lobster, CVI.CHE 105, Shake Shack, and Grand Lux Cafe.
1. Take a cooking class at La Centrale’s cooking studio called “La Cucina”
As you may have heard, La Centrale is a 40,000 square foot Italian food hall at Brickell City Centre. However, what you may not have heard is that La Centrale includes a cooking studio called La Cucina where you can learn hands-on the secrets of great Italian cooking from their master chefs. Some of their upcoming classes include: a Hands-On Neapolitan Pizza Workshop, Hands-On Pastry Class, Italian Sauces 101, and Fresh Pasta Workshop. They’ll have you saying al dente in no time.
Fun Fact Friday: Every Building Swire Builds Is Blessed By Monks… Twice
We find ourselves praising Swire Properties regularly. They move trees from their development sites to local parks rather than cutting them down, they donate money to The Underline (Miami’s answer to New York’s High Line), they spend $31 million on a climate ribbon that cools their shopping center, protects shoppers from the elements and looks really nice from every angle. Now, we also learn that each and every building that Swire Properties builds is blessed by monks at least twice.
The Hong Kong based developer has a tradition of flying monks to their build site at groundbreaking for a blessing ceremony. The ceremony is repeated once the project is complete. In 2005, Carbonell was even able to be blessed by the Dalai Lama himself! Brickell City Centre was blessed multiple times. First, there was a blessing ceremony at groundbreaking, then the East Hotel was blessed upon completion. Reach and Rise received their own completion ceremonies with the East Hotel receiving an additional blessing at this time. When the mall opened, the entire project was blessed again. Talk about counting our blessings! Here are the other buildings in the area that were built by Swire Properties:
At last! Brickell City Centre’s Cinemex has released a grand opening date! Granted, the opening day is a private event and not open to the public, but we know that the public opening will come soon thereafter. One of our readers kindly tipped us off that the people working inside the theater claimed they will “definitely” be open by May 5, the release day for “Guardians Of The Galaxy 2.” The private grand opening will take place April 27 with a “Great Gatsby” theme.
The wait for Brickell’s first movie theater has been dramatic. We had received so many opening dates that were later pushed back, we just stopped asking. The theater does not yet show up on Cinemex’s website or Fandango, but we’re checking daily. Eager patrons have swarmed their Google page with 1 star reviews due to the delay. We are confident that once we are able to attend a movie there, the experience will be amazing and those 1 star reviews will be balanced out by even more 5 star reviews.
In the meantime, check out our Miami condos movie that will air before each movie there. We’ll see you at Cinemex!
**** UPDATE: We have YET ANOTHER opening date. I have never seen a company with so many different opening dates. At any rate, Cinemex’s Instagram has announced that the theater in fact opens tomorrow.
Miami Condo Investments Is Going To The Movies! Cinemex At Brickell City Centre Update
Last month, we received information that the Cinemex movie theater in Brickell City Centre was set to open on February 17. This news was welcomed with much excitement by the people who have been waiting patiently to see a movie in Brickell. The people with Swire were less impressed. It seemed there were some delays behind the scenes that we were unaware of, and the opening day was pushed back to March 17.
As that date draws nearer, the permits still haven’t been closed out and opening day is rescheduled for March 24. This process of final permits always leaves us with very fluid dates. The date that they are closed out depends upon the schedules of the inspectors, contractors, the amount of paperwork on the desk of the inspectors and a host of other moving parts that could create a delay. Even so, we took a peek inside this week and saw that things are indeed very close to completion.
We are just as anxious as everyone else to see the theater open! This is something we have wanted to have in the neighborhood for 10 years now, and at last it is SO CLOSE! We have even signed on to have a 30 second commercial that will air before each movie on each of the 10 screens at the theater, starting on opening night. We are so eager to see the theater open, we can’t wait to show it to you! What do you think?
UPDATED: Brickell City Centre’s Cinemex Movie Theater Set To Open
Photo from The Next Miami
Get your popcorn, moviegoers!!! Brickell will officially have a movie theater very soon!
Brickell City Centre’s Cinemex theater is set to open its doors on Friday night, February 17, according to sources involved with the Mexican theater chain. The theater is located on the third floor of the shopping center, above Saks Fifth Avenue. Just outside the door is Pubbelly Sushi and Tacology, conveniently located for a dinner & movie date night. A full menu will also be served inside for those who prefer to dine during the film.
The Next Miami reported a few weeks back that the theater was hiring their staff and hosting new workers onsite. There are 517 total seats in 10 viewing rooms over the 47,000 square foot location.
***UPDATE February 8*** After varying claims from other offices within the development, we contacted Swire directly to have confirmation from all sides on the opening date. While the contact within CMX does claim February 17 as the opening date, Swire is saying mid March (considering all of the final permits are closed in a timely manner).
***UPDATE March 1*** Our contact with the theater has updated the opening date to be March 15. Here is a preview of the lobby.
