After 15 years of stuffing Miami with bacon-wrapped dates and beautifully colored beet mojitos, the restaurant that made Midtown cool is closing.
The trend-setting Sugarcane, which opened at 3252 NE First Ave. in 2010, announced the news on its social media platforms, thanking its customers “who brought the energy day after day.” It will remain open until Jan. 31.
“Great food! Spirited cocktails! Excellent staff! We brought it all to Midtown and you chose us year after year,” the announcement said on Instagram and Facebook. “We were the ‘go to’ local spot for our neighbors and the ‘must go’ destination location for those visiting.
“Our outdoor garden has hosted more engagement parties, baby showers and promotion dinners than we can count. We have celebrated them all and more together!”
Midtown has drawn other popular restaurants recently — notably Maty’s, the Peruvian hotspot from James Beard Award-winning chef Val Chang , and her brother Nando Chang’s omakase spot Itamae AO . But in 2010, Sugarcane, co-founded by New York Sushisamba’s Shimon Bokova, was cutting edge, showing off trends that would become the rule rather than the exception.