North Miami

Choose your own adventure in North Miami

☕️ Start the day with a morning buzz… at Café Crème. The European feel of the French bakery and bistro extends to the outdoors with seating on the MOCA Plaza. …or Alaska Coffee Roasting Co. which, as the name might suggest, started with a sister shop in Fairbanks. Their coffee is roasted, ground and brewed […]

/ April 28, 2023

Bridges to the beach: Here’s a brief history of Miami’s coastal causeways

Ever wondered about the history of Miami’s coastal causeways? We took a look at how they came to be.

/ August 26, 2019

Spotlight on North Miami

Want to learn more about North Miami? We’ve got you covered.

/ August 8, 2019

The North Miami Public Library has more than books

We spent weeks in North Miami drinking “The Wine of the Tropics,” eating 30 kinds of homemade cheese, and singing at a bar where drinks are named after the regulars. On our last stop in one of Miami’s oldest and most diverse neighborhoods, we read. Well, sort of.  “The library is never about the books,” […]

/ August 6, 2019

How did the city of North Miami get such a straightforward name? We’ve got the answer

A reader asked us why North Miami has such an unimaginative name so we decided to figure out why.

/ July 22, 2019

Luna Star Cafe’s owner puts the mom in ‘mom ‘n’ pop’

Alexis Sanfield puts the “Mom” in Mom ‘n’ Pop. The Luna Star Cafe has been in business since 1996 and Alexis he considers herself as “out of the box” as her regulars, most of whom have been going for 20+ years. And some on a daily basis.  The cafe has a selection of more than […]

/ July 22, 2019

Meet your local cheesemakers

Ten years ago, Bruno Ponce started making mozzarella from home with the help of YouTube and his friend Mimmo. Just a few years later, he opened Mimmo’s Mozzarella Market and Cafe, where he makes fresh cheese from scratch, and by hand, on the daily.  Stop by and you’ll find up to 30 selections of specialty […]

/ July 18, 2019

What are your questions about North Miami?

Got questions about North Miami? Submit them and we’ll dig for the answers.

/ July 9, 2019

NoMi’s coffee roasters (and pizza makers)

Ever seen a Sivetz in action? This fluid-bed coffee roaster works overtime at Alaska Coffee Roasting Co. in North Miami where your cup of joe is roasted and brewed to order. First established in 1993 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Michael Gesser decided to bring what he’s coined “The Wine of the Tropics,” well, to the tropics, […]

/ July 9, 2019