South Beach Wine & Food Festival
Get to the tents. More importantly, get home from them.
SOBEWFF is a walking, tasting, standing-in-sand kind of week. MB Hotel is 12 to 15 minutes north of the festival grounds, with two kitchens downstairs for the mornings after.
Daily Resort Fee: $29 + tax, charged per room, per night.
Location
The festival is south. Your bed does not have to be.
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival spreads across the South Beach sand, hotel ballrooms and restaurant dining rooms, with satellite events as far as the mainland. Almost none of it happens in the same place twice, which makes 'walking distance to the venue' a fiction — every attendee is riding somewhere.
Given that, the question is what you ride back to. MB Hotel is at 6525 Collins Avenue, about 12 to 15 minutes north of the main grounds, on a residential block where a late night ends quietly and a slow morning is possible.
The property does its own share of the eating. Caffe Frappe opens at 8:00am with crepes, salads and mimosas — genuinely the right menu for a festival week — and Kalypso holds the terrace beside the pool deck for the evening. Neither requires a ticket.
- South Beach festival grounds
- About 12–15 min by car [VERIFY]
- Lincoln Road & Ocean Drive dinners
- About 12–15 min by car [VERIFY]
- On property
- Caffe Frappe, 8:00am–3:00pm, and Kalypso restaurant and terrace
- Miami International (MIA)
- About 12 miles, 25–35 min [VERIFY]
Why MB Hotel
The practical case for staying north.
Breakfast is downstairs at eight
Caffe Frappe runs crepes, salads and mimosas from 8:00am to 3:00pm. After a Grand Tasting, a hotel with a real breakfast beats one with a lobby coffee machine.
Nobody has to drive
Collins Avenue is one straight route between the grounds and the door, and rideshares run it all night. A festival week and a rental car are a bad combination. [VERIFY]
A quiet block to recover on
Mid-Beach is residential. There is no street noise at three in the morning, which is the difference between four festival days and three.
An evening off, on site
Kalypso's terrace and the pool deck cover the night you decide not to attend anything. Kalypso's service hours [VERIFY].
Photography
Where the week's off-hours go.
Getting Here
Getting to the grounds and back.
- To the festival grounds
- 12–15 min by rideshare down Collins Avenue [VERIFY]
- Late returns
- Rideshare coverage on Collins runs well past midnight [VERIFY]
- Organiser shuttles
- SOBEWFF publishes its own event transport each year; check the festival's programme [VERIFY]
- Onsite parking
- $25 plus tax per day, limited availability
- Miami International (MIA)
- About 12 miles, 25–35 min by car [VERIFY]
Nearby
Eating around the festival.
Caffe Frappe
Crepes, salads and mimosas, 8:00am–3:00pm. The default recovery breakfast.
On property
Kalypso
The hotel restaurant and terrace beside the pool deck. Service hours [VERIFY].
On property
Sazon Cuban Cuisine
Neighbourhood Cuban cooking, a few minutes from the door.
Nearby [VERIFY]
Fifi's Seafood Restaurant
Casual local seafood — the unticketed dinner.
Nearby [VERIFY]
South Beach restaurant events
Festival dinners hosted across Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road and the hotel dining rooms.
12–15 min [VERIFY]
On Property
Two kitchens, no wristband.
Caffe Frappe
8:00am – 3:00pm
Crepes, salads and mimosas, served straight through the middle of the day. During festival week it doubles as the recovery room.
Kalypso
Restaurant & terrace
The property's restaurant, with shaded terrace seating beside the pool deck for the evening you decide not to attend anything. Service hours vary by season [VERIFY].
For the neighbourhood list — Sazon Cuban Cuisine, Fifi's Seafood and the rest — see restaurants near MB Hotel.
Good to Know
Festival week practicalities.
- Address
- 6525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33141
- Reservations
- +1 (305) 376-0359 or information@mbhotel.com
- Festival dates & tickets
- Set and sold by SOBEWFF, not the hotel — check the official programme [VERIFY]
- Caffe Frappe
- 8:00am–3:00pm daily
- Kalypso hours
- Vary by season — confirm at the front desk [VERIFY]
- Resort fee
- $29 plus tax, per room, per night
- Parking
- Onsite $25 plus tax per day, limited availability
- Check-in / check-out
- 3:00pm / 11:00am; minimum check-in age 21
FAQ
SOBEWFF questions.
Keep Reading
Other event weeks, and the booking pages.
Book Direct
Book the week, and the breakfast after it.
Reserve direct for the property's own rates, and tell the front desk if you'd like a table held on arrival night. [VERIFY]
Daily Resort Fee: $29 + tax, charged per room, per night.