Casa Faena Miami Beach
Hotel · Miami Beach
3500 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Highlights
Chic rooms, Argentine restaurant, garden, and parking available
Chic rooms, Argentine restaurant, garden, and parking available
"I learned that the Miami Faena property, opened in 2015, has become a fixture of the fashionable set and is famously home to a golden Damien Hirst woolly mammoth sculpture in its courtyard." - Devorah Lev-Tov
"The luxury hotel will host a residency by a Chicago fine-dining institution in its Pao dining room from April 30 to May 25, as part of that restaurant’s 20th-anniversary tour that also stops in Brooklyn and Beverly Hills. Tickets are being sold through Tock and were expected to move quickly — reservations for the Brooklyn dates were gone in less than a day — with seats priced at roughly $500 each. This property previously hosted the same restaurant in 2016 when the team set up at the hotel during renovations to create an experience mixed with influences from local cultures and flavors; chef Grant Achatz explained their approach at the time: "We had to look for people who were into creating an experience, not just dinner." The engagement underscores the hotel's role as a venue for theatrical, high-concept culinary events held in the Pao dining room." - Erin Perkins
"Campo is a new restaurant inside Casa Faena on Miami Beach, led by Executive Chef Antonio Maldonado. It serves Latin-influenced American dishes with ingredients sourced from South Florida farms. The menu includes raw bar items, robata skewers, sushi rolls, and emphasizes sustainable proteins and seasonal vegetables. Highlights include avocado salad with Ark Farm shishito peppers and green papaya, wild mushroom tlacoyo with chipotle butter, and Maine lobster with serrano yuzu and cascabel aioli. Other dishes feature Key West shrimp marinated in adobo, hamachi rolls with Fresno chilies, and bone marrow ramen in shiitake dashi. Desserts include passion fruit cheesecake with goat cheese and coconut, and an apple dessert with Granny Smith apples and mascarpone. The all-day brunch menu offers house-baked pastries, smoothies, loaded pancakes with berries, chilaquiles with a sunny-side-up egg and queso fresco, and a wagyu burger with port salut and smoked gouda." - Olee Fowler
"Miami Beach always beckons for a stay fronting the Atlantic Ocean at ultra-luxe spots like The Faena."
"When in Miami, I like to lean into its excessive, chaotic glamour — which means the Faena, a maximalist fever dream and my hotel of choice. I adore the bold red and turquoise color scheme in all the rooms (100 percent yes), and the animal-print coaches with gilded chandeliers in the lobby. It’s an art-lover’s paradise: Damian Hirst’s “Gone but not Forgotten,” a gold-leafed wooly mammoth skeleton, sits on its grounds, and during Art Basel they always have an avant-garde installation — last year it was a carousel by Raúl de Nieves." - Elise Taylor
