Bistro Café: The Formula for Success in Miami
Every city, region, county, state have different requirements and guidelines on how your business should operate and behave in order to survive. What might work in Missouri wouldn’t necessarily work in South Dakota. What might be a huge hit in Los Angeles wouldn’t necessarily translate to success in Atlanta. Tastes are different, demographics are different, and of course there’s the political climate and infrastructure differences which may also hinder or help your venue.
Miami, to me, usually wants their restaurants to be very Latino, very colorfully loud, and with hints of exclusivity, excess, and some sex appeal. And my friends, if you’re interested in a textbook example of this, I present you the Bistro Café.
This place screams Miami from the moment you’re trying to park the damn car. The mind-numbing balls of the nearby lot wanting to charge $10 PER HOUR to park, the wait just to be seated, the ambiance, the activity, the eye candy, the extensive menu, the presentation, the eye candy (yea..I gotta repeat it), the noise, the amount of available drinks and cocktails, the extensive waiting, and of course the food actually being damn good.
Bistro Café is a Puerto Rican brunch staple in the confides of Downtown Miami with success pouring out from those doors, as they have developed a reputation for having great gigantic meals and overly-giant drinks to go along with the Instagrammable décor. I got an exaggerated iced coffee, their exaggerated Viking omelet, with some Reeses peanut butter pancakes to join along with the insanity. But I mean exaggerated in the most positive way, because the results are tastily wild.
Food is really good and worth the wait, just be sure to arrive with an empty stomach and a full wallet because the temptations to spend more will haunt you. I ended up getting a mango smoothie, which was also straight-up delicious. I ended up not eating for 24 hours by the time I was finally finished here. Coming here is not some quick visit, this is an event and it must be treated as such. Come here early, survive the sexy madness, and then chill at a park or a beach for the rest of the afternoon. These are doctor’s orders.
