Casa Neos reopened for the season on October 11 along the Miami River, bringing back its waterfront restaurant, beach club, lounge, and members-only rooftop with a celebration headlined by DJ and producer Pablo Fierro. The 40 SW North River Drive complex returns with its Miami Spice dinner menus still running, giving diners discounted access to the same Mediterranean-inspired space that has become one of the river's most talked-about dining destinations.
The reopening comes courtesy of Riviera Dining Group, the Miami-based hospitality company that operates Casa Neos alongside MILA, AVA Mediterraegean, and Claudie, according to Haute Living. RDG confirmed Miami Spice menus across all four venues, with dinner experiences priced between $65 and $150 per person before additional charges. At Casa Neos specifically, the $65 Miami Spice dinner runs Tuesday through Thursday and on Sundays, while a $150 signature dining experience takes over Fridays and Saturdays.
A River Complex Built for More Than Dinner
Casa Neos is not just a restaurant. The property spans 30,000 square feet along the Miami River and was designed by Barcelona-based designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán, who filled the multi-level venue with Venetian plaster walls, hand-painted ceramics, and Moroccan textiles, according to DiningOut. The complex expanded further in March, when Riviera Dining Group added a third-floor nightlife lounge and a fourth-floor open-air, members-only rooftop called Casa Neos MM, built as a suspended garden overlooking the river, per World Red Eye's reporting on the buildout.
The property also includes a boutique hotel with four suites named Gaia, Terra, Aura, and Luna, each styled around a natural element, marking Riviera Dining Group's first venture into hospitality lodging, according to The APT Team. Between the restaurant, lounge, rooftop club, and hotel rooms, the reopened Casa Neos functions as a single four-story lifestyle complex rather than a standalone dining room.
Spice Pricing Varies Across RDG's Portfolio
The Miami Spice discounts extend well beyond Casa Neos. At MILA in South Beach, the $65 Miami Spice dinner is available Sunday through Thursday, with a $150 signature experience taking over Friday and Saturday nights, per the same Haute Living report. AVA Mediterraegean in Coconut Grove runs its $65 Miami Spice dinner every day, including weekends, alongside a $120 signature dining experience also available daily.
Claudie, the French-Mediterranean concept Riviera Dining Group opened on the ground floor of 1101 Brickell Avenue in February 2025, offers its $65 Miami Spice dinner daily and a $120 signature dining experience, plus a Miami Spice lunch menu Monday through Friday. Claudie's debut pushed RDG's footprint into Miami's financial district, according to Traded, rounding out a four-venue lineup now all participating in the citywide promotion.
Why Spice Season Is Stretching Into Autumn
None of this would be possible on an October calendar without a change from the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, which extended the 2026 Miami Spice Restaurant Months through October 31 to mark the program's 25th anniversary — the first time in its history the promotion has spanned three full months, according to MiamiNav. More than 400 Miami-Dade County restaurants enrolled in this year's program. Miami Spice was originally created in 2001 following the post-9/11 tourism decline to help local restaurants boost revenue during the region's slower late-summer stretch, and it traditionally ran only through August and September.
Casa Neos' head of culinary, Chef Michaël Michaelidis, oversees kitchen operations across Riviera Dining Group's venues after 12 years with the Robuchon Group, where he trained under Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse and accumulated 26 Michelin stars across kitchens in Monte Carlo, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore, according to the MICHELIN Guide. That pedigree sits behind both the discounted Spice menus and the pricier signature dinners now running side by side at Casa Neos.
Riviera Dining Group's Rapid Rise
Riviera Dining Group was founded in Miami by CEO Gregory Galy, former chief executive of New York's Fig & Olive, and Chief Brand Officer Marine Giron-Galy, who launched MILA in South Beach in 2020 before building out the multi-concept group, per the Journal des Palaces. The company's flagship, MILA, ranked as the highest-grossing independent restaurant in the United States in Restaurant Business Magazine's 2025 report, generating $51.1 million in annual revenue and surpassing Miami Beach's historic Joe's Stone Crab on the national list, as Hoodline previously reported.
Casa Neos now joins a Miami River corridor that has steadily shifted from industrial shipping use into a dense strip of waterfront nightlife and dining, alongside established neighbors like Seaspice, which opened in 2013, and Kiki on the River, which opened in 2017, according to the South Florida Business Journal. Redevelopment along North and South River Drive has drawn high-density commercial and residential projects to the area, positioning the river as a direct competitor to South Beach and Brickell for Miami's high-end dining dollars.
