Harbour Club's ground-floor restaurant in Miami Beach's Sunset Harbour neighborhood is already serving the public breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch, and come November 10, it will add dinner service for the first time, running 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. The newly imagined dining room at 1766 Bay Road seats 80 guests indoors, with wraparound bistro-style seating outside overlooking the neighborhood.
The restaurant's daytime menus come from pastry chef Antonio Bachour, while executive chef Bogdan Danila takes over for dinner, according to Haute Living. The ground-floor dining room is open to the public for breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Friday, with extended brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, the outlet reports. Danila brings more than 20 years in Michelin-starred and fine-dining kitchens across Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, having served as chef de cuisine at Gordon Ramsay's Restaurant Petrus in London and led The Clocktower at the Edition Hotel in New York to one Michelin star.
Before landing at Harbour Club, Danila was culinary director of Boca Raton's Broken Sound Club through its $40 million renovation and reopening, per the same account. The repositioning of Harbour Club's restaurant and members-only clubhouse upstairs follows the direction of club owners Frankie Santos and Luis Simoes, Haute Living notes.
What's Actually on the Dinner Menu
The new dinner concept leans into raw-bar offerings and tableside theater. The menu opens with oysters served with margarita ice and hamachi with passion fruit, the article notes, while tableside moments include a Caesar salad prepared in front of diners and a shrimp martini presented from a rolling martini cart.
Mains range from whole roasted Florida snapper Veracruz and Dover sole meunière to spiny lobster rigatoni and a 32-ounce dry-aged ribeye built for two, according to the same report. Sauces on offer include béarnaise, café de paris, and a Harbour Club hot sauce. Danila said the restaurant will celebrate exceptional ingredients, refined European cuisine and Miami's spirit, per Haute Living's account.
Before the Overhaul: A'Riva, Palm Room and Nikai
The space wasn't always set up this way. Before the current concept, Harbour Club housed three distinct food operations — the public Italian-Mediterranean restaurant a'Riva, the members-only Palm Room, and the members-only Japanese restaurant Nikai — as Eater Miami reported. Under that earlier arrangement, a'Riva was open to the public by reservation, while the full Harbour Club experience required membership, Eater Miami noted.
Membership pricing at Harbour Club has been reported inconsistently across outlets. Miami New Times described three tiers — Classic, Under 30 and Lifetime Founding — with annual fees starting at $5,000. The Miami Herald, by contrast, reported five membership levels starting at $2,400 annually and rising to a one-time dual membership of $55,000, while Robb Report put a signature membership at $2,500 a year plus a $5,000 initiation fee, with a lifetime founding membership at a one-time $40,000 initiation fee. The discrepancies remain unresolved across the three accounts.
Part of a Bigger Private-Club Wave
Harbour Club's restaurant relaunch lands amid a broader run of Miami private-club openings. Miami New Times pointed to recent debuts like ZZ's Club, Casa Neos and MM Club as evidence the city has cemented its reputation as a destination for exclusive experiences. In Sunset Harbour specifically, the neighborhood dining scene already includes A Pasta Bar and Carrot Express, per Haute Living's reporting.
Whatever shakes out on the membership front, the new dinner hours open the ground-floor dining room to a wider swath of diners who simply want a seat at the table — oysters, martini cart and all — without needing a membership card to get breakfast, lunch or brunch at Harbour Club.
