Miami from above: Sugar sits forty floors up at EAST with an open-air Asian garden and a 3am license, TULUM runs a ninety-metre infinity pool at the W, and the Beach answers with Watr at the 1 and MILA's fire dancers. Terras is the only rooftop in Little Havana and Sipsip pours Caribbean rum on the Mayfair roof in the Grove. Call ahead about cigars, none of these rooms publish a policy.
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Forty floors up with trees on the deck and the whole Brickell skyline wrapped around you. It stays busy every night of the week and runs until three on weekends, the rooftop everyone else in Miami is measured against.
Pip’s Tip 40th floor Asian garden, open till 3am Thu–Sat
A pink-and-green terrace twenty-two floors above Brickell with a pool, Latin-leaning plates and a DJ once the sun drops. Sunday afternoons up here are one of the better ways to end a Miami weekend.
Pip’s Tip Pink-and-green terrace, 22 floors up
A ninety-metre infinity pool on the fifteenth floor, which is a strange and wonderful thing to swim in with Biscayne Bay on one side and the Brickell towers on the other. Daytime rooftop rather than a night one.
Pip’s Tip 90-metre infinity pool
A supper club with a retractable roof that opens over the room at exactly the right moment in the night. The dress code is real and enforced at the door, jacket-optional, sneakers-not.
Pip’s Tip Retractable roof, dress code enforced
Sixteen floors above the mouth of the Miami River, with sustainable seafood and a terrace that catches the breeze coming off the bay. The most grown-up rooftop downtown.
Pip’s Tip River mouth and bay views, 16 floors up
A multi-level rooftop above Wynwood with the murals below and the downtown skyline on the horizon. Big, loud, good on a Saturday, and easy to fold into a night that starts in the galleries.
Pip’s Tip Three levels above Wynwood
The pool deck on top of Wynwood's first hotel, with skyline views on two sides and a monthly afrobeats party that pulls a genuinely mixed Miami crowd. Best rooftop in the neighborhood for actually hearing each other.
Pip’s Tip Pool deck with monthly afrobeats nights
On top of the restored Moore building, looking out over the Design District's low roofline toward the bay. Quieter than the Wynwood rooftops, and a good landing spot after dinner on 40th.
Pip’s Tip Above the Design District
Perched over Biscayne Bay in Edgewater with king crab, a serious raw bar and one of the few unobstructed water-level sunsets on the mainland. Book it for the light, stay for the shellfish.
Pip’s Tip Bayfront, seafood and king crab
Eighteen floors up at 1 Hotel with the Atlantic filling the entire east side and a Japanese-Peruvian menu that holds up on its own. The best straight ocean view of any rooftop on the Beach.
Pip’s Tip 18 floors above the sand
An open-air rooftop on Lincoln Road doing Mediterranean-Japanese cooking, with the lights dropping and fire dancers appearing sometime after eleven. Theatrical in a way that works better than it should.
Pip’s Tip Mediterrasian rooftop, fire dancers late
A pool, a Mexican kitchen and a DJ above Washington Avenue, in a hotel built for exactly this. Day-drinking turns into night-drinking here without anybody having to make a decision.
Pip’s Tip Rooftop pool, Mexican kitchen
A small rooftop over Española Way, largely for hotel guests, which is precisely why it's calm at seven on a Saturday. Come up before dinner, then walk downstairs into the block.
Pip’s Tip Small, above Española Way
A fourth-floor pool bar in the middle of Collins Avenue, low enough to still feel like the street, high enough to escape it. Reliable sunset spot with a walk-up crowd.
Pip’s Tip Fourth-floor pool deck on Collins
The Fontainebleau's open-air, beach-level terrace, rosé, ceviche and the ocean twenty feet away. It closes at six, which makes it the afternoon half of a Mid-Beach day rather than the night.
Pip’s Tip Beachfront, daytime only
A calypso rum bar on the sixth floor of the Mayfair, surrounded by Coconut Grove's tree canopy instead of a skyline. Jerk-spiced plates, long rum list, and the best-smelling rooftop in the city.
Pip’s Tip Caribbean rum bar on the Mayfair roof
Six floors above Main Highway with views out over the Grove toward the water. Neighborhood-scaled and unhurried, the anti-Brickell rooftop.
Pip’s Tip Above Main Highway in the Grove
A rooftop above Giralda Avenue's restaurant row, looking down on one of the few real pedestrian streets in Miami-Dade. Gables-appropriate: civilized, well-dressed, no velvet rope.
Pip’s Tip On the Giralda restaurant row
Little Havana's only real rooftop, on top of the Life House with the downtown towers to the east and Calle Ocho below. Start here at four, be on Eighth Street by seven.
Pip’s Tip The only rooftop in Little Havana
Above the food hall that anchors Little River, with a pool, a long bar and a crowd that skews local rather than visiting. Eat downstairs, drink upstairs, and you've done the neighborhood properly.
Pip’s Tip Above the Citadel food hall
Forty floors above Brickell in an open-air Asian garden, and it holds the room till 3am Thursday through Saturday.
Rooftops are one chapter of Pip's Lifestyle, find the lounges, whiskey bars, jazz clubs and the Domino Club below.
