Best Happy Hours
Five Aventura happy-hour starts: a casual local bar, Mediterranean snacks, Spanish tapas, steakhouse bites, and a resort-adjacent drink.
Tap 42 is the straightforward after-work room: craft cocktails, a deep tap list, and casual food that turns a first round into dinner. Go when the group wants an easy, unfussy happy hour. The draw is the range, from drinks to burgers and salads, without making everyone agree on a full dinner plan.
- Best when: after-work craft drinks and casual food
- Area: Aventura
- Specific: craft cocktails, full tap list, burgers, salads, and casual food
Motek's mall-level patio is the spot for a lighter early-evening start — Mediterranean snacks and a glass of the house sangria before the night gets going. Go when you want a pre-dinner bite rather than a bar scene. Indoor and outdoor seating sits right by the Slide Tower.
- Best when: Mediterranean snacks and a pre-dinner drink
- Area: lower level, Aventura Mall (by the Slide Tower)
- Specific: indoor/outdoor seating; house White Wine Pomegranate Sangria
Bulla runs a daily happy hour from 4–7pm, which makes it the easy answer when sangria and tapas beat a full dinner. Go when you want shared plates with the drink special. The lively bar and patio carry the room when it fills up.
- Best when: sangria, tapas, and shared plates
- Area: Aventura
- Specific: daily happy hour 4–7pm; bar and patio seating
STK runs a dedicated happy hour and late-night social hour in its high-energy lounge — the dressier choice for polished bar bites and signature cocktails near the mall. Go when you want a steakhouse bar without committing to the full dinner. The happy-hour menu is posted on the official page.
- Best when: polished bar bites and cocktails near the mall
- Area: Aventura Mall / Biscayne Blvd
- Specific: dedicated happy-hour and late-night social-hour menus
Bourbon Steak's chic lounge is the one-good-cocktail pick — a classic drink and a seat from the 850-plus-wine list before dinner, or Michael Mina's Bar Burgers if you stay. Go when the round matters more than the deal. It's inside the JW Marriott Turnberry.
- Best when: one proper cocktail in a chic lounge
- Area: JW Marriott Miami Turnberry
- Specific: 850+ wine list; Michael Mina's Bar Burgers at the bar