Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove is the part of Miami that predates Miami - banyans over Main Highway, sailboats at Dinner Key, a marina-and-brunch rhythm that hasn't changed much since the 80s. The CocoWalk reboot finally works, and Bombay Darbar still has the line out the door. Dates here are walks: Kennedy Park along the bay, the bookshop at the Mayfair, Monty's for a raw bar and a band that's been playing the same set for fifteen years. The crowd skews older, settled, often divorced-and-back-out - a different energy than Brickell across the bay. Tradeoff: quiet by 11, and the parking around Commodore Plaza is genuinely cursed.
Coconut Grove by the numbers
Coconut Grove runs male-heavy, about 59% men to 41% women.
Median individual income in Coconut Grove is about $57,100.
Florida registers voters by party, and Miami-Dade, long a Democratic stronghold, has flipped: where Coconut Grove sits, Republicans now lead at about 35%, to 32% Democratic and 30% no-party affiliation.
The median renter in Coconut Grove pays about $2,070 a month.
About 7,000 Coconut Grove residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Bayshore Club Bar & Grill
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Level 6 Rooftop Restaurant Miami
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Glass & Vine
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CRAFT Coconut Grove
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Amal Miami
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Sapore di Mare Italian Seafood - Coconut Grove
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bartaco
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Ariete
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Le Bouchon Du Grove
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Happy Wine in the Grove
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Casa Xabi
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The Kampong, National Tropical Botanical Garden
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The Taurus Coconut Grove