CocoWalk

This guide to CocoWalk in Coconut Grove opens on an ordinary 1990s Saturday night crowd, then traces how developer Yaromir Steiner bet the sleepy, bohemian Grove on an untested roofless, wall-less plaza that opened in 1990 and spawned six copycat versions across South Florida within a decade. It follows the bars that packed the plaza and then vanished, and the changes of ownership that followed once Miami Beach pulled the crowds away. Picture the parrot on a passerby's shoulder and the roasted almonds in the air as you walk through.