12 June 25 - July 1, 2026 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | CULTURE | NIGHT+DAY | NEWS | LETTERS | CONTENTS | FRIDAY 6.26 FRIDAY 6.26 MIZ BEHAVIN’ 8PM MIZ BEHAVIN’ 8PM SATURDAY 6.27 SATURDAY 6.27 JEFF LLOYD DUO 3PM JEFF LLOYD DUO 3PM UNLIMITED DEVOTION 8PM UNLIMITED DEVOTION 8PM SUNDAY 6.28 SUNDAY 6.28 JOHN PATTERSON TRIO 2PM JOHN PATTERSON TRIO 2PM SATURDAY 7.4 SATURDAY 7.4 SIERRA LANE DUO 3PM SIERRA LANE DUO 3PM GIO CHAMBA 8PM GIO CHAMBA 8PM SUNDAY 7.5 SUNDAY 7.5 CLEMENT AUBREY 2PM CLEMENT AUBREY 2PM FRIDAY 7.10 FRIDAY 7.10 THE SAMANTHA RUSSELL BAND 8PM THE SAMANTHA RUSSELL BAND 8PM SUNDAY 7.12 SUNDAY 7.12 JOEY TENUTO JR – TRIO 2PM JOEY TENUTO JR – TRIO 2PM FRIDAY 7.17 FRIDAY 7.17 JUTT HUFFMAN SINGLE RELEASE JUTT HUFFMAN SINGLE RELEASE “SMOOTH SAILING” 8PM “SMOOTH SAILING” 8PM SATURDAY 7.18 SATURDAY 7.18 TASTY VIBRATIONS TRIO 3PM TASTY VIBRATIONS TRIO 3PM ANDREW MORRIS BAND 8PM ANDREW MORRIS BAND 8PM SUNDAY 7.19 SUNDAY 7.19 MICHAEL LEBON 2PM MICHAEL LEBON 2PM FRIDAY 7.24 FRIDAY 7.24 SPIDER CHERRY 8PM SPIDER CHERRY 8PM miaminewtimes.com MIAMI NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | METRO | RIPTIDE | LETTERS | CONTENTS | pulled into a salsa set: “for a little while we’re carefree college kids again.” Miami’s last entries on the Esquire list came in 2024, when Medium Cool in South Beach and Kaiju at the Citadel food hall in Little River both made the cut. Ball & Chain. 1513 SW Eighth St., Miami; ballandchainmiami.com. OLEE FOWLER ▼ MIAMI BEACH PLOT TWIST Longtime fans of Miami Beach restaurants, we have some good news. New Times has been covering plenty of restaurant closures lately, and for good rea- son. So many of these institutions closing are ones customers would call their second home. From the early-June announcement of Mr Chow’s sudden closure to Segafredo’s clo- sure after 26 years, the South Beach we once knew is now gone. However, as luck would have it, a beloved South Beach restaurant has found a new home. Three weeks after announcing the June 30 closure of its South of Fifth home, Santorini by Georgios owner Georgios Vogiatzis re- vealed on Monday, June 8, that the family- run Greek restaurant is moving to the Gale South Beach at 1690 Collins Ave., keeping the restaurant on South Beach while moving it from the quiet southern tip to the heart of the Art Deco district. Fans helped seal the deal. When Vogiatzis shared the news of the closure in May, follow- ers sent condolences and went out scouting for spaces. “Some of you did something I will never forget,” he wrote in an Instagram post on June 8. “You went out yourselves, looking for spaces, sending me places, sending me your research, dreaming with me about where we bring our beautiful Santorini next. Who does this? Only family does this.” After a decade, some of his customers truly have become more like family. Vogiatzis, who grew up on the Greek is- land of Thassos in a family of restaurateurs, opened the restaurant in 2015 inside the Hil- ton Bentley South Beach, when he says the corner at 101 Ocean Dr. looked nothing like it does today. The decade brought flaming saga- naki, grilled octopus, lamb chops, whole fish, and enough Opa!-ing to rattle the hotel’s win- dows. When the May announcement landed, regulars were shaken. “We got married here! 10 years ago! We will miss it,” wrote one fol- lower. A neighbor who had just relocated to South of Fifth was more blunt: “Oh man, just when we moved to the neighborhood and found our favorite happy hour!” Vogiatzis was clear that the decision had nothing to do with business. “Even with so many 40 to 50 million dollar restaurants opening left and right around us, you kept choosing us, season after season, year af- ter year,” he wrote at the time. The move was about finding a space where Santo- rini could grow with- out constraint. He referenced the idea of filoxenia, the Greek concept of hospitality as an act of love, and said he wouldn’t open somewhere that asked him to do it differently. No opening timeline has been announced for the Gale hotel debut. Vogiatzis says fans won’t have to wait for the finished space to follow along. “I do not want to just show you the finished home,” he wrote. “I want to take you along with me, every step of the way. The good days, the hard days, the dust and the dreaming, all of it.” He ended on that note. “We did not build a restaurant together. We built a home.” The Fort Lauderdale outpost at 4 W. Las Olas Blvd., opened in February 2026 with the same Mediterranean cuisine and a riverfront setting, is still running while the Collins Ave space comes together. Santorini by Georgios. At 101 Ocean Dr., Mi- ami Beach through June 30, and at the Gale South Beach, 1690 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; santorinibygeorgios.com. Also at 4 W. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; @santorinibygeor- giosfl. OLEE FOWLER Santorini by Georgios photo Beloved South Beach restaurant Santorini by Georgios won’t close after heartbroken fans helped it find a new location at the Gale South Beach. THE MOVE WAS ABOUT FINDING A SPACE WHERE SANTORINI COULD GROW WITHOUT CONSTRAINT.
