Papi Steak

Papi Steak trades at 736 1st Street in South Beach, in the South of Fifth pocket a few blocks back from Ocean Drive, in what RESIDENT describes as a high-energy setting. It opens for dinner only, from 6pm every night, closing at 10pm early in the week, 11:30pm on Thursday and 11pm on Friday and Saturday.

The reason the restaurant belongs in an alcohol-free catalogue is the Elixir De Alma, which is a properly built drink rather than a token juice. It combines lychee, cucumber and lime with Almave Blue Agave Spirit — the distilled non-alcoholic agave spirit made from cooked blue agave, not a flavoured syrup — and finishes with spicy bitters. The result has an agave backbone, a cooling cucumber middle and a peppery finish, which is exactly the profile a guest ordering off a steakhouse list is likely to want. RESIDENT documented the drink in its December 2025 Miami round-up and wrote that the result is structured and refreshing, and that it offers a zero-proof option that still aligns with the restaurant's high-energy atmosphere. Almave is not currently carried in this catalogue's brand registry, so the spirit is named in the drink specification without a brand tag. Only one named alcohol-free build is published for the venue, so the programme is graded as real but modest; the restaurant can be reached on (305) 800-7274 and posts as @papisteak. Two practical notes for a first visit. Business status, hours and the telephone number all come from Google Places on 2026-08-12, and the drink specification from RESIDENT's December 2025 survey; the restaurant's own site does not publish a beverage list. And because the restaurant opens at 6pm and no earlier, there is no daytime option here; South of Fifth's alternatives for an alcohol-free drink before dinner are limited, and the nearest documented options in this catalogue are on Collins Avenue further north.