Sip 305

Sip 305 occupies a small storefront at 636 SW 109th Avenue in Sweetwater, the Miami-Dade municipality next to Florida International University's main campus, and it is built for the hours that campus keeps. The shop opens at 7:30am and does not close until midnight from Sunday through Thursday, or 1am on Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the few places in west Miami-Dade where a group can sit down over a drink late at night without walking into a bar. Google Places lists the venue as serving no beer, no wine and no cocktails, and the company's own site carries no alcohol anywhere on the menu; the offer is coffee, soda, matcha, smoothies, milkshakes and cookies, full stop.

The drinks are organised as named house builds rather than as a standard cafe list. The coffee section runs to the Macklemore (vanilla and creamer), the Caramelcita (caramel and creamer), the Caramel Bean (caramel, vanilla and creamer), the Tuscan Trifle (tiramisu and creamer), the Cinnabon (cinnamon, white chocolate and creamer), the Cookie Dough (cookie dough, white chocolate and creamer) and the S'more (marshmallow and hazelnut and creamer), plus a Chai Latte, a Matcha Latte, a straight Cuban Coffee served as a sweetened double shot, and a Choyo Coffee that lets a guest pick a coffee style, two flavours and a creamer. Beyond the coffees the menu is split into Sunshine Sodas, Red Bulls, milkshakes, smoothies and a Lite & Fresh section, and the kitchen turns out cookie sandwiches filled with Nutella or cookie dough. A second Sip 305 operates at 9605 N Kendall Drive in Kendall, open from 6am to midnight daily. No press coverage of the shop was found at a verifiable URL, so none is quoted here. The address itself sits inside the City of Sweetwater rather than unincorporated Miami-Dade, confirmed against the US Census geocoder rather than taken from the mailing address, which is why the neighbourhood is recorded here as Sweetwater and not Westchester. For a catalogue of Miami that is heavy on kava lounges and hotel bars, this is a different kind of entry: a plain, late-opening drinks counter next to a large university campus, where nobody is drinking and nobody is expected to. Hours, business status and the absence of beer, wine and cocktail service were all taken from Google Places on 2026-08-12 and the drink names from the shop's own menu page the same day.