Walrus Rodeo

Walrus Rodeo occupies a storefront at 5143 NE 2nd Avenue, on the strip of NE 2nd that runs north out of the Design District into Little Haiti — the City of Miami assigns this address to its Little Haiti district. The restaurant is built around a wood-fired oven and describes its own cooking on its site as unique contemporary wood-fired cuisine, with the explicit note that it is not just a pizzeria. Service is dinner only, 5:30pm to 10:30pm, seven nights a week, per Google Places on 2026-08-12.

The alcohol-free build documented at the restaurant is the Rodeo Limonada: strawberry, orgeat and lime. It is deliberately simple, and the orgeat is what makes it work — almond syrup gives a non-alcoholic drink body and a slightly savoury edge that a straight fruit-and-citrus build does not have, which is why the same ingredient turns up in serious zero-proof lists across the city. RESIDENT documented the drink in its December 2025 survey of twenty Miami venues, writing that Walrus Rodeo keeps things straightforward and calling the result a refreshing, approachable drink and an easygoing way to take part in Dry January while still having something well made. The venue's own site does not publish a beverage list online beyond linked PDFs, and no telephone number is published in Google's listing, so neither is recorded here. Only one named alcohol-free drink is documented, so the programme is graded as real but modest — but it is one of very few verified options in the blocks north of the Design District, where the registry is otherwise thin. The neighbourhood label is worth explaining, because published coverage is inconsistent about it: the venue is variously described as Little River, Little Haiti and Design District in press write-ups. The City of Miami's own neighbourhood assignment for the point at 5143 NE 2nd Avenue is Little Haiti, which is what this entry records, rather than the street-level guess. Practically, the restaurant is a short drive north of the Design District and sits on the same corridor as Boia De and Sunny's, both already carried here.