Search for the best breakfast in Miami and OTL still comes up, which is both correct and a problem. The top result will almost certainly send you to 160 NE 40th Street, where OTL spent six years and where it has not been since April 2023. The café reopened in late May 2025 about five minutes' walk away, on the ground floor of The Moore at 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, and a good deal of the internet has not caught up.
Two of the three things you need here — the address and the opening hours — are wrong in most search results, and the gap between them is a wasted morning in Design District traffic. Ask Karpo to confirm what is actually open around NE 2nd Avenue right now, what time the counter starts, and what is worth the walk once you have eaten.
The address most results give you is dead
OTL — short for Out to Lunch — opened in 2017 as a collaboration between David Grutman, whose Groot Hospitality also runs LIV and Story, the Design District's developer Craig Robins, and the team behind The Smile in New York. It ran under the slogan "Everyone Welcome" and became the neighbourhood's default breakfast counter for six years. It closed on 23 April 2023.
The old listings for 160 NE 40th Street are still indexed and still rank, and several of them are flagged closed, which reads as though the business itself has gone. It has not. The relaunch is at 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, a different street on the other side of the district. If you are navigating, use the street number rather than the name, because the name will take you to the wrong block.
What the new room actually is
The Moore occupies the restored Moore Furniture Company building, a 1920s brick-and-stone block with a tall arched central bay, now operating as a members' club and hotel. OTL sits on the ground floor and is the publicly accessible part of it. You do not need to be a member to have breakfast there, and that is the single most common misunderstanding about the new location — people see the club and assume the café is behind the same door policy.
The building is a bigger operation than the café implies — close to 90,000 square feet across a hotel, the private club, restaurants, exhibition space and design offices. OTL's job in it is to be the open front door, and the practical consequence is a ground floor with a mix you do not usually get in a hotel café: people staying upstairs, people working in the building, and people from the neighbourhood who have been coming since 2017.
The atrium beyond holds Elastika, the Zaha Hadid installation that has been in the building since the mid-2000s. It is the reason to sit in rather than take away: you are eating inside a restored furniture showroom with a landmark piece of architecture in the next room, for the price of a coffee and a sandwich.
What to order
The relaunch kept the two dishes people came back for. The Egg & Cheese Sandwich is folded egg and melted cheese with tomato aioli on brioche — the aioli is the thing that makes it work, and it is the order if you are only having one. The Avocado Toast comes with pickled onions and chilli flakes, which is a sharper and considerably less bland version of the dish than the Design District's price point usually delivers.
Beyond those: a spicy take on bagel and lox, French toast with mascarpone and maple syrup, and a chia coconut pudding with seasonal fruit that happens to be dairy-free without making a point of it. The pastry case runs croissants and pain au chocolat. It is a short menu executed properly rather than a long one executed adequately, which is the right format for a café that has to turn over a morning crowd.
The timing question
This is the part to verify rather than assume. Coverage of the reopening described breakfast running Monday to Friday from 8am to 11am — a genuinely narrow window — while current listings show a longer daily service. Both have plausibly been true at different points since the relaunch, because the hours have moved. Confirm on the day you are going, and if you are planning to arrive after eleven on a weekday, confirm twice.
The practical read is to treat OTL as a morning appointment rather than a fallback. The Design District garages fill from mid-morning, the walk in from the 2nd Avenue garages is short, and the neighbourhood's shops do not open until eleven — so an early sitting means you eat properly and then step out into a district that is still quiet, which is the version of this neighbourhood worth having.
What to do with the hour after
The district is built for exactly this sequence and almost nobody runs it in the right order. The Institute of Contemporary Art sits at 61 NE 41st Street, a few blocks from The Moore, and admission is free every day it opens — Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, closed Monday and Tuesday. Eat at nine, walk over at eleven, and you have had a proper breakfast and a museum before most of the city has finished parking.
The trap is running it the other way round. By one in the afternoon the Design District is full, the garages are stacked, and OTL's counter has either switched over or shut. On a Monday or Tuesday the museum is closed outright, which makes those the mornings to eat and then simply walk instead — the district's courtyards and public spaces are open, free and close to empty before eleven, and they are the reason the neighbourhood is worth the trip on a weekday at all.
Practical notes
4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Design District, on the ground floor of The Moore. Not 160 NE 40th Street — that address closed in April 2023 and still ranks. No membership is required for the café. Breakfast is the core service and the hours have shifted since the May 2025 reopening, so check the same morning rather than trusting a listing. Order at the counter; there is seating inside and a few tables on the pavement. The Elastika installation in the atrium is free to walk in and look at. Nearest paid parking is the Design District garages on NE 2nd Avenue and NE 1st Avenue, both a short walk; street parking on NE 40th is scarce after 10am.
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Ask Karpo first
The Design District is easy to get wrong in the morning — half the search results still point at OTL's old address, the shops do not open until eleven, and the garages fill faster than the pavement suggests. Ask Karpo what is genuinely open around NE 2nd Avenue right now, what time to arrive so you are not eating after the counter has switched over, and where to walk once you have finished.
