If you have searched for All Day in Miami and been given an address on North Miami Avenue, the useful thing to know before you walk there is that the shop closed in 2023. What replaced it in the search results is a great deal of writing about a café that no longer serves coffee, and that gap is worth closing properly.
Maps and old guides still list a downtown address that has not poured a coffee in three years, which is a bad way to start a morning. Ask Karpo which downtown Miami coffee counters are actually open right now and which is closest to where you are standing.
What All Day was
All Day opened at 1035 North Miami Avenue and became, for several years, the reference point for specialty coffee in downtown Miami. Camila Ramos and Chris MacLeod ran it, the design was minimal with a distinctive neon green sign, and the espresso machine was a La Marzocco large enough to be remarked on nationally.
More importantly it was a community anchor in a part of the city that did not have one. Downtown Miami in the late 2010s was construction sites, nightclubs and very little in between, and a good café that opened in the morning and treated people like regulars filled a genuine hole. That is why it is still talked about.
It closed in 2023. The neighbourhood around it was in the middle of years of heavy tower construction, which is a difficult environment for a business that depends on people walking past in the morning.
The 2026 pop-up
In March 2026 Ramos and MacLeod returned to the original space for a two-day pop-up on the twentieth and twenty-first, serving the drinks the shop was known for. The timing was pointed — the towers behind the site had finished, and downtown had emerged from the dust and hoarding that characterised the years around the closure.
It was two days. It was not a reopening, and at the time of writing there is no permanent shop at that address. Treat the pop-up as what it was: a signal that the founders are still around and that the neighbourhood has changed enough to be worth another look, not as a place you can visit.
If a permanent return happens it will be well publicised, because the affection for this shop in Miami's coffee community is genuine and considerable. It is worth checking rather than assuming, in either direction.
Where to actually get coffee downtown now
The good news is that the situation that made All Day remarkable has partly resolved itself. Downtown and the blocks immediately north now have several real options, which was not true in 2019.
Vice City Bean on North Miami Avenue, a little further north in the Arts and Entertainment District, runs 7am to 6pm daily and is the closest direct equivalent — a proper specialty counter in the awkward stretch between downtown and Wynwood, with further locations in Brickell and Wynwood.
Panther Coffee, the city's founding specialty roaster since 2010, has rooms in Wynwood, Little Haiti, MiMo and Coconut Grove. None is downtown proper, but the Wynwood shop at 2390 NW 2nd Avenue is a short ride and is open 7am to 7pm daily.
And the option most visitors overlook entirely: the ventanitas. Downtown and the surrounding blocks are full of walk-up windows selling cafecito and cortadito for a couple of dollars, and on a hot morning when what you actually want is caffeine rather than a sit-down, that is both the cheapest and the most local answer available.
Why this keeps happening
Miami loses restaurants and cafés at a rate that surprises people from other cities, and the reasons are structural rather than about quality. Rents rise quickly, development cycles disrupt foot traffic for years at a time, and the seasonal swing between winter crowds and a very quiet summer makes cash flow difficult for small independents.
The practical consequence for anyone eating or drinking their way around this city is that a guide written eighteen months ago is not reliable, and a search result is not evidence that a door is open. Checking before travelling across town is not paranoia here; it is the normal cost of doing business in a city that rebuilds itself continuously.
It is also why the places that do last — the ones running since 1974 or 2010 — get talked about with a particular kind of loyalty. Continuity is scarce, and people notice it.
What made the room worth remembering
It is worth being specific about why a closed coffee shop still generates this much conversation, because it was not only about the coffee. All Day was one of a small number of places downtown that operated on daytime hours in a district organised around nightlife, and that alone made it useful.
The design was deliberately bright and pared back — pale surfaces, a tropical palette, the neon sign — at a moment when Miami cafés were mostly either Cuban windows or hotel lobbies. And the breakfast sandwiches had a following independent of the coffee programme, which is not something most specialty shops manage.
The broader point for anyone building a coffee route through this city is that the interesting rooms tend to be the ones solving a specific local problem rather than importing a template. All Day solved daytime downtown. Vice City Bean solves the gap on the way to Wynwood. The ventanitas solve speed and price. Working out which problem you have is more useful than working out which shop has the best beans.
Practical notes
All Day closed its shop at 1035 North Miami Avenue in 2023 and there is no permanent location as of now; the March 2026 appearance was a two-day pop-up on the twentieth and twenty-first, not a reopening. Search results and older guides still list the old address — check before travelling. Closest current alternatives: Vice City Bean at 1657 North Miami Avenue, 7am to 6pm daily, with further counters in Brickell, Wynwood and The Citadel; and Panther Coffee in Wynwood at 2390 NW 2nd Avenue, 7am to 7pm daily. For a fast, cheap and more local option, use the ventanitas downtown for a cafecito or cortadito.
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Downtown Miami changes fast enough that a café you read about last year may not exist, which makes a live answer more useful here than a list. Ask Karpo which coffee counters near downtown are open right now, which is closest to where you are, and whether there is a ventanita within a block if you would rather have a cafecito and keep walking.
