The Short Rib Dosa costs $21, the Kerala Lamb is $26, and Ghee Wynwood starts dinner with a useful early-evening window: happy hour runs daily from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The restaurant is Niven Patel’s current Wynwood outpost, at 63 NW 24th St, where his farm-driven Indian cooking is served in a larger version of Ghee’s intimate, home-like setting. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m, with later closing on Friday and Saturday. The practical choice is to arrive for the bar or dining room happy hour, then settle in for dishes that draw on local ingredients and produce associated with Rancho Patel in Homestead. Mondays offer a different proposition altogether: three courses and 13 family-style dishes for $50 per person.
Karpo can check the current hours and live wait before you set out, then suggest a nearby Wynwood backup if the timing is poor.
Ghee Wynwood keeps Patel’s cooking close to the farm
Ghee Wynwood is the east-side outpost of chef Niven Patel and business partner Mohamed Alkassar’s Feal Hospitality. Its cooking is explicitly tied to a farm-to-table approach, with local ingredients and produce associated with Rancho Patel in Homestead. That gives the menu a clear point of view without making the meal feel like a lecture about provenance. The food remains the reason to come: familiar Indian forms, bright vegetables, dosa, curry and rice, handled with enough care to make a dinner feel composed rather than hurried.
The Wynwood restaurant followed the closure of the original Design District Ghee during the pandemic. The first Ghee opened in Downtown Dadeland in 2017, but the operating restaurant now sits on NW 24th Street. That distinction matters when looking for a restaurant near me in Miami, since the old Design District address is no longer the place to go. The current room was designed to retain Ghee’s home-like character at a larger scale, with a mural titled “Abundance II” and space for a full evening rather than a quick stop.
Order the dosa, lamb and papaya salad before dessert
The Short Rib Dosa is the most direct expression of Ghee’s meat-and-dosa combination. It costs $21 and is served on a Yukon dosa. The Kerala Lamb, at $26, brings coconut, curry leaf and turmeric together in a curry served with basmati rice. For a lighter opening, the Green Papaya Salad is $17, with peanuts, sesame and a jaggery dressing; it is a bright vegan starter that gives the meal some lift before the richer plates arrive.
Finish with the Warm Sticky Date Cake for $14, paired with jaggery toffee and ginger ice cream. These are the useful reference points for the current published menu, rather than a promise to cover every dish. Uttapam does not appear on that Wynwood menu, so it should not be treated as the centre of the visit. The sensible order is to choose one of the dosa or curry dishes, add the salad if the table wants something fresh, and leave room for the listed dessert.
The warm room makes early dinner and happy hour worthwhile
Inside, a large elephant mural rises behind warmly lit tables, with jewel-toned fabrics, patterned furniture and pools of golden light creating a close, colourful view distinct from the street scene. The room seats 120 people in total: 110 in the dining room and 10 at the bar. It is a larger restaurant than the original Ghee concept, but the design still aims for an intimate, home-like feeling rather than a bare, high-turnover dining room.
Happy hour runs every day from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at both the bar and in the dining room, with 50% off cocktails and wine by the glass. It is described as popular, so the early slot is worth treating as a timing decision rather than an afterthought. Dinner service begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and runs until 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday go later, until 11:00 p.m., making them the latest-running nights.
Monday is the night for a shared tasting menu
Monday changes the rhythm of the restaurant. The $50-per-person tasting menu consists of three courses and 13 dishes served family-style. That format suits a table that wants to try broadly without deciding every plate from scratch. It also gives the restaurant a different role in the week: less about selecting a few signature orders and more about settling into a sequence built for sharing.
The tasting menu is the clearest reason to choose Monday over another night, while the daily happy hour remains available from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The published information does not state how far ahead reservations open, so bookings should be made through OpenTable rather than assumed. For a quieter plan, an early reservation may align with the beginning of dinner service. For a later meal, Friday and Saturday provide the longest published hours, though the happy-hour window ends at 7:00 p.m.
Use NW 24th Street as the arrival point
Ghee Wynwood is at 63 NW 24th St, Miami, FL 33127. The MIAWYNW City of Miami–Wynwood bus route serves NW 2nd Avenue at NW 24th Street, close to the restaurant. That makes the intersection a useful public-transport reference when planning the last part of the journey. Karpo can check the route before you leave, which is especially useful when the question is not simply where the restaurant is, but whether the journey suits the timing of a reservation.
OpenTable lists no dedicated parking for the restaurant. The Wynwood BID parking map shows nearby paid lots on NW 23rd, NW 25th, NW 26th, NW 27th and NW 28th streets. In practice, it is better to identify a paid lot before arrival than to rely on finding a space directly outside. Reservations are available through OpenTable, and the published pages do not say how far ahead those bookings open.
Choose Ghee when the meal matters more than a quick stop
Bakan is the nearby alternative when the group wants Mexican food, indoor-outdoor seating, an open-view kitchen and a large mezcal-and-tequila selection. Ghee is the more focused choice for a seated Indian dinner, particularly if the table wants the Short Rib Dosa, Kerala Lamb or Monday’s family-style menu. Neither option needs a grand claim attached to it; they simply suit different evenings. Ghee asks for a little more attention to timing, especially if happy hour is part of the plan.
Zak the Baker offers another nearby change of pace, with a Wynwood kosher bakery and café known for made-from-scratch breads, pastries, sandwiches and soups. It makes sense for a bakery or café visit rather than the dinner occasion Ghee is built around. Ghee’s strengths are its farm-driven cooking, the warm mural-filled room, and the useful spread between a daily drinks offer and a structured Monday tasting menu. The tradeoff is simple: choose Bakan for its Mexican room and drinks list, Zak for bakery food, and Ghee for Indian cooking at dinner.
- Address: 63 NW 24th St, Miami, FL 33127, in Wynwood.
- Hours: Dinner only, Sunday–Thursday 5:30–10:00 p.m.; Friday–Saturday 5:30–11:00 p.m.
- Happy hour: Daily, 5:00–7:00 p.m., at the bar and in the dining room, with 50% off cocktails and wine by the glass.
- Reservations: Available through OpenTable; published pages do not state how far ahead bookings open.
- Getting there: The MIAWYNW route serves NW 2nd Avenue at NW 24th Street; nearby paid lots are shown on several surrounding streets.
- Price signals: Green Papaya Salad $17, Short Rib Dosa $21, Kerala Lamb $26, Warm Sticky Date Cake $14, and Monday tasting menu $50 per person.
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