Miami is home to some of the best rum cocktails around – and the city’s sensational rum drinks are creations inspired by the sweet spirit’s diversity – silver, spiced, dark, aged or over-proofed.
White or silver rum is great in a mixed cocktail, such as in tropical drink favorites – Cuba Libre, Daiquiri, Pina Colada and Mojito.
For a spirit-forward cocktail, a barrel-aged dark or gold rum can stand-in for any traditional whiskey-based cocktail—such as an Old Fashioned or Manhattan.
We put together this exotic selection of rum cocktails collected from bars in, and around, Miami:
Coco Loco at Seaspice
Ingredients: Whole Thai coconut, Havana Club Rum mixed with the coconut water.
422 NW North River Drive, Miami (River District), seaspicemiami.com
Velvet Slipper at Beaker & Gray
Ingredients: Plantation 3 Star rum, Velvet Falernum, banana, coconut cream and pineapple.
2637 N Miami Avenue, Miami (Wynwood District), beakerandgray.com
Lured to Mykonos at Kiki on the River
Ingredients: Bacardi 8-year Rum with Falernum Aperol, pineapple coconut juice and creole bitters; garnished with toasted coconut shavings and dried pineapple.
450 NW North River Drive, Miami (River District), kikiontheriver.com
Mi Viejo at PM Fish and Steak House
Ingredients: Flor de Cana 7 Year Rum, muddled figs, honey and a splash of sparkling Fantasia Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut.
1453 S Miami Ave, Miami (Brickell), pmrestaurantes.com
Club Paradise at The Anderson Bar
Ingredients: Ron Zacapa 23, Don Q rum, and Back Room (housemade) horchata, over crushed ice, then garnished with grated nutmeg and tropical flowers.
709 NE 79th Street, Miami (Upper East Side), theandersonmiami.com
Maduro Mai Tai at Glass & Vine
Ingredients: Spiced rum, orgeat, vanilla and banana liqueur.
2820 McFarlane Road, Coconut Grove, glassandvine.com
Agua de Coco at Rusty Pelican
Ingredients: Bacardi Coconut, coconut water, coconut syrup, lime and mint.
3201 Rickenbacker Causeway, Key Biscayne, therustypelican.com
Kaizoku at Dragonfly Izakaya and Fish Market
Ingredients: Big Cypress Orange Spiced rum, Umeboshi (pickled Japanese plums), Busnel Calvados, St Elizabeth Allspice Dram, lime juice, citrus bitters and egg white.
5241 NW 87th Avenue, Doral, dragonflyrestaurants.com/doral-florida
Jyu Nana at Kuro
Ingredients: Rum, Amaro, honey and whipped cream.
1 Seminole Way, Hollywood (in Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino), seminolehardrockhollywood.com/Kuro
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