Solei Makes $5 Rosé a South Beach Survival Strategy

Fresh off its glow-up, the Kimpton Surfcomber’s beach club makes a strong case for day drinking.

By Eric Barton
6:18 a.m. ET, July 13, 2026

AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.

At 3 p.m. every day, Solei Beach Club drops glasses of rosé to $5, turns up the DJ, and unleashes a bubble shower over the crowd. It’s a fairly efficient summary of the new South Beach restaurant: seafood, sun, and just enough spectacle to remind everyone they’re still on Collins Avenue.

Solei is now at the renovated Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel, taking over 11,500 square feet between the hotel pool and its stretch of Atlantic beachfront. The club is open to the public, with 75 restaurant seats, shaded tables beneath a thatched palapa, cabanas facing the pool, plus beach chairs and umbrellas available to rent on the sand.

Solei Beach Club Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel South Beach Miami SoleiRose

It’s $5 rosé at 3 everyday

The menu comes from chef Gastón Javier Sanchez, whose Cuban and Spanish roots help explain the loose Mediterranean premise. Sanchez grew up cooking with his grandmothers, later studied culinary arts and business administration, apprenticed in Michelin-starred kitchens, and worked as a private chef.

Smaller plates include the Roman-style flatbread pinsa, shrimp ajillo cooked in garlic-dill Chardonnay butter, and chicken drumettes glazed with Malta and lime. The mezze board spreads pimento hummus, cilantro tzatziki, pistachio-mint whipped feta, falafel, crispy halloumi, grilled vegetables, olives, and pita across the table.

Pinsa

Larger dishes include seafood paella, a pastirma steak, and wild salmon crusted in black and white sesame seeds, served with herbed tahini, mint oil, pomegranate, pine nuts, and spiced cauliflower. There are also lobster rolls, pizzas, Key lime pie, and a Basque-style pistachio cheesecake.

Seafood paella

Pastirma

The bar handles the necessary beach-club business with the frozen Passion Du Solei, a mezcal-and-tequila Spicy Señorita, and the Ibiza Sunset with strawberry, passion fruit, and lime. Solei also has a private-label DAOU rosé, the bottle behind that daily 3 p.m. ritual.

Pistachio cheesecake

Solei is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the bar continuing until 6. That leaves exactly three hours after the bubble shower to decide whether another $5 rosé counts as participation or simply good planning.