In 2012, before The Bazaar opened at the SLS in South Beach, José Andrés and his staff lived in condos inside an older tower on Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach. Amy Johnson, then general manager of the Confidante, told the Miami Herald that story in 2024. That Bazaar ran for about ten years and closed in March 2023.
The building where the team stayed is now the Andaz Miami Beach, at 4041 Collins Ave. It also holds the José Andrés Group's whole Miami Beach comeback in three rooms. Bar Centro and Aguasal opened in 2025. Bazaar Meat joined them in late October 2026. The steakhouse gets the headlines. For someone who lives a few blocks away, the building is really a price ladder. The bottom rung is a croqueta at the bar, and the top rung is a whole pig ordered a day ahead. The two 2025 rooms are the ones that fit into a normal week.
A Tower That Has Been Many Hotels
The building came before any of the restaurants. It opened in 1940 as the Lord Tarleton Hotel, designed by Victor H. Nellenbogen. Daniel Ciraldo of the Miami Design Preservation League told the Herald it was one of Miami's first Art Deco hotels, and at 14 floors one of the tallest buildings around. The Army used it during World War II. Melvin Grossman designed a nine-story addition in the 1950s, and condos were added in 2007.
The Confidante closed for construction on March 25, 2024. Sunstone Hotel Investors owns the property, and Hyatt operates it. Hyatt announced the reopening as the Andaz on May 5, 2025, with 287 rooms, 64 suites, two heated outdoor pools, a spa and three José Andrés Group dining concepts. The renovation moved check-in up to a second-floor space with ocean views and rebuilt the ground floor around places to eat and sit. That design choice explains how the three rooms work today.
The Building by the Clock
Each room covers its own part of the day, and each costs a step more than the one before.
| Room | When it's open | Typical order | Price marker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Centro | Coffee and pastries until 4 p.m., then cocktails and light bites into the night | Chicken croquetas, Key Lime Pie Daiquiri | Bites $15 to $20, cocktails around $19 to $24 |
| Aguasal | Breakfast from 7 a.m., dinner from 5 p.m. | Fried red snapper, mussels saganaki | Mains $24 to $115 |
| Bazaar Meat | Dinner only, from 5 p.m. | Dry-aged steaks, suckling pig | Steaks $54 to $150, whole pig $620 |
Bar Centro Is the Room for Weekdays
Bar Centro is where most of a neighbor's visits are likely to happen. From the morning until 4 p.m. it sells coffee, pastries and grab-and-go items. At 4 p.m. the bar opens for drinks, which run until midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. According to the José Andrés Group, the plan is to start the afternoon on the patio with ocean views and end the night inside.
The current menu keeps the bill small. Chicken croquetas cost $16, a four-cheese grilled cheese is $15, and a caviar-and-egg mollete is $20. On the drinks side, the Key Lime Pie Daiquiri is $19 and the Reverse Carajillo is $24. Hyatt's Sunset Hour page lists a happy hour Thursday through Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m., with $14 specialty cocktails and a $5 bite menu.
Of the three rooms, this is the only one you can treat as a habit rather than an occasion. On a Tuesday, a croqueta and one cocktail come to less than a single side order upstairs at the steakhouse.
Aguasal Is the Dinner You Can Repeat
Aguasal is one step up. It serves coastal Mediterranean food built around seafood, drawing on Spain, Greece and Morocco. Breakfast starts at 7 a.m. every day. Dinner runs 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
The menu covers a wide range. Shareable starters run about $12 to $36. Mains go from $24 to $115, including fried red snapper at $42, warm Maine lobster at $68 and a 16-ounce strip steak at $115. Time Out Miami gave it four out of five in September 2025, praising the two-way snapper, the mussels saganaki, the seafood platter and the Wild Thyme Daisy, a cocktail of tequila, mezcal, orange liqueur, lime, za'atar and pasilla chili that now costs $18. That same month, The Leftovers Miami estimated dinner at $80 to $110 per person and liked the snapper crudo, beef tartare and lamb chops.
Breakfast is the part of Aguasal that gets overlooked. A morning table on Collins in a 1940 Art Deco tower is a different outing from a $100-a-head dinner, and both happen in the same room.
Bazaar Meat Is the Top Rung
Bazaar Meat is the one people book ahead for. The Miami Herald's first look describes open-fire cooking centered on dry-aged steaks, in a room designed by Lazaro Rosa-Violan Studio from Spain. It has surrealist art in the spirit of Dalí and Picasso and its own entrance on Collins Avenue. Andrés told the Herald:
"With Bazaar Meat at Andaz Miami Beach, we're bringing back the joy of The Bazaar in a new way, with new surprises."
The menu has a local reference. The Cubano "air bread," made with iberico secreto, Swiss cheese espuma and dijon, is a tribute to Versailles. Other snacks include oxtail croquetas, a Hokkaido sea urchin cone and a super-giant chicharrón with Greek yogurt, wasabi and furikake. Miami Beach is the fifth Bazaar Meat. The others are in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago.
The posted prices show how high the ladder goes. Snacks run about $10 to $24 and seafood dishes $19 to $75. A flat iron steak is $54, the tenderloin $65 and the bone-in New York strip $150. The bone-in ribeye is priced at $90 to $125 per pound, Japanese wagyu at $50 to $60 per ounce, and a quarter suckling pig at $180. The whole pig is $620. There are also two tasting menus for anyone who would rather not choose.
Booking the Top Rung Without Surprises
The steakhouse has the most rules of the three rooms, so a little planning helps:
- Book through OpenTable. Reservations go through the Bazaar Meat page. The Andaz recommends dinner reservations and takes walk-ins only when there's room.
- Plan around late-week nights. Dinner runs 5 to 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Check the restaurant's page for early-week nights before you plan a Sunday or Monday.
- Order the pig a day ahead. The whole suckling pig needs 24 hours' notice, so a birthday dinner centered on it has to be arranged the day before.
- Pair it with the cheaper rooms. A drink at Bar Centro before dinner, or breakfast at Aguasal the next morning, keeps a big night in the same building at a lower total cost.
The neighborhood's first Bazaar was in South Beach, a drive away for Mid-Beach. This one is in the same tower where Andrés's team lived while they planned that first restaurant, and it now runs from morning coffee to a 1 a.m. last call.
The Andaz is one of several Collins Avenue towers that have been through new names and new additions over the decades, and that history is part of what you're buying in this part of Miami Beach. If you'd like to know how a building's history and renovations affect the properties around it, Green Group Realty can walk you through it in English or Spanish. Schedule a Personal Market Consultation with Javier Portal.
