The Bend Liquor Lounge

A decade into its existence, the Bend Liquor Lounge remains one of Miami's top dive bars. Dreamt up by architect Landy Lamas and builder Mo Lacayo (see Chela's Coctelería) and inconspicuously nestled inside a North Miami-Dade shopping plaza off the Palmetto Expressway just north of the Miami Lakes town line — why does Google insist that's Hialeah? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — the Bend has all the ingredients for a great neighborhood haunt: a great happy hour, Star Wars memorabilia, and, of course, weekly karaoke. Cozy up to the lounge's massive bar and indulge in one of the Bend's signature cocktails. That's right: signature cocktails at a neighborhood bar. A suburban neighborhood bar, at that — and one that veteran imbibers might remember as the infamous dive known as Our Place.