Four spots, a few blocks, and happy hour deals that start at 3 PM: Miami Worldcenter is downtown’s easiest bar crawl. Start with half-price cocktails at Earls, slide into $8 mini martinis at Eight Bar, refuel with Italian at Serafina, then finish on the lanes at Lucky Strike.
Everything sits inside the same walkable district near Kaseya Center, so there’s no Uber surge between rounds.
Here’s where to go, what to order, and when to get there.
Stop 1: Earls Kitchen + Bar
Earls opens the crawl because its happy hour starts earliest: 3 to 6 PM, Monday through Friday. It comes back for a late-night round from 10 PM to close, Sunday through Thursday.
The deal: half-price signature cocktails, including the Classic Martini, Earls Lime Margarita, Moscow Mule and Peach Bellini Margarita. Select bottles of wine are also half off, and beer and wine by the glass get $3 off. Bites start at $5, with truffle fries, sticky Korean ribs and a happy-hour-only petite steak frites.
Good to know: happy hour is served in the lounge, bar and patio only, not the dining room. Wine lovers should aim for Tuesday, when bottles go half price.
Stop 2: Eight Bar
Eight Bar runs happy hour all day, every day it’s open, so there’s no rush to beat a cutoff. It sits on the ground floor of Maple & Ash at 699 NE 1st Ave, and opens at 4 PM.
The move here is the mini martinis, all $8: the Espresso Martini (Grey Goose, Kahlúa, espresso), a Tito’s Martini dirty or with a twist, and the Cosmo-ish. The 8Bar Margarita and 8Bar Old Fashioned are $8 too, and beers run $6.
Order food while you’re here. $8 hand rolls come in king crab, spicy tuna, salmon miso, hamachi jalapeño and avocado cucumber, and the chicken nuggets are $8. Rolling with a group? The Shot-O-Puss is six shots for $24.
Stop 3: Serafina
Serafina, the New York Italian spot at 652 NE 2nd Ave, runs happy hour daily from 4 to 7 PM, the longest window on the crawl. It’s the place to put some pasta or wood-fired pizza under the martinis before bowling.
On Thursdays, stay for Ladies Night from 7 to 9 PM: martinis are 2-for-1 and the truffle fries are endless, with E11EVEN Vodka as the featured pour.
Stop 4: Lucky Strike
End the night on the lanes. Lucky Strike, at 199 NE 7th St, has 28 bowling lanes, an arcade and a full cocktail bar under the neon.
Happy hour runs 4 to 7 PM, Monday through Friday, with $7 beers and $10 select cocktails. Arrive a little before 7 if you want to bowl: the Night Strike deal kicks in at 7 PM Monday through Thursday (6 PM on Sunday), with unlimited bowling and shoes included at $28.99 per person.
Night Strike is walk-in only and depends on lane availability, so weeknights are your best bet. Arcade fans should come on Wednesday, when non-redemption games are half off all day.