October in the Gables: Gallery Night, ¡salud! Miami & bagel news. October around Miracle Mile: Gallery Night and Giralda Live tonight, ¡Salud! Miami cocktail month, and new restaurants near office space in Coral Gables. October has arrived in Coral Gables, and the neighborhood around Miracle Mile and Giralda Plaza is kicking off the month at full speed. Tonight brings a First Friday double-header, a month-long citywide cocktail celebration is underway, and one of the most talked-about names in American bagels just put a Miracle Mile address on its map. If you work in - or are shopping for - office space Coral Gables has to offer, here's what's happening steps from your desk this month. Tonight: Gallery Night and Giralda Live, back to back. The first Friday of the month is the best night to be in downtown Coral Gables, and October 2 is no exception. According to the City of Coral Gables events calendar, Gables Gallery Night runs from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight, with galleries and art venues across downtown opening their doors for exhibitions, live music, and refreshments. October's participating venues include Leica Store Miami with a photography exhibition, H. Benitez Fine Art Gallery, and The Americas Collection. The city encourages visitors to hop between galleries using the free trolley or Freebee on-demand vehicles. Overlapping with Gallery Night, Giralda Live takes over Giralda Plaza (120 Giralda Ave.) from 7 to 11 p.m., with live music from 8 to 10, alfresco dining at the plaza's restaurants, and local artist and vendor pop-ups. For teams based nearby, it's an easy built-in happy hour: close the laptop at 6, walk a block or two, and the evening plans itself. ¡Salud! Miami turns October into cocktail month. Running October 1-31, ¡Salud! Miami is a citywide cocktail celebration with more than 75 participating venues across the county, as reported by MiamiCurated. Expect special menus and featured drinks at bars and restaurants throughout the month - a timely excuse to try a new spot on Giralda Plaza or Merrick Way after work. If you're entertaining clients this month, it's worth asking whether your go-to spot is participating; its guide to hosting clients in Coral Gables covers the standby venues that rarely miss. A D.C. Bagel favorite is coming to Miracle Mile. The headline opening news this month looks ahead to December: Call Your Mother, the Washington, D.C.-born "Jew-ish" bagel shop and deli, is taking over the former Bodega Taqueria space at 317 Miracle Mile, per MiamiCurated. Co-founders Daniela Moreira and Andrew Dana are bringing their signature malt-boiled bagels and stacked sandwiches - including the "Jetski" and "DelRay Club" - to a brightly colored teal, pink, and yellow storefront. It's the brand's first South Florida location, and it lands squarely in the morning-coffee-and-bagel radius of hundreds of Gables offices. That announcement adds to a dining pipeline that has been building all year on and around the Mile: Buccan and Imoto at 100 Miracle Mile, David Chang's Fuku fried-chicken concept in its first standalone Florida location, Ecuadorian newcomer El Ñaño at 339 Miracle Mile, and the Zuccaly Italian food hall at Plaza Coral Gables. Gables Executive Offices rounded up the fall scene in more detail in its fall Miracle Mile guide. Why this matters if you office in the Gables. Lifestyle amenities aren't a side note in the Miami office market - they're a leasing driver. Companies choosing between submarkets increasingly weigh what employees and clients can walk to, and few corridors in South Florida can match the density of restaurants, galleries, and events packed into the blocks around Miracle Mile and Giralda Plaza. An office rental Coral Gables address means client lunches, after-work events, and recruiting tours all happen within a five-minute stroll - no causeway traffic, no parking garage odyssey. It's a big part of why demand for executive suites Coral Gables wide has stayed healthy even as other submarkets soften. Work where the Gables comes alive. Gables Executive Offices puts your business in the middle of all of it. Its furnished executive suites sit minutes from Miracle Mile, with staffed reception, conference rooms, and flexible terms that let you scale up or down without a long-term lease. If you've been weighing a furnished office Miami businesses can move into immediately - with October's energy right outside the door - this is the month to look. Want to see what your business could get in the Gables? Book a tour

Riverdale Park didn't get a new restaurant this year. It got two old ones to stay open later. * October 1, 2026 Nobody opened a flashy new dining room on Rhode Island Avenue this year. No restaurant group scouted Riverdale Park and decided to plant a flag. Instead, two businesses that already had loyal followings quietly crossed a threshold from casual to permanent, and that shift tells you more about how this town actually grows than any single new storefront would. The bakery that became a restaurant. Manifest Bread has been a fixture at 6208 Rhode Island Avenue since Rick and Tyes Cook opened it in January 2023, after years of selling bread out of their house and at a local wine shop. The original space had room for about seven people standing or perched at a counter. Last July, the Cooks closed the doors for what they expected to be a four-month renovation. Permitting delays and a rough stretch of snow around the end of 2024 stretched that into ten months. When Manifest reopened in late May 2025, the footprint had grown to roughly 3,000 square feet with about 30 seats, a real bar, and enough kitchen space to finally do more than bread and pastries at a counter. That expansion funded itself partly through a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $47,000 from 539 backers, which tells you something about how many people in this town were already counting on this place before it got bigger. The bigger shift for anyone who lives here is the dinner service. Manifest now runs an evening menu Wednesday through Saturday, built around wood-fired pizzas like a tomato pie and a garlic-and-spinach white pie, alongside heavier plates like a rabbit ragu lasagna and desserts including a Basque-style cheesecake with apricot saffron preserves. Cook has talked about wanting the space to feel less like a party bar and more like the kind of European café where someone can order a glass of wine at noon on a Wednesday without anyone blinking. As he put it, the bakery is "here for the community" first, and the new hours are the clearest proof of that so far. That's a real change in what a weeknight in Riverdale Park looks like. Before this expansion, if you wanted a sit-down dinner within walking distance of the MARC station, your options were thin. Now there's a place that mills its own flour, supplies bread to restaurants like The Dabney, and still finds a way to sell you a $27 lasagna on a Thursday night. The food truck that's getting a storefront. A few blocks over, at The Station at Riverdale Park's Bear Square, a similar pattern is playing out on a shorter timeline. Call Your Mother, the D.C. bagel shop known for its self-described "Jew-ish deli" menu, rolled a mobile unit into Bear Square in early 2025, its first presence in Prince George's County. The move filled a real gap. Bagel Place in College Park closed in 2021, leaving Bagels 'n Grinds farther up Baltimore Avenue and Towne Bagels in Mount Rainier as the only nearby options. The food truck did well enough that Call Your Mother is now planning a permanent storefront inside The Station, expected to open late in 2026. The developer's own materials describe a bagel somewhere between classic New York style and the sweeter Montreal versions, run under a Chef Dani twist on deli classics. It's a small detail, but it matters: a business that started as a mobile experiment is about to become a fixed address, which is a different kind of commitment to a neighborhood than parking a truck for a season. Two different tests, one shared outcome. What connects these stories isn't the food. It's the test each business had to pass before Riverdale Park let it grow. Manifest Bread earned its expansion by building a following out of a seven-seat counter and a Kickstarter page. Call Your Mother earned its storefront by proving a food truck could draw a line at Bear Square. Neither business arrived pre-packaged the way the anchor tenants at The Station did. Whole Foods, MOD Pizza, and Burtons Grill moved in as part of a planned mixed-use development. Manifest and Call Your Mother did the opposite: they showed up small, built trust one transaction at a time, and only then got bigger. That's a useful thing to know if you're trying to read where the neighborhood's food scene is headed next. The businesses worth watching in Riverdale Park tend to be the ones that started informal and are inching toward permanent, not the ones announced with a ribbon-cutting. Where this fits into the rest of the week. None of this replaces the rhythm that already exists here. The Riverdale Park Farmers Market still runs Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at Town Center, near the MARC station, and this year's outdoor season runs from March 31 through November 19, with live music and more vendors than in past years. The Station has kept its own Friday evening programming going too, including a summer concert series and monthly markets that carried through August and September. What's different is what happens once the farmers market season ends in mid-November. In past years, the town's evening options thinned out considerably once the outdoor market closed for the winter. This year, Manifest's Wednesday-through-Saturday dinner service gives residents a reason to be out after dark that doesn't depend on market season, and once Call Your Mother's storefront opens, Bear Square will have a year-round anchor that isn't tied to good weather or a truck's schedule. If you're already familiar with Riverdale Park's weekly patterns, from Queensbury Road on market days to the crowd that gathers on the Town Center Market patio, this is the piece that was missing. The neighborhood's daytime and market-day rhythm has been well covered. What's changed is the after-dark option that used to require driving somewhere else. What to actually expect. Manifest Bread's current hours run 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, with the evening menu starting around 4 p.m., and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Sunday. The dining room is closed Mondays. If you're headed there for dinner rather than a morning pastry, plan for the shorter evening window and know that the pizza and heavier plates only run in that later slot. Call Your Mother's timeline is still "late 2026" as of this writing, with no confirmed opening date yet. Until the storefront opens, the food truck at Bear Square remains the way to get a taste of what's coming. Between the two, Riverdale Park's evening options have gone from thin to genuinely reliable, built by two businesses that put in the work at a smaller scale first. If you're curious about what else is changing in Riverdale Park this year, from the Town Center Market patio to how the Purple Line construction is shaping the neighborhood, The Foley Group of Go Brent Realty keeps a close eye on this town because The Foley Group work in it. Reach out any time you want a local read on what's actually happening here, no listing required. Work with The Foley Group. Awarded as Top Team by the Washingtonian, The Foley Group offers the highest level of knowledge and outstanding service to its clients. The Foley Group'd love the opportunity to share more about its services with you. Let's Connect

Call Your Mother deli coming to Coral Gables. The brand has built a following for its colorful, unconventional spin on the traditional Jewish deli. Published Date: September 2, 2026, 7:14 PM EDT Popular bagel shop and deli Call Your Mother is coming to South Florida, with its first Florida location expected to open in Coral Gables this December. The Washington, D.C.-born concept has listed Coral Gables on its website as "coming soon," to 317 Miracle Mile, confirming its South Florida expansion. The team is targeting an early December 2026 opening. Husband-and-wife team Andrew Dana and chef Daniela Moreira founded Call Your Mother in Washington in 2018 after getting their start at local farmers markets. The pair opened the brand's first permanent shop in Washington's Park View neighborhood later that year. Call Your Mother has since grown to 27 operating locations across Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Colorado and Illinois. Its footprint includes six shops in Washington, D.C.; locations throughout Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland; a sizable Colorado presence in Denver and surrounding communities including Boulder, Golden, Fort Collins and Littleton; and a Wicker Park location in Chicago. And the company isn't finished growing. In addition to Coral Gables, Call Your Mother lists upcoming locations in Philadelphia's Fishtown and Rittenhouse Square neighborhoods, Denver's Happy Canyon neighborhood and Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood as coming soon. The brand has built a following for its colorful, unconventional spin on the traditional Jewish deli. Its menu centers on bagels and schmears along with breakfast and lunch bagel sandwiches, coffee, cookies and pastries. The Miracle Mile shop will also feature Call Your Mother's signature colorful aesthetic, with pink, yellow and teal among the planned design elements. The Coral Gables location marks Call Your Mother's long-awaited entry into Florida and adds another national name to Miracle Mile's growing collection of restaurants and food concepts. Love its content? Add WhatNow as a preferred source on Google to see more of its trusted coverage when you search. Be the first to know. From new restaurant openings to exciting retail launches and real estate insights, be the first to know what's happening in Miami Regional Reporter Laine Doss is an award-winning food and spirits writer with nearly two decades of experience. Laine is the former food editor of Miami New Times and has contributed to Broken Palate, Eater, and more. A native New Yorker, Laine now resides in Hollywood, Florida with her rescue dogs, Luna and Dora.