Inside the American Bar New York’s Pop-Up in Miami

It is a running joke that during Art Basel, Miami Beach becomes the 6th borough of Manhattan, and Thursday night’s celebration at Socialista’s Miami outpost was proof that this isn’t so much a joke as indisputable truth. The local Cipriani-owned watering hole had been reimagined as a pop-up location of American Bar, the beloved eatery located in Manhattan’s West Village, and many of its usual patrons were out in full force. 

They were welcomed by proprietor Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, who also counts Saint Theos and the soon-to-open Holiday Bar among his ventures. “It’s obviously been a few years since people were able to come down and celebrate properly,” he told Vogue. “Maggio [Cipriani] and I were talking about how everyone is always dragged in so many different directions every night, so we wanted our friends to have a place to come at the end of the night.” 

At midnight, coming in droves from earlier celebrations put on by Chanel, Moncler, and Playboy, partygoers did, indeed, descend upon the venue in search of a nightcap. Some, like Sebastian Faena and Gary Sorrenti, were able to rustle up a late-night snack in the form of beef carpaccio and pasta for the adjacent kitchen servicing Cipriani Downtown Miami. The two creative minds later treated guests to an impromptu performance of songs from their recently-released EP, Save Your Life. 

All fueled for the dance floor—thanks to trays of peach bellinis and American Bar’s fine-tuned espresso martini recipe—guests including Chloe Brooke Wise, Jeremy O. Harris, and Evan Mock cut a rug until the house lights came on around 4 am.