Quite a bit has modified because the beloved Miami staple opened in 2012 — every part aside from the restaurant itself. What was as soon as a extra desolate nook of Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Upper West Side is now stuffed with different eating places, retailers, condominium buildings, and foot site visitors. The metropolis, which was as soon as identified for nightclubs and some new spots in Wynwood, is now a mecca of nice eating places and restaurateurs, together with these with a Michelin star. With all this variation, it was time for the beloved hidden gem and its 800-square-foot self to get a facelift, as nicely.
Thankfully, Blue Collar is not going anyplace, however it is hopping throughout the boulevard to a a lot bigger location with an thrilling new addition — a full bar.
Blue Collar has been serving up scrumptious consolation meals in Miami since 2012, together with its signature cornbread.
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This April, Blue Collar will go away its present location and transfer immediately throughout the road into a brand new area at 6789 Biscayne Blvd. The restaurant will embody 4,000 sq. ft as an alternative of 800 sq. ft, which is able to enable the restaurant to develop its menu and provide way more ample room for indoor and outside seating.
But don’t fret — menu staples and costs will stay unchanged, and that is a promise coming from chef and proprietor Daniel Serfer himself.
“I’m the primary man who complains that when a small, superior place expands, it loses that unique magic, so this transfer and what it means for Blue Collar and its followers weighs closely on me,” explains Serfer. “I can guarantee of us that the brand new Blue [Collar] will embrace the identical spirit, menu idea, and pricing because the traditional Blue [Collar] however will deliver simply sufficient of the correct ‘new’ to make it work.”
The new location will now seat 140 visitors between the eating room and outside patio and an expansive full bar with an emphasis on good, old-school cocktails (not the flowery stuff). “People in search of handlebar-mustached mixologists and drinks that take half-hour to make ought to get their kicks elsewhere,” Serfer solely half-jokes.
Plus, Blue Collar will now have a brand new completely happy hour, though the precise menu continues to be within the works.
“Part of Blue Collar’s success has been its pricing, and I’m not trying to change that within the new area,” provides Serfer. “A bigger menu and extra seats didn’t point out, for me, an opportunity to spike our costs. The new Blue [Collar] will preserve that spirit of accessibility; it will simply provide extra for individuals to entry.”
Blue Collar can be serving extra consolation meals than ever earlier than due to its bigger kitchen and eating room.
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The expanded meals menu will characteristic Blue Collar’s classics in addition to a ton of recent gadgets. Some of the fan-favorite signatures remaining on the menu are the “Billy Corben Sandwich,” Blue Collar’s legendary dry-aged cheeseburger on a Portuguese muffin, and the “Big Ragout.”
Daily specials will embrace matzo ball soup and rotating soups, chops, and pasta, in addition to freshly baked bread. Serfer’s model of a Miami completa, a meal with a protein, carb, facet, and a non-alcoholic drink, can be obtainable at lunch for $15 and dinner for $20.
New additions to the menu are a trio of cheeseburger egg rolls, Cuban sandwich egg rolls, and pepperoni pizza egg rolls; mushroom and goat cheese croquettes with fig jam; shawarma fabricated from lamb shoulder that comes with Israeli couscous, saffron, pita, hummus, and tahini; Swedish meatballs with toast and gravy; and sticky toffee pudding.
For these questioning what is going to occur to the unique location of Blue Collar, don’t fret — it is staying in possession’s palms. Although it technically can be closing down and transferring throughout the road, the restaurant guarantees to utilize the previous area. “It’s staying within the household,” says Serfer. “The area is valuable to me, and I’ll be introducing one thing one hundred pc new there when the time is true.”
Blue Collar will shut at 6730 Biscayne Blvd. someday in late March or early April forward of its transition throughout the road, which is able to open by the tip of April.
Lunch, completely happy hour, and dinner can be served initially, with breakfast and brunch rolling out shortly after that. Free lot parking and avenue parking abound.
Blue Collar. 6789 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-756-0366; bluecollarmiami.com. Opening in late April.