There’s dinner in Miami—and then there’s dinner at Palace South Beach.
For nearly four decades, Palace has brought together incredible food, cocktails and larger-than-life drag entertainment on Miami Beach’s iconic Ocean Drive. Now, Velvet Noir Magazine is putting the spotlight on the complete Palace experience, naming Palace “Miami’s Most Iconic Dinner Show.”
The feature celebrates something our guests have known for years: Palace may be famous for drag, but the experience extends far beyond the stage.
More Than a Drag Show in Miami
When searching for a Drag Show in Miami, Palace is difficult to miss. Since 1988, drag performers have transformed our corner of Ocean Drive into an open-air stage, bringing the energy of Palace beyond the restaurant and directly into the heart of South Beach.
Velvet Noir captures that energy beautifully, describing an evening where performances move between the restaurant and Ocean Drive while dinner, cocktails and service continue around the spectacle.
It’s this combination that makes Palace different. We aren’t simply a restaurant with entertainment or a bar that happens to serve food. Palace brings dining, cocktails, drag and Miami nightlife together to create a true Drag Dinner Show in Miami.
The Food Takes Center Stage
The Velvet Noir feature gives Palace’s culinary program plenty of attention, highlighting the restaurant’s Miami Spice three-course dinner and several dishes from the menu.
Among the selections featured are crispy green tomatoes with whipped pimento cheese, a jumbo lump crab cake, pan-roasted Florida mahi, guava-bourbon pork chop and ricotta gnocchi with wild mushrooms.
The publication gives particular praise to the Florida mahi, served with sweet-corn succotash, fingerling potatoes and citrus-mojo beurre blanc.
Dessert doesn’t get forgotten either, with the brown-butter blondie and key lime icebox pie completing an experience designed to make the food every bit as memorable as the show.
A Miami Dinner Show Nearly Four Decades in the Making
Palace first opened in 1988, establishing a legacy that has become inseparable from LGBTQ+ culture and entertainment in South Beach.
The Velvet Noir article also looks back at Palace’s history, including its original home at 1200 Ocean Drive before moving to its current location at 1052 Ocean Drive. The feature even recalls Gianni Versace as one of Palace’s regular guests during an unforgettable era of South Beach.
But Palace has never relied solely on its history.
Over the years, the experience has continued to evolve through nightly drag shows, our famous Drag Brunch Miami experience, rooftop events, special guest performers, dining and cocktails—all while keeping the personality that made Palace an Ocean Drive institution in the first place.
Drag Brunch by Day, Dinner Show by Night
Of course, if you’ve searched for the Best Drag Brunch Miami has to offer, there’s a good chance you’ve already encountered Palace.
Our legendary Drag Brunch in Miami has become one of the signature experiences of South Beach, bringing together brunch, cocktails and some of Miami’s most exciting drag performers.
But when brunch ends, Palace doesn’t stop.
Our evening performances transform dinner on Ocean Drive into a distinctly Miami experience. Queens command the room, performances spill onto the sidewalk, cocktails make their way through the crowd and dinner continues in the middle of it all.
It’s part restaurant, part theatre, part nightlife—and completely Palace.
Experience Palace South Beach for Yourself
Velvet Noir perhaps captures Palace best by recognizing that after nearly four decades, Palace has become much more than somewhere to watch drag while having dinner. It is a Miami dinner show in its own right—one shaped by the energy, glamour and personality of South Beach.
Whether you’re looking for a Drag Show Miami, planning a Drag Brunch Miami experience, searching for an unforgettable Dinner Show in Miami, or simply want dinner and cocktails somewhere that could never be described as ordinary, there is only one Palace.
Come for the food. Stay for the queens. Experience Palace.
Palace Bar & Restaurant
1052 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
