Bleau Bar

This bar is phenomenal! Fabulous atmosphere, beautiful people and talented bartenders! I came here for a bachelorette party and let me just say, the bar actually outshined the club in both service and ambiance! Marissa is a bartender here and she is THE best! She makes delicious cocktails and is just the sweetest person you will ever meet! Customer service here is amazing, you will not be disappointed! Even though the bar was packed on a Friday night at 11:00pm she got us our orders so quickly and not a single detail overlooked! I was very impressed!

At this expensive bar I would expect a top notch bartender. Ordered a martini and I see her shaking it. A proper martini is ALWAYS stirred not shaken, unless requested by James Bond. Instead my martini was overly diluted with chips of ice in it. Of course this inept service resulted in a $ 23 charge! 2 stars for having the glass chilled.

Hector, the bartender here, was great to us on a Friday afternoon. He was quick, made some delicious drinks and was very pleasant. I love a bartender with good energy!
This bar is beautiful, with plenty of soft seating along the perimeter. It’s inside of the lobby of the beautiful fontainebleu hotel and a convenient place to have some drinks before heading into LIV. It’s pricey (average of $ 17 per cocktail) but that goes for everything in this hotel.
Thanks Hector!

Lovely atmosphere. The raspberry martini was phenomenal! The drinks are roughly $ 14 a piece but worth it.

Nice atmosphere and good drinks but pricey. Nice place to sit and mingle with friends before entry into Club Liv.

Super swanky bar in the Fountainebleu hotel, and a good place to hang out and sit down before you head into LIV. However, the drinks are on the pricey side (to be expected), but at least the play good music.

Got there before DJ was set up. Pricey drinks but was expected. Manny the bartender was super personable and took care of us. He is good at bar tricks. Ask him to flip the bottles…

This is where to set it off before heading out or going into LIV. All the waitresses are the bomb especially Lauren. And the best bartenders bar none period

If you get a thrill from going to famous places in the USA and also like to go to swanky and hip bars then you will love the Bleau Bar at the world famous Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami. The hotel is considered a national architectural landmark.
It’s fun to be in the lobby bar with the blue floor and pink column in the middle of the bar. It’s a comfortable lounge.
Drinks are fun, moderately priced and taste good. Service is prompt and courteous. The leather couches are so comfortable. I’ll come back when I visit Miami again.
Worth a trip for a nice before or after dinner drink.

2 stars for the DJ who was keeping the crowd moving, comfy seating and the sheer quality of people watching that is available (rich, poor trying to act rich, ladies of the night and their elderly prey, tourists, etc).
But if I’m gonna pay $ 46 (yes, $ 46) for 2 shots and be treated like customers do not exist by bartenders whose jobs depend on those same invisible customers’ patronage, I’d rather stay home.
Or come, order water and sip out of my flask (which reminds me, I need to go get a flask!).

The vibe is good, theres a good dj, seating is spacious but the expensive drinks are a mood killer. They impose 18% tip on each drink, so after tax and tip you’re at about $ 23 for a cocktail, which isnt even filled close to the brim.
I hate when bars gauch and this is certainly the case here, when the cost of making a drink for them is probably $ 2 – 3. I don’t expect them to provide cheap drinks given the clientele but come on, you could do $ 12 – 14 for a cocktail and still make a hefty profit.
Shame on you Bleau Bar.

Sweet bar. I never came here just for this, but I definitely would if I was looking for a chill bar hang-​out spot.
This place is FULLY stocked, but pricey. There is always good beats to be heard, with usually a DJ on hand during prime hours. There’s always a good crowd attracted from the nightclub lines and a very fun atmosphere.
It’s an easy place to grab a drink from… not too much waiting at the bar, and you can sip your drink while waiting in line for Liv/​Arkadia. This place is really a fun intersection of nightlife between business people, hotel guests, and club/​bar patrons.
The drinks were great, but PRICEY, of course. The waitress service was spectacular every time we stopped by. Highly recommend!

With the added service tip, cocktails here start at $ 20. Even for this lover of uppity cocktails, this seems excessive. And the crowd is, as expected, all that miami beach can be– flashy, high heeled, overexposed (dress wise, that is) and exuding pretension. Other pet peeves include slow service and the risk of getting plastic cups after hours.
So why the 4 stars? Well because this can be just the preamble to a night at Liv or your pre-​dinner cocktail hour, but it can also be your destination. Look closely and you will still detect the old miami glamour, be it because of the marbled space, the crystal chandeliers, or the fact that you are witnessing miami cool, miami glam, and even, yes, miami kitsch.
Also, the DJ is impeccable.

This is an expensive place to lounge, but it is spacious and has nice seating…
To paraphrase Macklemore from his hit, «Thrift Shop»…
I hit South Beach Miami and they stop in Fountainbleau
They be like, «Oh, that Bleau Bar scene — that’s hella tight.»
I’m like, «Yo — that’s $ 10 for a Bottled Water.»
Plastic Bottle Voss 16.9 ounce edition, let’s do some simple addition
ten dollars for a bottle of water — that’s just some ignorant bitch (shit)
I call that getting swindled and pimped (shit)
I call that getting tricked by a business
That water’s not hella dough, plus they charge 18% on top as a service fee
And having the same Voss as Walmart for $ 1.44 in this bar is a hella don’t
Peep game, come take a look through my telescope
Trying to get girls from a brand? Man you hella won’t
Man you hella won’t
…oh, by the way, if you only want water, sometimes they have a free cold water dispenser with cups at the end of the bar near the window, and at worst, walk down towards the Spa and there’s a free water fountain…
And if you think the water is expensive, you should order some alcohol. I think it’s $ 20 for a beer and $ 30 for wine. But if you don’t care about money, and want a place to lounge it’s a nice spot.
They are honest here ‘tho, a friend of mine left his credit card and open tab, and the next day they had the card held at the concierge for him secure and safe for him to pick up without incident.

I’m not sure if I just caught Bleau Bar on an off night, but all I got outta this place was «swanky hotel lobby bar with $ 17 drinks and lame 80s music for the forty-​year-​old-​plus crowd.» Oh, and be aware, your $ 17 drink also comes with an automatic 15% gratuity. So make that $ 19.55.*
Sure, Bleau Bar is gorgeous in a Vegas-​overkill sort of way. Sure, the people-​watching is both fantastic and hilarious. But beyond that, the only reasons you should ever come here are if you 1) are staying at the Fontainebleau like I was and need a drink, or 2) got here too early for the club and need a drink. Other than that, I refuse to believe this place is destination nightlife.
That said, if we can agree on these reasons, then yes, Bleau Bar serves its purpose and does so with some Miami Contemporary panache. As far as hotel lobby bars go, there’s no denying this must be on any short list for Most Memorable. As mentioned, it’s a feast for the eyes if nothing else — from its neon-​backlit, space-​station décor to the constant flow of plastic clientele. Even with a view out onto the hotel’s beautiful pool grounds, you want to instead face towards the establishment where you can watch drunk cougars wobble around on obnoxiously high heels in pretty much any direction. With this kind of entertainment on-​hand, it should help the $ 17 cocktail go down just a bit, bit easier.
*To be clear, I am not anti-​tipping — simply reinforcing the damage here. In fact, I would hope people are tipping at least 15%. It almost seems like Bleau Bar is selling themselves short here. But I guess deadbeats exist in any setting, no matter the ticket price.

I really like Bleau Bar. It is always full of beautiful people, the music is awesome and it’s a fun place to hang out in between dinner at Scarpetta and partying at Liv. Another cool thing to do is come drink water at Bleau Bar and go back to Liv. I’m just saying, $ 10 for Fiji and «our tap water doesn’t come out here», make one skeptical. But Bleau Bar say «serve yourself» which is awesome.
It’s also fun to hang out here and people watch. Wow, when you wonder «how did that 20 something end up with that old man?» you can watch it from start to finish at Bleau Bar. Apparently, it starts with LOTS of drinks.

This place is HOT like fire baby. The hotel is absolutely stunning and a party of it’s own caliber. Most of the reason why people seemed to be flocking to this place was in a failing attempt to deem themselves cool enough to enter the much sought after club downstairs Liv. Clearly I was not cool enough to enter that pretentious party filled with wannabes, so I just stuck to Bleau Bar for the hilarious people watching.
Everyone and their mother was fighting like Black Friday sales just to get a word with the jackass bouncers and fork over thousands of dollars just to be allowed into Liv. That is SO not my scene, but my friend thought it would be cool for me to see. Epic fail. I’m totally fine with that because the experience was enough to satisfy this gal. All kinds of people frequent this place.
The actual bar itself is circular covered in tile and lit up in blue and pink lights. It was very sexy… Very sexy. I would totally go back here but definitely skip the attempt to gain access to Liv. It’s a waste of your valuable time.

Love this bar because it’s beautiful and the people there are beautiful. I like to enjoy my ambiance as well as my company.
The bar tender named Hector could do so many awesome tricks and has his own signature drink list. He’s a wiz and can tell you all you need to know about different liquors and their different quality, etc.
The place is dressy and pricey, so be prepared to enjoy!

BEST scenery ever. It’s worth a drink. Fancy white circular bar, blue lighted elegance, and if you are a world traveler, you will appreciate this lounge. It had a beautiful glow, and I felt like my fiancé and I were Jolie & Pitt.
If you are on VACA, I strongly am recommending this place to you. The floors are marbled, and they play great music. People are walking in and out of their rooms, from outside, and restaurants in the hotel. It’s a good people watching place. I appreciate trends, and this was a place I was noticing a lot of people in awesooomme trends.

Complete and utter luxury in this grand lobby bar. It wouldn’t be far-​fetched to feel like Miami’s celebrity mainstays from the 1940s might easily be waiting for you with a Manhattan in hand. The opulence from the gaudy gold that surrounds you, the light that pours in from the floor to ceiling windows that highlights the pool just beyond and the casual lounging going on immediately transports you to some kind of vacation.
Living just a few blocks south of the Fountainbleau, having a drink here, and certainly dropping a decent dime to do so, had me instantly feeling like I was on a weekend furlough.
Around me, corporate Midwesterners showed off their lobster tans, Miami playboys seduced equally attractive women, older gentlemen with a yacht likely parked across the street sipped scotch and the commonality between all: visible giddiness.