Saturday morning on Kane Concourse starts the same way it has for years. A dog walker crosses at the eastern median, past Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture and the striped awning of Mike's Cigars, headed toward whichever café has a table open first. Two blocks west, Romero Britto's heart-shaped "For You" sculpture catches the sun near the salons and jewelers that mark the other end of the strip. Between those two public sculptures sits the entire commercial spine of Bay Harbor Islands, and residents have been running the same loop through it long before anyone started talking about what comes next.
What comes next has been the story for over a year now. THE WELL Bay Harbor Islands opened its residences at 1177 Kane Concourse this past spring, and the wellness-focused development promised a market to go with it: GoldenGood, an offshoot of Key Biscayne's Golden Hog, complete with a juice bar, bakery, deli and grill. When it was announced in December 2025, GoldenGood was slated for early 2026. That date has already come and gone. Reporting from CoStar in April confirmed the market is now pushed to next year, arriving after the building's members' club, originally slated to open before the end of this past summer, gets up and running. The same reporting described the building's office space as already almost fully leased, even with the grocery component still without a firm date.
None of that has changed how the block actually functions this month, and that's the part worth sitting with. The loop between LOVE and Heart was never waiting on GoldenGood to work. It already does.
The Block Between Two Sculptures
Kane Concourse runs exactly two blocks along 96th Street, and its shape is set by public art rather than street signage. The eastern median holds Indiana's LOVE, surrounded by cigar shops, medical offices and the start of the dining row. Walk west and the storefronts shift from restaurants toward services: salons, a tailor, jewelers, a pharmacy. The strip ends at Britto's sculpture, where the concourse gives way to the island's quieter residential streets.
| End of the Concourse | Landmark | What's There |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern median | Robert Indiana's LOVE | Mike's Cigars, medical offices, most of the restaurant row |
| Western median | Romero Britto's "For You" | Salons, jewelers, a tailor, the residential streets beyond |
Locals rarely think of it as a landmark-to-landmark walk. It just is one. Ten minutes covers the whole thing on foot, which is part of why the block absorbed a construction cycle at 1177 without losing its rhythm. There was always somewhere else on the strip to go.
What's Actually Feeding the Block Right Now
The dining lineup on the eastern block does most of the daily work. Morla, run by owner-chef Rueben with Sharon out front, has built a reputation strong enough that regulars describe it as one of the better meals they've had in South Florida over the past year. A few doors down, Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza keeps its kitchen open late seven days a week, with hours that run to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Mamale Café & Pizza Bar, a kosher spot run by owner Daniel, rolls out a new dish every first Wednesday of the month, testing it on regulars before it hits the permanent menu.
Toward the waterfront side of the strip, NOMAD has been serving its globally influenced menu since opening in spring 2022, and it still hosts date-night specials and seasonal art previews for the neighborhood. The Palm Miami holds down the steakhouse end of things, with the kind of room where the staff knows most of the tables by name. Ovo at the Altair covers kosher dining inside the boutique hotel, and Open Kitchen by Pure Simple Cooking handles the lighter, health-forward end of the menu spectrum.
For dessert, Bon Chocolatier, the vegan and kosher chocolate boutique founded by Parisian couple Deborah and Yoann, sits closer to the block's western half, offering hazelnut praline truffles and chocolate-dipped pretzels to anyone walking the loop toward the Heart sculpture.
None of this rotation depends on THE WELL, GoldenGood, or anything still under construction. It's what's already open, already staffed, and already full most weekend nights.
The Grocery Run Everyone's Still Waiting On
The specific promise of GoldenGood was that it would close a real gap: a proper market with prepared foods, a bakery and a deli inside walking distance of the Concourse. That gap hasn't closed yet, and the slip from early 2026 to sometime in 2027 means it won't close this year either.
In the meantime, the block's actual grocery geography runs through what's already there. Bay Harbor Mini Mart Grocery & Alcoholic Beverages covers the basics for anyone who doesn't want to drive off the island for a gallon of milk. Everything else, the fresh bread, the specialty cheese, the prepared dinner, still means a trip to Bal Harbour Shops or beyond. That was true in December 2025 when GoldenGood was first announced, and it's still true now.
Sunday Runs on a Different Clock
A block south of the Concourse, 95th Street Park keeps its own schedule. The town's long-running Concert in the Park series brings performers, some with Grammy nominations to their name, out on Sunday evenings, and the park doubles as the site for the town's regular farmer's market. It's a different rhythm than the weekday foot traffic on Kane Concourse, slower and more local, and it runs independent of whatever's happening at the two-block strip a short walk north.
Residents planning around a visiting relative should also know the Bay Harbor Islands Arts Festival, now in its fourth year, returns to Kane Concourse over MLK weekend. The 2026 edition already ran in January. The next one is set for January 17 and 18, 2027, with more than 60 artists expected to fill the same two blocks between LOVE and Heart with painting, sculpture and jewelry for the weekend.
The Walk, In Order
For anyone new to the rhythm, or anyone hosting someone who is, the loop runs the same way most Saturdays:
- Start at the LOVE sculpture on the eastern median, near Mike's Cigars.
- Grab coffee or breakfast at whichever café on the eastern block has a table free.
- Work west through lunch options: Mister O1 for pizza, Morla or NOMAD for something more composed.
- Stop at Bon Chocolatier for something sweet before the block turns residential.
- Finish at Britto's Heart sculpture on the western median, where the concourse ends and the quieter streets begin.
It's a walk that works exactly as well this month as it will once THE WELL's members' club is finally up and running, and just as well as it will once GoldenGood arrives, whenever that turns out to be.
The Takeaway
The story about Kane Concourse has been framed around what's coming for over a year now: first THE WELL's residences, then its wellness club, eventually a market that keeps missing its own deadline. What actually holds the block together is simpler. A two-sculpture walk. A rotating lineup of restaurants that don't need an anchor tenant to draw a crowd. A Sunday schedule at 95th Street Park that has nothing to do with any of it. The neighborhood finished itself a while ago.
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