Sadelle’s Coconut Grove is like that friend of yours who’s got Instagram totally figured out. It’s beautiful, everything it does looks fun and it's effortlessly popular with the cool kids. Whether that friend who’s got Instagram totally figured out makes you happy or depressed is exactly also how you’ll probably feel about Sadelle’s.
Sadelle’s got its start in Manhattan, a product of the Major Food Group expats who also brought Carbone and ZZ’s Club to Miami. Mostly it’s a brunch spot, with dishes that generally seem recognizable—a tuna melt, blueberry pancakes, pigs in a blanket—but also somehow prettier.
Perhaps the best explanation of this is Sadelle’s famous/infamous bagel tower. It arrives at the table with six bagels on a spear and a gleaming three-tiered tray that looks like it could be part of a royal tea service. Sliced salmon and a cute little cake of white fish share space with fanned-out tomatoes and cucumbers, all dotted with capers and dill. The whole thing is big enough to doll out six bagel sandwiches to your entire boozy book club crew. It’s also pretty enough that you’ll want it in the background of your new profile photo. And at $125, it’s probably more than you spent the last time on your entire brunch bill.
Turkey, ham, dressed cabbage and white bread, looking like it’s just got a Can’t Buy Me Love makeover.
There’s also, while we’re talking about things as handsome as an influencer, the triple-decker sandwich. Cut into two rows of near-perfect squares, it’s a simple affair of two types of meat of your choice and a layer of slaw separated between three slices of crust-free bread. Turkey, ham, dressed cabbage and white bread, looking like it’s just got a Can’t Buy Me Love makeover.
All the food—like, for sure, the crispy-custardy french toast—feels a whole lot like the space, just undeniably good-looking. Major Food Group employed Ken Fulk Inc., which also designed Carbone, to create a space that seems both ready for a bachelorette weekend kickoff and also a spot to get that boss who just arrived in town to critique your TPS reports good and boozed up. Big cushy booths could hold an entire group of Jersey Shore tourists in town to do this trip right, and the big back-lit bar topped with leafy plants looks like an ideal spot to sip sexily from a cocktail straw. Outside, tri-colored umbrellas stretch out over a twinkly-lit patio and do a fine job keeping shadows off the photo of the caviar-topped soft scramble that you're trying to take.
Look, all this attention we’re spending on the scene shouldn’t make it seem like the food isn’t good, because, like all Major Food Group restaurants, it is good, sometimes even very good. You’re also going to probably wonder about whether that thing you’re wearing is nice enough, and whether you're in the background of that dude’s selfie. You are, by the way, and you and Sadelle’s both look terrific.