Miami’s home for the Run for the Roses. The 153rd Kentucky Derby is Saturday, May 1, 2027: every screen on the race, sound on for the call, Derby hats welcome, and never a cover charge.
Game-day at Grails
A quick tour of the covered Wynwood patio, The Yard under the tent, the indoor sneaker lounge, and the cocktails. The kind of room you can’t replicate watching the Kentucky Derby alone at home.
Kentucky Derby 2027 watch party
The 153rd Kentucky Derby runs Saturday, May 1, 2027, at Churchill Downs, with post time in the early evening Eastern. Here is the Grails watch party for it.
About Grails Miami
Highlights
Located in Wynwood, Miami, Grails is more than your average sports bar. It's an experience. We bring together hyper-local beers, hand-crafted cocktails by world-class mixologists, and unique shareable dishes, all packed inside a fun and welcoming atmosphere.
The Grails Experience spans three rooms. An indoor "sneaker-themed" sports lounge decked out with one-of-a-kind art pieces and rare sneakers on display. A colorful, spacious covered "Miami Vice" patio with its own patio bar, hookah service, and Miami–Wynwood palette. And The Yard, a tented adjacent space with a giant projector screen for the major game. Whichever room you're in, you'll have your sights set on one of our 75+ TVs.
Grails is the perfect location for families, large parties, or a get-together with close friends, with plentiful space and shareable drinks and dishes. Be sure to try our famous sneaker cocktails and check out our happy hour for discounts on our most popular items.
The Grails Experience
Hand-restored, well-known sneaker grails line our walls, collected from collaborations and drops throughout the last two decades. Our indoor lounge feels less like a sports bar and more like a sneakerhead’s dream living room, with red booths, ambient lighting, and a custom sneaker bar centerpiece.
Whether you’re a hypebeast, a casual collector, or just here for the wings, the indoor lounge is a vibe, and unlike any other sports bar in Miami.
Spacious. Vibrant. Pure Miami. The covered Miami Vice patio seats up to 120 across multiple table configurations and has its own patio bar, with TVs angled for visibility from every seat. The Yard sits adjacent under a giant tent with a projector screen for the major game. Hookah service runs all evening on the patio.
The color palette pulls straight from Miami Vice: pinks, teals, neon accents. The patio walls flow with rotating mural work that fits Wynwood’s art-district vibe.
Yes, you really do drink it from a Jordan-inspired sneaker. The Grails sneaker cocktail is our most-photographed creation, equal parts conversation piece and craft cocktail. It’s been featured in local press, racked up millions of Instagram impressions, and is now a Wynwood rite of passage.
Pair it with shareable dishes from the full menu or post up at the bar with a flight of hyper-local beer. There’s no other drink experience like it in Miami.
Award-winning craft cocktails. Hand-crafted shareable dishes. A bartender who actually remembers your name. Hyper-local beer on tap. 75+ TVs, two full bars, and three distinct seating areas, including a Wynwood-art-district patio. Group tables for 4 to 40+. Hookah on the patio. DJ-curated music.
This isn’t beer-and-wings-on-a-flat-screen. This is the Grails Experience. It’s why we’re consistently rated Miami’s #1 sports bar.
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Best Kentucky Derby bar in Miami
Looking for the best place to watch the Kentucky Derby in Miami? Grails Miami is the Kentucky Derby watch party bar built for it. The whole room turns to Churchill Downs for the post parade, the call to the post, and the Run for the Roses, with 75+ TVs, the projector in The Yard, and sound on for the race call on the main screens. Watch the Kentucky Derby in your best hat or seersucker, bring the kids, skip the cover charge, and grab a table for four or forty. Details for this year’s race are on the Kentucky Derby 2027 watch party page.
FAQ
Grails Miami is the best place to watch the Kentucky Derby in Miami. Located at 2800 N Miami Ave in Wynwood, we put the Derby on across 75+ TVs and the projector in The Yard, with sound on for the race call on the main screens. Watch the Kentucky Derby from the indoor sneaker lounge, the covered Miami Vice patio, or The Yard under the tent, with no cover charge, ever.
Grails Miami, Miami’s Kentucky Derby bar in Wynwood. The whole room turns to the race at post time, the call plays with full sound on the main screens, the full bar pours classic and signature cocktails (bourbon included), and the kitchen runs shareable plates all afternoon. Three seating areas handle solo fans, dates, and groups of four to forty.
The 153rd Kentucky Derby runs Saturday, May 1, 2027, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, with post time in the early evening Eastern. The Derby is always the first Saturday in May. Grails opens at 10 AM on Saturdays, so there is plenty of time to settle in for the Derby Day undercard before the Run for the Roses. The Kentucky Oaks runs the day before, on Friday, April 30.
No cover charge, ever, and no dress code. Derby hats, fascinators, seersucker, bow ties, and sundresses are welcome but never required, and a T-shirt works just as well. Reservations are strongly recommended for Kentucky Derby Day.
Yes. Reserve a table online for smaller groups. For parties of 15 or more, email info@grailsmiami.com and we will help plan the group’s Derby Day. Birthday crews, office outings, and Derby Day hat parties are all welcome.
Yes. Kids are welcome any hour we are open, and a Kentucky Derby watch party is one of the easiest sports days to bring them to: the race itself lasts about two minutes, and the hats, the horses, and the post parade keep everyone watching. The covered Miami Vice patio and The Yard under the tent have room to spread out.
Grails Miami is in Wynwood at 2800 N Miami Ave. Brickell and downtown Miami are about ten minutes away; Edgewater, the Design District, and Midtown are minutes away; Miami Beach and Coral Gables are fifteen to twenty minutes by car. Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, home of the Florida Derby, is roughly 30 minutes north, so Grails is the natural Miami meeting spot on Kentucky Derby Day.
En Grails Miami, en Wynwood (2800 N Miami Ave). Transmitimos el Kentucky Derby en más de 75 televisores, con sonido en las pantallas principales para la llamada de la carrera. La edición número 153 del Kentucky Derby se corre el sábado 1 de mayo de 2027 en Churchill Downs. Sin cover, familias bienvenidas a cualquier hora, y mesas para grupos de cuatro a cuarenta personas. Sombreros de Derby bienvenidos, nunca obligatorios.
The Kentucky Derby is the one Saturday a year when people who never watch horse racing stop to watch a horse race. Up to twenty three-year-olds break from the gate at Churchill Downs in Louisville, run a mile and a quarter on dirt, and about two minutes later the winner is draped in the garland of roses. It is the first leg of the Triple Crown, it has been run every year since 1875, and the 153rd running is Saturday, May 1, 2027. Where to watch the Kentucky Derby in Miami is an easy call once you have seen the room at post time: Grails Miami, in the middle of Wynwood, with the race on every screen and Derby hats welcome.
Derby Day at Grails starts with the undercard in the afternoon and builds toward the main event in the early evening. Sound is on for the race call on the main screens; 75+ TVs across the indoor sneaker lounge, the covered Miami Vice patio, and The Yard under the tent mean there is no bad seat, and the projector in The Yard carries the main event. We are about ten minutes from Brickell and downtown Miami, minutes from Edgewater, Midtown, and the Design District, and fifteen to twenty minutes from Miami Beach and Coral Gables. Tables for four to forty work for a Kentucky Derby party of two or the whole group chat. Reserve a table early for Kentucky Derby Day.
El Kentucky Derby es la carrera de caballos más famosa de Estados Unidos, y en Miami se vive en Grails. En el corazón de Wynwood encontrarás la carrera en cada pantalla, sonido para la llamada de la carrera, sombreros de Derby, cócteles artesanales y platos para compartir. La edición número 153 se corre el sábado 1 de mayo de 2027 en Churchill Downs. Sin cover, familias bienvenidas a cualquier hora, y mesas para grupos de cuatro a cuarenta personas. Reserva tu mesa y vive el Derby en Miami.
The Derby is only the start of the season. The Preakness Stakes follows two weeks later, the Belmont Stakes completes the Triple Crown in June, the Breeders’ Cup runs every fall, and the Pegasus World Cup comes to Gulfstream Park in January. See every race on the horse racing schedule, and when your second sport is on, you will find it here too.
From Gulfstream to Churchill Downs
Gulfstream Park’s spring feature, about 30 minutes north of Wynwood, is one of the main prep races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. The winner earns 100 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard, the top prize on the qualifying trail.
Runners out of the Florida Derby have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby more often than those from any other prep. Barbaro, Big Brown, Nyquist, and Always Dreaming all won in Hallandale Beach before winning at Churchill Downs.
Follow the South Florida horses from the Florida Derby to the first Saturday in May, then watch the Kentucky Derby at Grails with sound on for the call. The Preakness and the Belmont follow on the same screens.
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