Bayside Marketplace – A bit odd shopping mall

Bayside Marketplace is an open air shopping mall located near the seashore in Miami. The mall is a bit low-key in architecture, and it has a strange out-of-place feeling that I’ve never felt before in any shopping mall in the US. It felt like Asian mall, full of people and a lot of small vendor stalls.

There are both the normal chain stores, such as GAP or Disney, and then also local merchants — some of them having really small outlets. We walked twice past the toy store we were looking for, and it was not even hidden anywhere. Just small enough not to be noticiable immediately.

There is a separate food garden that seem to focus on the greasy side, so we skipped it. A nice perk was a small square inside the mall with local band playing salsa; there were muscle boats in the background — felt like being in Miami Vice.

www.baysidemarketplace.com, 401 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida, USA, +1 305 577 3344