This photo-friendly coffee pop-up now has its own space in Miami Beach

A colorful coffee pop-up and breakfast spot has just opened a permanent home on Miami Beach.

Known for its photo-friendly pop-ups at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden during Art Basel in 2024, Sunshine Coffee is now open at the Esme Hotel, serving its popular iced coffees and matchas as well as breakfast and lunch. And its brightly designed new home makes it even more photogenic than before.

Named for their daughter Sunshine, the coffee spot is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Alan Philips, a marketing and hospitality veteran, and Gelareh Mizrahi, a fashion designer known for handbags sold at spots like Barneys, Selfridges and Kith and used by celebrities like Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner.

Together, they wanted to create a warm, cozy place for people to gather.

“We designed Sunshine Coffee to be an extension of our home, full of beautiful objects, love and magic,” Mizrahi said.

Yellow walls and a bright blue portal welcome customers into the space, which is filled with custom handmade furniture that Mizrahi hopes evokes “the happiest place in the world.”

Miami Iced coffees — iced espressos with cold foam, the beans roasted in Miami Gardens — lead the menu in flavors like Cinnamon Toast Crunch Milk, Chocolate Chip Cookie Oat Milk, Banana Milk and Pink Vanilla Cold Foam.

There are matcha drinks, too, like the Miami Iced Matcha Latte, Strawberry Flower Matcha Latte and Watermelon Matcha Lemonade, along with smoothies like the Morning Margarita, which comes with pineapple, avocado, basil lime and milk, or the Super Fantastic with blue spirulina, almond butter, Greek yogurt, tahini, honey, dates and milk.

The menu leans heavily on breakfast style options, though there’s a chopped salad, too. One of the classics is the pancake cake, buttermilk pancake batter made into a cake, served by the slice and topped with honey butter.

There are also brown butter focaccia cinnamon rolls; a breakfast sandwich with eggs and bacon; Japanese egg salad; shakshuka breakfast tacos and the Sunshine chopped bagel with cream cheese mixed with chopped smoked salmon, avocado, cucumber, red onion and dill.

And for the photo minded, Sunshine’s toasts — like the spicy tuna or caviar toasts — will also pop on social media.

The brand, which will be opening a second location in North Beach, is “more than great coffee,” according to Philips.

“It’s about creating a home for the community,” he said. “We want every guest to feel like family, to be greeted with warmth and to leave with a smile.”

Sunshine Coffee

Where: Esme Hotel, 1438 Washington Ave., Miami Beach

Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily

More information: www.sunshinecoffee.com or @sunshinecoffeeclub

This story was originally published September 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM.