‘Nude’ grocery is opening in Miami’s Brickell area. See the reveal
Ready to shop in the Nude?
A new grocery store, called Nude Miami, is hitting Miami’s Brickell corridor, and it’s all about going au naturel. Think bare, as in free from additives like artificial flavors and colors, GMOs and chemical preservatives. Your food may be stripped down, but shoppers need to be fully clothed, of course.
The founders of the social media-savvy store — all in their mid-20s, first-time grocers, and one of them a Miami native — feel Nude Miami is feeding into a Miami trend of shoppers seeking healthful eating options. Nude Miami will market organic groceries, prepared foods, smoothies, coffee and matcha.
Nude Miami’s product mix
Nude Miami will offer glass-bottled cold-pressed juices using organic ingredients, “better-for-you” snacks, and “emerging wellness brands you can’t find anywhere else,” said co-founder Sebastian Lezcano, the store’s 25-year-old chief financial officer.
The store also will feature a hot bar and prepared foods, featuring proteins, sides, salads, smoothies and grab-and-go options — including grass-fed steak, wild-caught salmon and pasture-raised chicken.
“Unlike national chains, we’re highly selective and uncompromising about ingredients and preparation. Every product is vetted against strict standards: no seed oils, no GMOs, no artificial colors or flavors, no chemical preservatives, and no synthetic ingredients,” Lezcano said.
How Nude Miami differs
This may sound a little like competitor Sprouts Farmer’s Market, an Arizona-based national chain founded in 2002 that also markets natural foods, with farm-fresh produce sections center store that are promoted as chemical-free. Sprouts opened its seventh South Florida store last January in nearby Coconut Grove.
But there’s a difference: Nude Miami isn’t a traditional grocery store, spokeswoman Olivia Empson said in an email to the Miami Herald.
“It’s more like a boutique organic grocer and cafe,” she said.
Sprouts’ stores are larger, with aisles that also sell household items, with delis and baked goods departments, but no cafes. The Grove Sprouts, for instance, is 24,000 square feet.
Nude Miami plans to open early this year — the owners don’t have a date yet — and will take up 4,720 square feet on the ground level of the 85-story Panorama Tower at 1100 Brickell Bay Dr.
Miami’s health food history
Nude Miami does harken back to a time in the city’s history when natural food advocates opened beloved small businesses.
In 1970, Woodstock and flower child veteran turned entrepreneur Sandy Pukel opened his Oak Feed health food store in the center of Coconut Grove. For 34 years Oak Feed was a hub for customers who were into macrobiotic diets, as well as cancer patients who sought Pukel’s counsel and his natural foods — including Latin pop singer Soraya, who died from breast cancer in 2006, two years after Oak Feed closed.
Pukel’s goal was to “help people get back into nature. It was a philosophical mission,” he told the Miami Herald in 2017. So much so, he had an employee who wouldn’t touch the food after handling money, because he didn’t want the food to get “money vibes.”
Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley reportedly popped into Oak Feed when they were in Miami. When Oak Feed went out of business in 2004, customer Lawrence Krug, a personal trainer who had shopped at the health food outlet since its inception, told the Herald: “We were the ‘60s people. It was the center of life. It was always on the cutting edge.”
Then there’s the Grove’s venerable The Last Carrot at 3133 Grand Ave., a neighborhood snack bar restaurant but with a similar spirit shared by Nude Miami’s founders. The Last Carrot celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025.
Michael Compton, a University of Miami art student, opened The Last Carrot, his health-oriented snack bar restaurant with its blend of sprout salads, soups, sandwiches, protein shakes, hummus and tuna melt spinach pies in 1975. Compton, who died from liver cancer at age 53 in 2001, aimed at the health-conscious “hippie” generation that defined the area in the 1960s and 1970s.
The strip mall that houses The Last Carrot was sold a year ago to a developer who plans a mixed-use development on the land. The business restaurant, run since 2001 by Compton’s daughters Erin and Meadow, is still in its original space as the family continues to look to relocate, they said Monday.
Why Brickell for Nude Miami?
The health-conscious clean-eating trend Compton capitalized on a half-century ago when mood rings, Elton John and post-Watergate relief was all the rage, is coming around again, Nude Miami’s owners say.
“Being born and raised in Miami, I’ve seen firsthand how much the city has evolved over the past few years,” said Lezcano, the chief financial officer. “There’s been a major shift towards health and wellness, and no place to shop for everything under one roof. This isn’t just another out-of-town concept — this is a Miami-born brand.”
Nude Miami aims to become part of the daily routine for health-conscious shoppers who want organic groceries.
“We chose Brickell as our first location because it has a growing year-round residential and office population,” he said. “It’s a young, vibrant and walkable area that we’re excited to be a part of.”
The people behind Nude Miami
Nude Miami’s three founders are all friends with ties to the city.
“The three of us have known each other for years and had a feeling that we’d start a business together one day,” Lezcano said. “We weren’t planning on opening a grocery store, but after a shared frustration, we decided to take matters into our own hands. We felt the industry hadn’t been disrupted in a while and there was a real opportunity to build a place tailored towards the modern consumer.”
Lezcano is a Belen Jesuit and Miami Dade College alum.
Charles Amine, 24, Nude Miami’s chief executive officer, went to Parsons School of Design and relocated from New York City to Miami where he has family. He also has lofty ambitions for the new venue.
“This will be the healthiest grocery store in America, and Miami is the perfect place for it,” Amine said. “The city deserves a place that reflects how much people here care about their health. It’s not just about what’s on our shelves and in our food — it’s about the experience.”
Social media savvy
A part of that experience is already out there on social media. You may be following Harry Miller, the store’s chief marketing officer, on the @nudemiami TikTok page. There, the third member of the trio auditions food manufacturers’ products and answers viewer questions about what’s coming.
“We’ll be carrying hundreds of brands on our shelves and have been meeting with a lot of the founders to hear their stories,” said Miller, 25, who moved from the United Kingdom to attend the University of Miami and now calls the city home. “We’re also filming a TikTok series where we taste and review their product, which has been a great way to spotlight them.”
The three founders hope Nude Miami takes off, and would like to open other locations in Miami and across South Florida.
As for that ooh-la-la name, it’ll be clothes on while grocery shopping at Nude Miami. The three young founders aren’t trying to start that kind of trend.
This story was originally published January 7, 2026 at 8:40 AM.
