Old Miami

Beloved Cass Corridor dive bar with a back garden

Address 3930 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48201

The Old Miami is a Cass Corridor institution: a dim, scruffy, deeply loved dive bar that opened in 1979 as a hangout for Vietnam veterans (Miami stood for Missing in Action / Missing in Iraq). The walls are covered in military memorabilia, the jukebox is genuinely good, and the bartenders are unflappable. There's an unexpectedly large back garden with picnic tables and a fire pit.

Live music — punk, indie, blues — runs most weekends. Cash only most nights. This is a place to drink Pabst and play pool and end up in the back garden until close. The Cass Corridor around it has gentrified, but the Miami has not.

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