This French restaurant from New York is taking a ‘seasonal pause’ in Miami Beach

After a year and a half, La Grande Boucherie is taking a break.

The luxurious French restaurant from the New York-based The Group Hospitality, which opened in January of 2025, announced on its website that it would be taking “a brief seasonal pause.”

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The announcement was also brief, adding only a little appreciation for its customers: “Thank you for your continued support and for sharing in the spirit of joie de vivre with us.”

Located at 81 Washington Ave. in the South of Fifth neighborhood, the Miami Beach La Grande Boucherie was Group Hospitality’s first foray into the Miami market (there are Grande Boucheries still operating in New York, Chicago and Washington D.C.) It featured a whopping 400 seats across two stories, a classic bar and a garden courtyard.

The menu offered classic and contemporary French dishes such as filet mignon au poivre, steak frites, coq au vin, and boeuf Bourguignon. There was also a seafood and raw bar menu, a first for the brand.

At the moment, Google lists La Grande Boucherie as “temporarily closed.” There is no date for a reopening.

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In Miami, the phrase “seasonal pause” is enough to cause raised eyebrows, and there’s good reason for that. While it’s common for Miami restaurants to close for a week or so in the summer to give staff a break, many struggling spots prefer to pass off a closing as a “pause.”

In 2025, Sereia, the Portuguese import in Coconut, announced it was “pressing pause to rest, recharge and dream up new flavors” but never reopened; its space was eventually taken over by Manoli Greek restaurant. Likewise, the seafood spot Ensenada at the Vagabond Hotel, another New York import, announced it was taking a break six months after it opened. The restaurant later announced it had closed for good on Instagram.

Sometimes, the restaurants do return. Massimo Bottura’s Torno Subito, took a summer pause from its original home on the downtown rooftop of Julia & Henry’s food hall only to re-emerge later in the Design District.

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