For most of the last decade, June in Coconut Grove was the quiet month. School let out, the snowbirds had gone, and the calendar emptied enough that you could get a sidewalk table at Greenstreet on a Friday without thinking about it. That version of the month is over. The neighborhood is now booked solid from the second weekend of June through the second weekend of July, and the programming is aimed squarely at visitors.
The useful thing to know, if you live here, is that the resident version of this month and the visitor version do not have to be the same. The same events have a 9 a.m. shape and a 9 p.m. shape. The new restaurants have a Tuesday and a Saturday. The Underline has a rush hour and an empty hour. What follows is the calendar as it actually lays out, with the seams a current resident can use to move through it without losing the month to crowds.
What Just Got Layered Onto the Block
Three pieces of programming are running on top of each other in June, and none of them existed in this form two years ago.
The first is The Grove Cup, the Coconut Grove BID's neighborhood-wide World Cup program. It opens with a
