Two storefronts sit side by side at 9636 and 9638 NE 2nd Avenue, and they share one front patio. The first is La Paix Bakery, a family-owned Haitian bakery. Its new Miami Shores shop has been serving customers since October. The second is Conscious Brewing, a family-owned nano-brewery that describes itself as located in Downtown Miami Shores.
The two businesses keep different hours, and that is why the pairing matters. The bakery runs on morning hours and the brewery runs on evening hours. Put them on one patio and the 9600 block has someone open on it from 7 a.m. into the late evening on most days. The Greater Miami Shores Chamber of Commerce has already picked that patio for an event, and most of the holiday calendar that follows takes place in the same downtown.
A Bakery Built to Produce
The Miami Shores shop is La Paix's second location. The bakery started in Miramar, where it has been building its name in South Florida's Haitian communities for two decades, Hoodline reported on October 23. The Miami Shores location is led by co-owners Yolande Derosier, Nadeige Sterlin and Natasha Nozile-Janvier.
The size of the building matters for anyone hoping it sticks around. The bakery's announcement on EIN Presswire calls the 3,200-square-foot space a hybrid manufacturing and retail location. Along with the café counter, it was built to relieve capacity limits and supply La Paix's growing distribution to regional grocery stores, supermarkets and mass retailers. So the ovens on NE 2nd Avenue also feed a wholesale business that reaches well past the village.
On the retail side, the café layout has indoor and outdoor seating. The announcement lists an expanded menu with egg breakfast sandwiches, "fritay" fried appetizers and daily hot meals, and says custom cakes and domestic shipping are planned. The La Paix menu adds Haitian long bread, rolls, patties, akasan, fresh passion fruit juice, soup joumou, beef-and-seafood stew and sweets. That menu page is tied to the Miramar shop, though, so it's worth asking at the Miami Shores counter what's available that day.
In the same announcement, Sterlin explained the choice of location. "Opening in Miami Shores allows us to increase accessibility for our customers in Miami-Dade County, home to the largest Haitian population in Florida, while introducing our culture and traditional food to a broader audience," she said.
Six Taps Next Door
Conscious Brewing is the evening half of the patio. The Chamber describes it as run by a husband and wife. The tap list on the brewery's website has six beers, each with a name that sounds like a song:
- No Frills, a 4.9% pilsner
- Sunset on a Saturday, a 7.0% imperial blonde
- Word is Bond, a 5.8% hazy IPA
- Step Into My Zone, a 4.7% kolsch
- Escape Through Rhythms, a 3.7% raspberry Berliner weisse
- Keep It Gully, a 5.3% dunkel
The brewery's online menu lists only beer, and the bakery next door handles the food.
How the Day Splits Between the Two Doors
The table below combines La Paix's announced hours for the Miami Shores store with the brewery's listed weekly hours.
| Day | La Paix Bakery | Conscious Brewing | Both open |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday to Wednesday | 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. | 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Thursday and Friday | 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. | 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Saturday | 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. | 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. | 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Sunday | 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. | 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. |
From Monday through Saturday, the patio has a business open on it for 15 or 16 hours a day. On Sunday it's 12. Breakfast and lunch belong to the bakery. The brewery takes the last hour or two of the night. In between, every day of the week, both doors are open at once. That overlap runs five hours on weeknights, eight on Saturdays and four on Sundays.
Hours for a new shop often change in the first months. The brewery's homepage shows the current day's hours, so check it before heading over.
The Chamber Put Its November Event on the Patio
The Greater Miami Shores Chamber of Commerce is holding its Patio Social on Thursday, November 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. The listing invites professionals and neighbors for drinks, bites and conversation "on the shared front patio of La Paix Bakery and Conscious Brewing," which it places "in the heart of Miami Shores."
The two-hour window sits inside the Thursday overlap in the table above, so both doors are open for the whole event. The Chamber was also the partner La Paix named when it announced its October ribbon-cutting.
The patio also fits the village's Saturday routine. The Village's 2026 listings put the Miami Shores Farmers Market at Optimist Park, NE 94th Street and NE 2nd Avenue, on Saturdays from 3 to 8 p.m. That is two blocks south of the patio, and those hours fall inside the Saturday stretch when both businesses are open. We covered the market's move to Saturday evenings in Miami Shores Just Traded Its Sunday Morning for a Saturday Night, and a bakery and taproom two blocks away add to that same evening pull.
December Moves Downtown
The patio is a daily stop. The Chamber's December calendar shows the same corridor taking on a bigger role for the season, with one weekend outing a short drive south. Here are the dates in order.
- Thursday, December 3, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Chamber's Happy Wine Mix and Mingle.
- Sunday, December 6, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pickleball Palooza / Mahjong Mania at Dinko Pickleball Complex, 6304 NE 4th Avenue, Miami. Every skill level is welcome, with prizes, a raffle, light bites, drinks and music. Pickleball costs $45 for Chamber or Dinko members and $60 for nonmembers. Mahjong is $35 for everyone. The combo is $75 for members and $85 for nonmembers.
- Friday, December 11, 6 to 9 p.m. The 6th annual Sip, Shop and Celebrate in Downtown Miami Shores. Miami Shores Village and the Chamber host it, with food, music and activities for kids. Local businesses that want a vendor spot can register through the same page.
- Sunday, December 13, 4 to 7 p.m. The Heidi Hewes Holiday Home Tour, a walking tour of decorated Miami Shores homes with wine and cheese, cookies, coffee, live music and a holiday market. Tickets are $50. The Heidi Hewes Chapter of the Woman's Cancer Association of the University of Miami hosts the tour, and proceeds go to cancer research and education at UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Miller School of Medicine.
Sip, Shop and Celebrate is the one evening this season built around downtown itself. It runs on a Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., and on Fridays La Paix's announced hours run until 9 p.m. while the brewery's listed hours run until 11 p.m. If both keep those hours, anyone at the event can get to the 9600 block with both doors open, and the brewery will still be pouring after the event ends.
What a Busier 9600 Block Changes
Downtown Miami Shores already had evening activity on Saturdays. A bakery that opens at 7 a.m., next to a taproom that stays open late on weekends, spreads that activity across the whole day and the whole week. A shop that serves breakfast sandwiches at dawn and hot meals at dinner, beside six taps that open in the afternoon, gives NE 2nd Avenue one address where people stop at almost any hour.
For homeowners near the village center, that kind of everyday foot traffic is the walkable downtown that buyers tour with us and ask about. If you live within walking distance of NE 2nd Avenue and want to know how blocks like this one show up in a pricing conversation, Kendra Campbell Borja can walk it with you. Learn more about the village on our Miami Shores neighborhood page, or schedule your free seller consultation and we can start with a coffee from the patio.
