Cinco de Mimo Festival

Only in its second year this festival has the potential to become a city staple.
As I drove up what surprised me was how the festival was spread throughout the neighborhood. I found parking after about 10 minutes and walked up two blocks to Biscayne.
At Biscayne plenty of businesses had set up shop either opening their doors or having tables outside. I walked into several shops and chatted with different vendors. I even scored a cupcake. Definitely a nice way to spend a few hours. I only wish some of the large, national chains would have set up tables outside and I do hope they offered some sort of MiMo discount.
I only wish there would have been more interactive activities for kids and adults alike. Additionally, more crosswalks and maybe even re-​routing traffic for a couple of blocks would be nice. Although I know with Biscayne that may be a little more difficult.
I’m looking forward to seeing this festival mature and attract a large following.

Cinco de MiMo is a 3-​day festival in the «historic Morningside neighborhood» which I have been driving by for over 2 years thinking it was a barren motel-​ridden neighborhood. Boy, was I wrong.
In case you didn’t know, and I had been trying to find out for a while as well, MiMo on BiBo stands for Miami Modern on Biscayne Boulevard. Ohh, yeah.
The festival was apparently 50s-​themed (which doesn’t make sense, but whatever), and there was a parade, a bunch of music all over the place, and my favorite: several restaurants were doing special promotions.
These restaurants gave out pretty generous food samples that ranges for free-​free-​free to about $ 4 a pop.
I’m so glad they did this because I would have hardly stop at any of these restaurants otherwise. I personally tried out samples/​food/​drinks from Moshi Moshi, Moonchine, the farmer’s market, Verdaddy’s, and some organic sandwich place that I really wish I remembered the name of because it was AWESOME.
Anyway, it was great to see so many people walking around an area that is usually barren or has the random hooker or two. It ain’t so bad, y’all!
Hopefully they’ll keep doing this as there are a lot of great businesses here to make this area what it deserves to be.