Holiday Gift Guide

Shop Local this Holiday Season with Miami Open for Business Grant Recipients

This holiday season, make your gifts extra special by supporting local small businesses in Miami. By choosing to shop locally, you’re not only finding unique, thoughtful gifts but also strengthening our community. Each purchase helps create jobs, supports dreams, and keeps dollars circulating in our local economy.

All the businesses featured in this guide received grants from Miami Open for Business, a community-driven initiative empowering small businesses to grow and thrive, sponsored by Wells Fargo. Let’s celebrate their hard work and dedication by making them part of your holiday traditions. Together, we can build a stronger, more vibrant Miami!

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BEAUTY

North: DJ Styles in North Miami

DJ Styles is a natural hair salon that takes a holistic approach to hair care and focuses on services such as natural hair care, hair loss recovery, and protective styles in a welcoming and inclusive environment.

Central: Fefi’s Beauty Salon in Allapattah

Open Tuesday-Saturday, Fefi’s Beauty Salon in Allapattah is your go-to beauty parlor for all things hair, nails, and waxing in Central Miami. Make time to pour into yourself this holiday season with a pampering salon day!

South: Designs by Sommer

Designs by Sommer is a multicultural salon of professional cosmetologists that provides affordable beauty services to working and middle class professionals who prefer a personalized salon experience that best suits their lives and increases their confidence.

FOOD & DRINK

Radiate Miami Kombucha

Radiate Kombucha is an ethically sourced, small batch, locally-made and probiotic-rich superfood. This mom-owned business is committed to supporting small local farms and farmers’ families. Every ingredient has been researched and sourced meticulously to ensure the highest quality product.

Central: Pizzaiola

Pizzaiola is a fast-casual restaurant located in Little Havana that specializes in handmade wood-fired pizza. They also offer salads, pasta, wings, sandwiches, and calzones, ensuring there is something to eat for everyone.

South: Top Taste Jamaican

Top Taste Jamaican is a family-owned restaurant in South Dade that serves up authentic Caribbean cuisine, including jerk chicken, curry, ackee, fried fish, oxtail, and even tasty plates for fully vegetarian meals. They are also available for catering and parties – try them today!

Dessert

Countywide: Zaytouna Foods

Zaytouna is a social enterprise whose mission is to employ Syrian women refugees who use authentic recipes that have been passed down from generations. Everything is handmade to order and made with the freshest ingredients. Zaytouna offers catering, wholesale, and retail goods.

    • Zaytouna makes Mediterranean pastries, and offers catering, wholesale, and retail goods.
    • Delivers Countywide
    • https://zaytounafoods.com/
    • (305) 204-5474

Central: T’Antay Cake Studio

T’antay Miami is a family-owned cake studio. They make fresh cakes to order and only take a limited amount of orders a week to ensure everything is made with love and care. They specialize in luxury buttercream and dazzling creations for birthdays, engagements, weddings, and more.

West: Casa Bake

Casa Bake is an artisanal French bakery dedicated to quality pastries and baked goods that delight the senses and warm hearts. In addition to pastries and breads available for pick-up and delivery, they offer baking classes where you can learn French pastry classics with Chef Benoît Pagliardini.

DÉCOR & GOODIES

Florals: Flowers by Nelson in Allapattah

Flowers by Nelson offers creative and whimsical floral designs. They provide distinctive and creative florals for every occasion. Their extra-special designs are truly artistic and capture the sense of your event in an awe-inspiring floral arrangement that won’t be forgotten.

Signage & Promotional Items: PWSMD by Martha Melo

PWSMD provides custom print and graphic design services to produce products like screen printed t-shirts, embroidered polos, business cards, brochures, postcards, signs, banners, event displays, and more!

Musical Instruments: Ideal Music Box

From wood to wonder, Ideal Music Box crafts instruments that tell stories, define generations, and create timeless harmony. Their catalog includes all kinds of musical products, accessories, and acoustic equipment. They also offer instrument repair to bring your equipment back to life!

WELLNESS

South: South Florida Fitness Palmetto Bay

Over the last 15 years, South Florida Fitness has offered a unique combination of personal training and tailored health and fitness services that are available both in-studio and online. Experience a revolution in fitness with their personalized one-on-one training, tailored exclusively to clients’ needs.

Central: Premier Athletic Rehab Center

PARC is a family-owned and client-focused rehabilitation and wellness facility that provides premier physical therapy services in a state-of-the-art building. In addition to PT, they provide athletic performance services, personal/group training, wellness memberships, and all types of therapies such as cupping, dry needling, ultrasound and more!

North: Mind Over Matter Allied Health Massage

Mind Over Matter Allied Health is a dynamic mobile massage and physical therapy service that brings wellness directly to their clients through personalized massage therapy or corporate wellness days to cater to individuals’ and businesses’ physical and mental well-being

CONCLUSION

About The Miami Foundation

The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $650M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fundholders and 50,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.

 

About Miami Open for Business

Fueled by a $20 million grant from Wells Fargo, Miami Open for Business was a three-year program to empower historically underserved nonprofits and small businesses to build generational wealth and resilience through the purchase and ownership of critical business assets, such as property, equipment, and technology. At the program’s end, 400+ small businesses and nonprofits received funding through grants and loans and over 1,000 organizations received 10,000 cumulative hours of assistance. We are incredibly grateful to Wells Fargo and the network of small business ecosystem providers who collaborated to make the program a success.

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