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Mad Records Café Launches All-Day Menu With Vinyl Vibes From Breakfast to Late-Night
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By Eric Barton | April 17, 2025
There’s a moment, right around 11 a.m., when Mad Records Café starts to feel less like a restaurant and more like the inside of somebody’s very hip dream.
The espresso machine is hissing. Someone’s thumbing through vinyl upstairs. A DJ is easing into a soul set downstairs. And from the kitchen: the scent of truffle oil and slow-cooked ribeye, like the culinary equivalent of a bass drop.
It’s all part of the new all-day food-and-sound experiment from Mad Radio, which made its name throwing parties in Medellín and now wants you to stay for breakfast. And brunch. And maybe again for a cocktail around midnight.
Chef Diego Pasqualicchio—who seems equally fluent in eggs and after-hours—is behind the new menu. It’s one of those genre-blending lineups where you can get soft scrambled eggs on sourdough for $10 or, if you’re feeling fancy, a millionaire French toast topped with mushrooms and black truffle pesto. There’s a cheeseburger that arrives with serious smash energy, a lasagna Bolognese for reasons unclear but appreciated, and something called a Chicken Sussana, which sounds like a nickname you’d give your favorite ex.
Pasqualicchio’s cooking is the draw, sure, but the place sells a vibe. Upstairs is a sunny café and record shop where burrata salads share space with Japanese pressings. Downstairs is a clubby lounge with DJs spinning everything from techno to jazz, where the drinks menu leans hard into mezcal and espresso martinis.
Come for the steak and eggs. Stay for the $5 happy hour wines, the $10 churros, the late-night vinyl grooves. Or, as founder Leo Herrera puts it, “We’re giving everyone another reason to stay all day, discover new artists, and feel part of something unique.”
Mad Records Café is open Tuesday through Sunday at 7700 Biscayne Blvd. The espresso hits at 8 a.m. The beats go until 3 a.m. Bring your appetite—and maybe have some hangover-curing electrolyte drinks standing by.
Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who splits his time between Asheville and Miami. He’s on a constant hunt for the best pizza, best places to bike, and for his next new favorite destination. Email him here.
