Miami Beach, FL

bar • experience

Pearl Champagne Lounge

In 2 Fast 2 Furious, O’Conner and Pearce are invited to meet Verone at a nightclub, where they witness first-hand Verone’s persuasive interrogative techniques which involve a bucket and a frantic rat. I feel confident in stating that this is not a regular occurrence at the Pearl Champagne Lounge, 1 Ocean Drive at 1st Street, South Miami Beach, where the scene was shot.

Miami, FL

destination

Coconut Grove

Verone’s in 2 Fast 2 Furious suitably OTT estate to which a clutch of drivers is invited to ‘audition’ for a job alongside the top man is 100 SE 32nd Road at Brickell Avenue in Coconut Grove. The 14-acre estate, built in 1971 overlooking Biscayne Bay, once belonged to Sylvester Stallone

Miami, FL

experience

Downtown Art House

The cops are on hand and, despite a valiant escape attempt, O’Conner’s car is ‘tasered’ to a stop in 2 Fast 2 Furious, alongside the fishy murals of what was then Capt. Harry’s Fishing Supply Warehouse, on NE 1st Avenue at NE 11th Street. The premises now houses the Downtown Art House studio space.

Key Biscayne, FL

outdoors

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

The shot of O’Conner’s car leaping onto the moving boat in 2 Fast 2 Furious was filmed a few miles to the south on Key Biscayne, at the southern tip of Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, 1200 South Crandon Boulevard, Key Biscayne, FL 33149

Miami, FL

Northeast 14th Street & North Miami Avenue

The starting point for the race in 2 Fast 2 Furious, is NE 14th Street at North Miami Avenue, just north of Downtown, in front of the Firehouse MRKT restaurant housed in the Old Fire Station No.2 at 1401 North Miami Avenue, although the ‘Road closed’ sign is thoughtfully being put in place about a mile south, in front of the Olympia Theater, 174 East Flagler Street at 2nd Avenue.