Sharing their own beach overlooking the Florida Bay, The Morada Bay Beach Café and Pierre's Restaurant both offer a spectacular location for shooting films, movies, television commercials, music videos, print advertising, and fashion catalogs. Located on the bay side of the Florida Keys, the setting is known for its brilliant sunsets, white sand beach, bent and majestic palms, and inviting Adirondack chairs.
The Café showcases a tasteful and fun vintage surfboard motif in its high-ceilinged main, indoor dining room. A tribute to surfers and sailboarders alike, The Café's walls are adorned with longboards, shortboards, boogieboards, and sails, and well as many original surf movie posters from the '60's thru today. Set in the sand, The Café is also offers spectacular sunsets, a large open beach with giant Adirondack chairs and glorious views of the water as a perfect setting for shoots of all kinds.
A magnificent, two-story plantation-style house is home to both Pierre's Restaurant (upstairs) and The Green Flash Lounge (on the main floor). Sparkling white with blue shutters and an outside veranda, the building overlooks the sandy beach, blue bay waters, and stunning sunsets.
The restaurant is accessed by a dramatic, hand-carved curved staircase which leads to the dining room. Moroccan, Indian, and African tapestries, wall carvings, and artifacts, carved walls, and banquettes strewn with colorful pillows create a romantic setting.
Both the lounge and the upstairs dining room feature dark planked wood floors, an eighteenth century Indian arcade, natural textured walls, and smooth teak tables on kilim rugs, surrounded by Moroccan, Indian, and African artifacts. Each entryway highlights a nineteenth century richly carved monastery door from India. Carved walls, Moroccan lamps, and banquettes strewn with colorful pillows create a romantic setting.
Accented by dark woods and featuring a dramatic mahogany bar, the lounge features heavy leather chesterfield sofas, comfortable beige banquettes and rattan chairs. Decorated with images of old sailing vessels and fishing victories, the lounge captures the atmosphere of yachting and boating clubs in days gone by.
The Moorings Village continues to be a favored location for shooting films, movies, television commercials, music videos, print advertising, and fashion catalogs. Its lush tropical environment offers a diverse range of backgrounds. The private beach has 1,100 feet of white sand, with leaning palm trees and native forested hammocks. The cottages have French doors that open to large picturesque porches with brightly colored shutters that view the blue/green waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo shoot teams who wish to check location availability and fees for either the The Café, Pierre's Restaurant, or The Moorings Village should please contact the Location Coordinator, at 305-664-3120.
All locations are easily accessible, and located approximately 90 miles from Miami International Airport. Special production industry rate for photo teams are available.
