BurgerFi Opens in Aventura Today (Pictures)

All photos by Laine Doss

BurgerFi's hormone-free, grass-fed burgers.

By the size of the crowd at yesterday's BurgerFi friends and family event in Aventura (18139 Biscayne Boulevard), you would think the burgers were made of gold bullion instead of free-range, grass-fed beef.

The Aventura BurgerFi is the sixth restaurant in the chain, which itself is just over a year old. This is the first location in Miami-Dade county, with the other BurgerFi's located to the north in Broward, Palm Beach, and Orange counties. The company's motto is to "burgerfi" America, and the chain seems to mean business with additional restaurants coming soon to California, Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina, Connecticut, Virginia, and Massachusetts.

The restaurant is decorated with sustainable, recycled materials and promises to hold a low carbon footprint. Chandeliers are styled from industrial meat hooks and Edison lamps give the room a soft glow. The Aventura location, inside a strip mall, loses a bit of the seaside burger joint charm of the free-standing BurgerFi's, but an outside patio is inviting enough.