Haute Scene | September 16, 2025

Haute Living Hosts Haute Leaders Cocktail Evening At The Tips Golf In Miami

Haute Scene | September 16, 2025
Darby Kordonowy
By Darby Kordonowy, Freelance Writer

Haute Living hosted an exclusive Haute Leaders cocktail evening at The Tips Golf in Brickell this summer. The event brought together leaders, tastemakers, and friends of the brand for a night of food, drinks, and golf inside one of Miami’s newest lifestyle destinations.

Remi KouKou, April Donelson, Tadia Silva, Kamal Hotchandani, and Su Ottikkutti

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

The Tips Golf is a newly opened, two-level, 3,600-square-foot premium indoor golf studio located inside the AC Hotel Miami Brickell. The venue offers Five Trackman iO–powered simulator bays delivering professional-grade analytics and private golf instruction alongside its sleek ten-seat bar featuring innovative craft sips to encourage cocktails and conversation between swings.

Ornella Lopresti, Shulman, Dr. Anna Chacon, and Anna Carr

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

Throughout the evening, guests tested their swing on the simulators while savoring passed hors d’oeuvres, including cucumber canapés with roasted red pepper and sundried tomato cream cheese, lamb chop lollipops with mint tzatziki, shrimp cocktail with citrus mezcal sauce, and a charcuterie spread with prosciutto, brie, honeycomb, figs, and crackers.

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

For cocktail pairings, attendees sipped on themed cocktails including ‘The Tips Margarita’ with Casa Azul Orgánico Blanco Tequila; the ‘Miami Heat’ with Casa Azul Reposado Tequila, pamplemousse, muddled jalapeño, pink grapefruit juice, and grapefruit soda; and the ‘Daly 205’ with Broken Tee Vodka, unsweetened black tea, fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup, alongside prosecco, cabernet, and craft lagers. 

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

Notable attendees included Dr. Ana Chacon, Tadia Silva, Su Ottikkutti, and Jorge Fajardo, J.D., alongside Kamal Hotchandani, CEO and founder of Haute Media GroupApril Donelson, Managing Director at Haute Media Group, Gabrielle Shulman, Network Memberships Advisor at Haute Media Group, and more.

Su Ottikkutti

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

Anna Carr and Gabrielle Shulman

Photo Credit: Micky Vice

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