Miami's Best Cuban Coffee: Five Places to Fuel Up

New Times staff January 25, 2012 9:11AM

It's the crack of dawn and somehow you are hearing roosters crow though you are nowhere near a farm. You have a crazy morning ahead dealing with an especially difficult client and you realize the rooster you hear crowing is actually your brain periodically sobbing inside your head. A cup of coffee would help, but el Americano no vale.

Coffee is an indelible aspect of Cuban, and by extension, Miami culture. Cuban coffee is usually made from Bustelo or Pilon, both owned by Miami-based Rowland Coffee Roasters, a company founded by a family of Cuban exiles. There is no shortage of places in the area to find an acceptable cup of coffee. But what do you do when just "acceptable" won't cut it?

You visit one of these:

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New Times staff