The 24 best coffee shops in Miami, from classic Cuban spots to trendy gems

Now with three locations, Vice City serves all the classics: lattes, cappuccinos, cold brew and more. There are milk alternatives such as house-made almond milk, oat milk and soy milk. And the beautifully decorated drinks go well with one of the cafe’s baked goods. Whether it’s a lavender-infused coffee beverage or a complicated effervescent tea, the eclectic Vice City Bean is bound to have whatever off-the-wall drink you’re craving.

Everyone in Miami knows (and loves) Panther. These local roasters pioneered specialty coffee in this city and have been slowly expanding their caffeine empire by opening new locations and also offering their single-origin beans at restaurants all around town. These are the masters, and they like to share their craft through Panther Coffee Academy, where they host coffee growing or latte art workshops. The coffee is fresh, diverse and lovely, and the cold brew is so strong, it should come with a warning label. At night, the Wynwood flagship flips into Panther After Dark, a wine bar with live music, making this a true cultural fixture in the city. 

There are coffee shops you unofficially turn into co-working spaces, and then there’s GROU, which is actually a coffee shop and co-working space. They grind up Per’La beans for your standard offerings, but also offer creative seasonal drinks, concentration-boosting chagaccinos and Viennese lattes. While the Merrick Park location does have membership plans, you could book a phone cabin, office or meeting room for the day if you need to get some serious work done. The Gables location can be found where the former House of Per’la sits.

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Think of Wynwood and you’re probably remembering that night when you left the bar to find the sun had come up. Miam is a respite from all that, a full-of-sunlight cafe with a quite-good breakfast menu, full coffee bar and a peaceful space to break open that laptop or meet pals for an afternoon jolt to get you through another night in Wynwood.

You can find everything we love about Coral Gables in Tinta y Café, which also has a location in Miami Shores. It’s quirky, local and deliciously Cuban, with a cozy midcentury vibe that’s both moody and light-filled. It’s also pretty laid-back and you can grab a legit Cuban coffee during the lunch rush without having to fight several elderly gentlemen, as well as delicious sandwiches that put a new spin on classics. Note: this is not the place to treat as your satellite office; there’s no wifi, and laptops are politely declined. This is, however, the perfect place to catch up with an old friend or take a break from the hustle. 

Inspired by moto culture, this Little Haiti coffee shop (with another location in Aventura Mall) is all bricks, engines and caffeine. The interior is dark, masculine and cozy, lined with tufted leather couches, motorcycles and graphic merch that you’ll probably buy just to be a part of the culture. On the weekends, this is a great place to ogle at vintage motorcycles and cars, as it often hosts meetups. For something as off-the-wall as the idea of a coffee joint for motorcycle enthusiasts, try the nitro cold brew with CBD paired with a delicious empanada.

Head to this Instagrammable and Miami-bred natural-food cafe chain for its stellar açaí bowls and laid-back surfer vibes. Perfect for that mid-day coffee break, order a cappuccino, a double macchiato, a latte or some other form of coffee and mix it with your choice of almond, oat, hemp or organic whole milk. The oat milk lattes are the jam here, particularly the matcha version. Our choice combo is one of those with a PB Lover bowl: an açaí bowl with banana, peanut butter, strawberries, granola, goji berries, almonds and cacao nibs. It’s the kind of meal to fuel you for a day hitting the waves or, in our case, the sand.

When New Yorkers want their day to feel like a provincial morning in France, they head to Maman. Now, Miamians can, too. This French-inspired all-day café recently opened in Wynwood, with a quick grab coffee and pastry counter and a full-service restaurant touting menu items like creme fraiche pancakes, a New York croissant sandwich and Maman’s fruit basket, a guava-filled croissant topped with tropical fruit. Lattes are served in picturesque Chinoiserie teacups, so we dare you not to post your latte on Instagram. 

This earthy and airy Edgewater café serves up ethically sourced roasts with a side of Caracas Bakery pastries, croissants and house plants. Their mission is to showcase the beauty of Latin America, sourcing their beans from Colombia and Honduras and serving them up as flavorful espressos, French presses, cappuccinos and more. Come for some conversation or to work for a few hours; the friendly staff makes you feel right at home. 

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You’ll usually find owner Chase Rodriguez whipping up locally roasted offerings at this MIA Market coffee counter, from delightful cappuccinos to quick espressos. Take a seat at the food hall to enjoy your drink and some empanadas at leisure, or an iced coffee or cold brew to go if a long shopping day is in store. The matcha, too, is not to be looked over, made with green tea organically shade-grown in Japan from locally loved JoJo tea. Nor is the funky merch, which changes up seasonally.

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Café Demetrio has all the charms of a Viennese coffee house in the heart of Coral Gables. It’s the kind of place where you post up for hours reading a book or the paper (do people still read the paper?) as you enjoy decadent caffeinated offerings like a dark cacao latte or espresso con panna. It’s also a great spot for a casual breakfast or lunch, with a bountiful menu of gourmet sandwiches and classic brunch offerings.

Bebitos could charge you South Beach prices for a café con leche, but they keep things standard here. This elevated Cuban Café serves breakfast on the lighter side and Latin-inspired sandwiches and bowls for lunch, which wouldn’t be complete without their elevated takes on caffeinated Cuban classics. For something special, try the cloud latte, a double shot of expresso with cloud foam and cacao “rain.” 

Cuban coffee menus have gone largely unchanged in Miami for decades (Bustelo, white sugar, cow milk, you know the stuff). Suite Habana came onto the scene to change this. Owner Nayelis Delisle designed a blend based on memories of her sipping coffee with her abuela in post-revolution Cuba, sourcing beans from Brazil and Colombia to create a dark roast from memory. The espumita here is created with brown sugar, and you can get your cortados, cafe con leches (also iced!) with oat, almond or virtually any other kind of milk. The space is light and airy, filled with a healthy mix of friendly locals, curious travelers and yes, if you’re lucky, Joe Jonas.

No, you’re not going crazy. If you’ve driven around Brickell lately, yes, that is an airplane in the middle of an empty lot on SW 15th Road—carrying not passengers, but a full-on Argentinian café. Grab a seat in the cockpit or under a shaded tree outside to enjoy decadent first-class-style offerings like the Casa Rosada, a red velvet cappuccino or the antioxidant-touting 1986 with blue sugar planes sprinkled on top. The big ticket item is the Tierra del Fuego ($19), a cappuccino made with edible 24K gold.

Angelinas is Midtown’s neighborhood coffee shop, and a rebrand in 2022 brought on both a cleaner look and new menu to the space. Now, you can grab a delicious shakshuka with a drip coffee, or opt for other AM hits like avocado toast and sandwiches. It’s a great spot for a simple Sunday morning, a midweek break, or a quick cortado to go. 

This female-owned company proudly roasts all its coffee beans in its Brooklyn roastery. Grumpy sources environmentally and socially responsible beans from Kenya, Honduras, Burundi, Guatemala and Colombia. First-timers should try its award-winning cold brew, which you can drink in-house and then buy to-go in either “Ready-to-Drink” or “Ready-to-Mix” bottles.

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Greek club owners and restaurateurs Loannis Sotiropolous and Efthymios Paliouras started Crema as part of a growing restaurant group under the name SP Hospitality and today, there’s a Crema in virtually every neighborhood (with more coming). This is your local spot for cute European-style coffee shop vibes, as it offers a robust all-day breakfast menu and a serious offering of coffee drinks, including an affogato espresso with a scoop of vanilla.

It would be tough to find a country more serious about its coffee than Colombia, and Macondo focuses entirely on beans from there. Even the brand’s vibes are puro Colombiano, with bright yellow walls lined with burlap sacks of coffee beans and hand-drawn artworks all around that might make you feel like you are in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s world. With four locations around Miami (and another on the West Coast) it’s officially a franchise now, with owner Fabio Caro combining those strong Colombian-bred beans with the specialty coffees Americans adore. 

Founder Michael Gesser took his talents from Alaska to North Miami and roasts his own beans out of a high-brow Sivetz Fluid Bed Coffee Roaster. Not only does this place have fancy coffee stuff, but it's also got a brick oven that produces some damn fine pizza and lovely weekend brunch that’s available to enjoy outside on the patio.

“Specialty coffee, tattoo lobby, working lounge & lifestyle café.” There’s one thing for sure about White Rose: You won’t find another coffee shop like it. The space is also home to Ocho Placas Tattoo Company, The Betancourt Gallery and Palm Film Lab, so you’ll see plenty of creative types weaving in and out at any hour of the day. The coffee shop is a hotbed for local brands: you could grab pair a gold milk latte with a box of Milly’s Empanadas or your Espresso Fino pour over with cookies from local bakers. They do some serious coffee art here too, although the sweet tooths out there should order the cafe bombon, a double shot with condensed milk.

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With locations in Midtown, Brickell and the Gables, Pasion is a fun time for people who are incredibly picky about their coffee or want to explore where they like their beans to come from. Your visit starts with choosing the country of origin of your brew, including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico. They’re all listed above the register alongside tasting notes and acidity levels. Then it’s on to choosing your brewing style: espresso, colada, latte or dark and large. The selection isn’t as extensive as the coffee offerings but sandwiches, wraps and salads are available for a quick bite. 

A coffee shop with a sweet tooth. There’s normal coffee too, but we come here for the Oreo-topped cappuccino and the on-tap coconut cold brew. It’s kind of tough to order the regular ol’ American pour-over with options like that. Feeling nostalgic? There’s also a Campfire S'mores Latte topped with a toasted marshmallow. Now that you know that exists, you have to try it.

While Miami's coffee game is strong, the drive-through is still reserved largely for the chains. Blackbird wants to change that, serving coffee drinks from a drive-through window on Biscayne in North Miami Beach. As the name suggests, there are also craft energy drinks, smoothies, sweets and the ambitiously named “Best Drink Ever,” described on the menu simply as “a delicious mystery, worthy of your attention.” We don’t want to spoil it for you, but there’s whipped cream involved. 14200 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami Beach

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This Israeli cafe bills itself as a place for coffee and friends, but it’s more than that. Go for all-day breakfast, cold-drip coffee and Middle Eastern food with a Miami flair—like salmon challah bruschetta, rugelach cake and three kinds of arepas: sabich, cheese and feta-avocado. If the friendly atmosphere doesn’t make you an instant fan, the fudgy babka will.

Get sugared up at this kitschy shop and coffee bar serving 20-plus flavors of Brazilian brigadeiros: truffle-like balls made from condensed milk, butter and chocolate and covered in chocolate sprinkles. While these treats are the focus, the coffee shouldn’t be missed—plus it subs in as dessert. Get a cup of java rimmed with chocolate, dulce de leche or crushed cookies and brigadeiros. Going for a cappuccino? Try it with a ring of Nutella and chocolate sprinkles for an extra-sweet caffeinated boost.