Cuban Coffee Windows of Miami

by Jacob Katel

I rode bike and drove to every coffee window on SW 8th St from South Beach to the Everglades and other major coffee windows and cafeterias all over Miami and photographed everything. It's all in this book, along with interviews and a visit to the sugar cane fields near Lake Okeechobee. Ventanitas (literally "little windows") are walkup coffeeshops most often attached to larger indoor cafeterias. They are a unique cultural phenomenon in South Florida. There are approximately 60 coffee windows on Calle Ocho between South Beach and The Everglades which equals on average a coffee window every couple of blocks. That's a lot of concrete. That's a lot of coffee. That's a lot of coffee windows.

406 pages, Hardcover

Published March 5, 2017

Reviews

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting Little book,It is a hardcover with no dustjacket up to near 400 pages. filled with pictures and some text although Westchester is a community not a city as of this writing, and it focuses on Cafeterias on Eighth Street(Calle Ocho) La Carreta on Bird Road is missing but the Main one is here, Montes De Oca is featured, Versailles,El Potin although Party Cake,Cakeworld ,Vickys ,Rickys and CAO (Cuban American Original-which came later) are not featured. towards the end of the book there is a list of several as of publication of different ones visited. Only thing I did not like was talk of Revolution(in regards to haiti) and the book should have stayed on topic on Cuban cafe windows nonetheless an interesting and excellent addition to my library. HIghly Recommended to my Fellow Cubans.