We have a guide to Miami’s classic restaurants, but this city’s old-school Cuban spots deserve their own guide. These are the Cuban cafes, diners, and restaurants that introduced Miami to fritas, cuban sandwiches, and pastelitos. They changed the city’s culture. They changed the way we drink coffee. One of them even invented the ventanita. Some of these places make great food. And at others, food really isn’t the point at all. But all of the restaurants below—organized from oldest to newest—are worth checking out, because despite everything that’s changed in this city, they’ve endured.
