The ground-floor café behind the porthole windows: Cuban coffee, pastelitos warm from the oven and a pressed sandwich worth crossing the street for.
Covers
28
Where
Ground floor, facing Ocean Drive
What to wear
Straight from the beach is fine
The room
The Porthole Café opens onto the sidewalk of Ocean Drive through the building's original round windows. Mornings start at the ventanita with cafecito, cortadito and café con leche, made on a two-group espresso machine with beans roasted in Little Havana. Guava-and-cheese pastelitos and croquetas come out of the oven from 7am.
Later in the day the counter turns to sandwiches, acai bowls and cold brew in a tall glass with condensed milk. Take it to the terrazzo bar inside, to a stool on the sidewalk, or upstairs to the pool.
The menu
8 dishes, priced per dish. Prices exclude sales tax.
Coffee
CafecitoSweetened Cuban espresso, the way the ventanita makes it$3
CortaditoEspresso cut with steamed milk$4
Café con lecheWith buttered Cuban toast$5.50
Condensed-milk cold brewTwelve-hour cold brew, tall glass, lots of ice$6.50
