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Especially when it comes to their cafecito. you know, i d heard great things about this small, family-owned cuban coffee shop just down the street from domino park. so guess what? i m meeting ernesto, juliette, and yudith to find out what makes cuban coffee so damn good. hello, hello. hola, hola. - hi. hola. welcome to la colada gourmet. - beautiful place you got here. - oh, thank you. since we were in cuba, we always wanted to have our own business, but there, it was impossible to have your own private business. - right. - so this was the cuban-american dream, to own your own place. - we came here only nine years ago. - yeah, yeah. - and we here we go. - yeah. - we came here to miami. that s like, the perfect place to settle. because it s one of the biggest latin neighborhoods in the whole country. - that s amazing, yeah. when i come to miami, i feel like i m in a latin country. the warmth, the familiarity. - mm-hmm. - yeah. - immigration, especially from latin countries, has become s ....
Your country, your culture, and everyone you love behind, in search of a better future. and that decision takes guts, something miami cubans have in abundance. what makes cuban people so cool and special? - so cool. - what is the the thing, that thing? - coffee, i feel like it s really important. we drink coffee, oof in the morning, afternoon, after lunch, at nighttime. coffee, coffee, coffee. - so you re hyper people. - exactly. we re hyper people. you get that personality in there, mixed with the coffee. you re just - yeah. - it s a punch. all of our beans are 100% arabica coffee. what makes us different is that we roast our own beans here, fresh, in-house. it s really important. the freshness, the smooth finish. we do a dark roast. that nutty flavor, dark chocolate. - see, that s what i like. - you re not going to get that fruity. - you re such a connoisseur because that s exactly what i love about a good cup of coffee. - you re going to love our coffee then. - i think so. before ....
- oh, yeah. there s no bitterness. it s smooth, it s rich. you re right. it has a tiny little bit of chocolatey flavor to it. latin people love community, and we ve come up with all these little rituals to get connected, to talk, to share those moments. it s - to meet people. - yeah, yeah. we really live for that moment, for that connection. - exactly. when i was little, i remember, like, my friends or family members coming to my home. and the first thing you offer someone is coffee. do you want a little cafecito? yeah. otherwise it s considered impolite, you know? - not coming to your house again. [laughter] oh, that s delicious. oh, wow. - uh-huh. so café con leche. - mmm! oh, that s nice coffee. - all right, so here s something you ll easily get addicted to. cuban pastries. - you know that this is one of my favorite. - uh-huh. - desserts in the whole entire planet. - really? - smells good. mmm. that s amazing. ....
Mmm. that s amazing. i love it. - yeah? - welcome to the house of cuban coffee, my friend. - oh, thank you. thank you for having me. - thank you. - i m indulging. - so good. - it s bomb. it s bomb. - oh, thank you. - so how did you guys start this incredible place? - well, when we came here, they didn t know that much english. now they re they re pretty fluent. they defend themselves. they re ready to go out into the world. but in the beginning, i served as a translator. i feel like that was my first job. documents, school, anything that they needed, phone calls. it s like a bunch of processes when you immigrate. - right, so all of a sudden, you re like a lawyer, the accountant. - exactly. i m learning law - and how old are you about this time, like - 12, 13. and then we started the business when i was 14. so when we started, i was, like, a big part of the whole budgeting thing, the concept of the store, getting the licenses to start the business. - right. - so it was a lot for me. ....
Immigrants brought that tradition to miami, where coffee houses now remain at the center of the community. - most popular ones, do you want to hear them? - yeah, yeah, yeah. please. - we have café con leche. that s like very traditional to drink in the morning. we have cortadito, café bombon. and then we also do colada. - and what is a colada? - colada. ok. this was mostly invented here in miami in the 60s. these little cafecitos is because you re supposed to share them with people. - it s so thoughtful. - it s about sharing little moments with people, and that s what i feel like our latin and cuban culture is mostly about. this is colada. really nice dark roast espresso. and you have two spoonfuls of sugar. - gracias. thank you. - that s a latin thing too. the sweet coffee. - exactly. - right? - it s very cuban. - cin cin. - cin cin. - mmm. ....