Cafe La Trova

Café La Trova occupies a stretch of Calle Ocho in the heart of Little Havana, and it functions as both a local institution and a destination for visitors at once, a combination few Miami rooms manage to hold onto for long. Julio Cabrera and his team of cantineros run the bar in the Cuban tradition, a specific discipline rather than a theme: cantinero service involves showmanship, precise pouring, and a hospitality style formed in pre-revolutionary Havana. Cabrera is one of the people most…