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Coffee distributors in Miami

Miami has a reputation as the coffee gateway of the Americas, and the reputation is doing some work. The green coffee trade here is largely run by companies headquartered somewhere else, and the trading house that made the city a hub wound itself up in 2020. What is genuinely Miami-owned is the roasting. Seventeen suppliers below, thirteen of them roasting in Miami-Dade.

  • 17 suppliers, verified in September 2026 against each company's own website.
  • Thirteen roasters, three office coffee services, one green importer. Exactly two of the seventeen sell unroasted coffee.
  • The two Cuban brands most Miami operators pour are owned in Ohio and delivered under one contract. That is on this page too.
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Supremo Coffee Special

Every coffee distributor we verified in Miami

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 14 of 17 publish a phone number and 16 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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Colonial Coffee Roasters

Regional distributorAllapattah

A wholesale coffee roaster in Allapattah selling to restaurants, hospitality and other foodservice distributors, with an International Coffee brand aimed at high-volume accounts. The family traces three generations to Bucaramanga, Colombia, where the founder's grandfather was the region's largest green coffee exporter, and the current owner has run it since 1987. Coffee is cupped through purchasing, roasting and packaging, and packed under a nitrogen flush that holds oxygen below five percent.

  • Three generations, from Bucaramanga, Colombia
  • Private label and its own International Coffee brand
  • Nitrogen flush packaging, oxygen held under 5 percent

Named programmes

International Coffee

Serves: Restaurants, Hospitality, Food service distributors

Address
3250 N.W. 60th Street, Miami, FL, 33142
Phone
(305) 634-1843
Visit colonialcoffee.com

Escondido Specialty Coffee

Local specialistAirport West

A vertically integrated Miami roaster that grows its own coffee. Escondido imports directly from Finca San Jose in Ataco, El Salvador, a family farm it says produces over 250,000 pounds a year of specialty grade coffee scoring 85 or above, and roasts near the airport with capacity it puts at over a million pounds a year. It sells roasted wholesale to restaurants, cafes, hotels and caterers on a 30 pound minimum, offers private label, and sells green by the pound to other roasters.

  • Own family farm in Ataco, El Salvador
  • Sells green coffee as well as roasted
  • 30 lb wholesale minimum, free warehouse pickup

Named programmes

Finca San JoseThe Escondido BlendCubano Roast

Serves: Restaurants, Cafes, Hotels and caterers

Address
6746 NW 72nd Ave, Miami, FL, 33166
Phone
(786) 221-9098
Visit escondidospecialtycoffee.com

Per'La Specialty Roasters

Local specialistOlympia Heights

A Miami roast-to-order specialty roaster whose wholesale programmes run to hotels, restaurants, offices and hospitality groups across the United States. Per'La starts before a cafe opens, with consulting, technician support for equipment and barista training, and takes on private label and co-branded packaging for brands that want their own blend.

  • Wholesale programmes for hotels, restaurants and offices
  • Consulting, equipment technicians and barista training
  • Private label and co-branded packaging

Serves: Hotels, Restaurants, Offices, Hospitality partners

Address
4657 SW 71st Ave, Miami, FL, 33155
Phone
(305) 909-0932
Visit drinkperla.com

La Vela Coffee

Local specialist

A woman and family-owned specialty roaster in Miami, carrying four generations of coffee roasting that began supplying gourmet restaurants in Caracas, Venezuela in the 1950s before the family relocated to the United States in the late 2000s. Its wholesale programme covers beans, staff training, private labelling and machines from Rancilio, Gaggia and Eversys that its own team installs and services. It publishes no street address.

  • Woman and family-owned, four generations
  • Roots supplying restaurants in Caracas in the 1950s
  • Installs and services Rancilio, Gaggia and Eversys machines

Serves: Cafes, Restaurants, Hotels, Events

Address
Miami, FL
Phone
(305) 677-2966
Visit lavelacoffee.com

Supremo Coffee Special

Local specialistHialeahEst. 1990

A Hialeah roaster that dates its coffee roasting tradition to 1990, selling specialty coffee and espresso blends wholesale to businesses and organisations. Private label is a stated part of the offer, aimed at operators who want their own brand on a Latin-style premium espresso.

  • Roasting tradition dated to 1990
  • Specialty and espresso blends sold wholesale
  • Private label under the customer's own brand

Serves: Restaurants, Businesses and organizations

Address
2495 W 80th St, Bay 1, Hialeah, FL, 33016
Phone
(305) 820-5520
Visit supremocoffee.com

Great Circle Coffee

Local specialistLittle River

A Little River roaster that builds custom coffee programmes for cafes, restaurants, hotels, offices and hospitality teams, taking on coffee bar layout, equipment selection, menu development and service flow rather than only supplying beans.

  • Custom programmes for cafes, restaurants, hotels and offices
  • Takes on bar layout, equipment and menu development
  • Roasts north of downtown on NE 56 Street

Serves: Cafes, Restaurants, Hotels, Offices

Address
382 NE 56 Street, Miami, FL, 33137
Phone
(305) 603-8189
Visit greatcirclecoffee.com

Panther Coffee

Regional distributorWynwoodEst. 2010

The roaster that opened Miami's specialty scene, founded in Wynwood in 2010 by Leticia and Joel Pollock after a 2008 visit convinced them the city had plenty of Cuban coffee shops and no specialty. It now runs locations across Florida, New York and Michigan and supplies a wholesale network of cafes, restaurants, hotels and markets through its own ordering portal, with orders placed before 2pm shipping the same day. It publishes no phone number.

  • Founded in Wynwood in 2010
  • Wholesale portal, orders before 2pm ship the same day
  • Locations in Florida, New York and Michigan

Serves: Cafes, Restaurants, Hotels, Markets

Address
2390 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL, 33127
Visit panthercoffee.com

Vice City Bean

Local specialistOvertownEst. 2016

Established in Miami in 2016 and roasting locally, Vice City Bean runs three cafes and a wholesale programme for cafes, restaurants and offices. It controls its coffee from green through to final roast, and offers training, support and equipment selection to accounts building a coffee programme. It publishes no phone number.

  • Established in Miami in 2016, roasts locally
  • Wholesale for cafes, restaurants and offices
  • Training, support and equipment selection

Serves: Cafes, Restaurants, Offices

Address
1657 N. Miami Ave, Miami, FL, 33136
Visit vicecitybean.com

Múcaro Coffees

Local specialistMiami GardensEst. 2012

A Miami Gardens roaster running a lab and roasting facility, crafting coffee in Miami since 2012. Its wholesale side sells roasted coffee, sells and finances commercial equipment from La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, Victoria Arduino, Sanremo, Ceado, Mazzer, Mahlkönig, PUQ, BUNN and Eversys, and trains partner baristas through its own coffee programme. Its site names no customer type, so this listing carries none.

  • Lab and roasting facility in Miami Gardens
  • Sells and finances La Marzocco, Eversys and BUNN equipment
  • Barista training through its own coffee programme
Address
15908 NW 48th Ave, Miami Gardens, FL, 33014
Phone
(888) 682-2767
Visit mucarocoffees.com

That Coffee Roasters

Local specialistMiami GardensEst. 2011

A family-owned South Florida roaster founded in 2011. Founder and master roaster Juan Calderon came to Miami in the 1990s intending to open a roastery and brought the family with him. The portfolio runs to Colombian coffees, micro-lots and espresso blends, and the company asks directly whether you need coffee for a restaurant, shop or business.

  • Family-owned, founded 2011
  • Founder and master roaster Juan Calderon
  • Colombian coffees, micro-lots and espresso blends

Serves: Restaurants, Shops, Businesses

Address
4980 NW 165 ST Unit A6, Miami Gardens, FL, 33014
Phone
(305) 821-8811
Visit thatcoffeeroasters.com

Burke Brands

Regional distributorOjusEst. 2004

A Miami roaster and private-label manufacturer that has been roasting specialty coffee in the city since 2004, describing itself as a coffee grower with high-capacity small batch roasting and packaging, a marketing department and its own cupping lab. It builds its business around private label and distributor partners, with EDI order processing, customised regional packaging, AIB food safety certification and CCOF organic certification.

  • Roasting in Miami since 2004
  • Private label and distributor partners, with EDI ordering
  • AIB Food Safety Certified and CCOF Organic Certified

Named programmes

Don Pablo CoffeeSubtle Earth Organic CoffeePablo's PrideMyCoffee

Serves: Private label clients, Distributor partners

Address
521 NE 189th Street, Miami, FL, 33179
Phone
(305) 249-5628
Visit burkebrands.com

Allcoffee

Local specialistOpa-locka

A Cuban, Latin and Italian coffee roaster operating as Coffee Unlimited LLC out of Opa-locka. Its Cafe Real line is presented as the premier choice of cafeterias and restaurants in South Florida, roasted to a family recipe the company says has been secret for decades, and it also roasts an Arabica and Robusta blend for Italian espresso. This is a roaster built for the cafecito trade rather than the specialty one.

  • Cafe Real aimed at South Florida cafeterias and restaurants
  • Cuban, Latin and Italian lines from one roastery
  • Trades as Coffee Unlimited LLC

Named programmes

Cafe RealCafe La CarretaMazzucco

Serves: Cafeterias, Restaurants

Address
12815 NW 45 Ave, Unit 6-B, Miami, FL, 33054
Phone
(305) 685-6856
Visit allcoffee.com

La Colada Gourmet

Local specialistLittle HavanaEst. 2016

A family business founded in 2016 on Calle Ocho in Little Havana, named for la colada, the shared Cuban coffee it calls the best known in Miami. It roasts daily in the Cuban style from 100 percent Arabica grown above 4,800 feet on certified plantations, serves more than twenty coffee recipes built on traditional Cuban blends at the store, and takes wholesale enquiries by email. It publishes no phone number and names no customer type.

  • Founded 2016 on Calle Ocho in Little Havana
  • Roasted daily Cuban style, 100 percent Arabica
  • Wholesale enquiries taken by email
Address
1518 Southwest 8th Street, Miami, FL, 33135
Visit lacoladagourmet.com

The Coffee Vault

Local specialistHialeah

A green coffee importer in Hialeah specialising in Venezuelan microlots and other origins, selling to roasters. It calls its Florida operation The Miami Bridge and holds inventory in climate-controlled warehouses in the state, so a roaster can buy from local stock instead of waiting on an import cycle. It also roasts to order and ships from Miami.

  • Green coffee importer holding Florida stock
  • Venezuelan microlots with farm-level traceability
  • Roasts to order and ships from Miami

Serves: Roasters

Address
1680 W 33rd Place, Hialeah, FL, 33012
Phone
(786) 603-0741
Visit thecoffeevault.shop

The Gourmet Coffee Company

Regional distributorMiami GardensEst. 2007

An office coffee service and breakroom supply company working across Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties since 2007. Uniformed service staff replenish and rotate stock, clean the coffee area and deep clean the machine on each visit, and an auto-replenishment system holds par levels against monitored consumption. The catalogue runs past coffee to snacks, sodas, juices, creamers, teas, soups, paper, plastic and janitorial supplies.

  • Office coffee and breakroom supply since 2007
  • Auto-replenishment against monitored par levels
  • Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties

Serves: Offices

Address
999 NW 159 Drive, Miami Gardens, FL, 33169
Phone
(305) 698-0990
Delivers
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties
Visit thegourmetcoffeeco.com

Best Office Coffee Service

Regional distributorKendall

A managed office coffee company covering Miami-Dade workplaces with coffee, espresso, water, ice and breakroom service. It sells the programme rather than the machine, letting buyers compare more than thirty equipment brands, and handles installation, maintenance and ongoing optimisation. Coverage runs across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and into Dallas-Fort Worth.

  • Managed office coffee, water, ice and breakroom service
  • Compares more than 30 equipment brands
  • Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Dallas-Fort Worth

Serves: Offices, Workplaces

Address
13130 SW 130th Terrace, Miami, FL, 33186
Phone
(305) 238-7292
Delivers
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and Dallas-Fort Worth
Visit bestocs.com

Miami Coffee Services

Local specialistDowntown

A Miami-Dade office coffee service built around bean-to-cup machine rental billed at 99 cents a cup with the machine and maintenance included, instead of a fixed equipment lease. It uses Castillo and Caturra beans it says are bought direct from Colombia and roasted at origin rather than resold from a distributor, and names Brickell, Coconut Grove, Doral, Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Aventura, Wynwood, Key Biscayne, Pinecrest and Kendall as its service areas.

  • 99 cents a cup with the machine included
  • Castillo and Caturra beans bought direct and roasted at origin
  • Local Miami-Dade service team

Serves: Offices

Address
66 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL, 33130
Phone
(786) 659-4164
Delivers
Miami-Dade County
Visit miamicoffeeservices.com

Three businesses share this search, and only one of them is local

Wholesale coffee in Miami is not one trade. It is three, they sell different things to different buyers, and the search term does not distinguish between them. Sorting them is the first useful thing this page can do.

The largest by a distance is roasting. Thirteen of the seventeen companies below roast in Miami-Dade and sell the result wholesale, from Allapattah and Hialeah out to Miami Gardens and Opa-locka. The second is office coffee service, three companies that sell a machine, a route and a replenishment schedule rather than beans by the case. The third is green importing, and it is the one this page cannot fill.

That last gap is the finding, not a hole in the research. Miami is the natural US landing point for Latin American coffee, and the names that come up when you search for it are mostly not Miami companies: GACT's own about page says it operates from New York headquarters, and De La Finca is in North Carolina. Of the seventeen here, exactly two sell green coffee. The Coffee Vault imports Venezuelan microlots into Hialeah and holds them in climate-controlled Florida warehouses so a roaster can buy from local stock, and Escondido imports from its own family farm in Ataco, El Salvador, and sells green by the pound alongside its roasted line.

  • Roasters selling wholesale, 13 of 17. The depth of this market. Most sell equipment, installation and barista training alongside the beans, which makes the account closer to a service contract than a price per pound.
  • Office coffee service, 3. The Gourmet Coffee Company, Best Office Coffee Service and Miami Coffee Services. A different product and a different buyer, arriving in the same search results.
  • Green coffee importers, 1. The Coffee Vault in Hialeah. Escondido also sells green, but as a roaster importing from its own farm. For a city with Miami's reputation, that is a short list.

The kinds of supplier on this page

Almost everything here is a local specialist or a regional company, and there is no broadline in the independent lane. That is what you would expect of a trade built on roasting: the barrier to entry is a roaster and a customer list, not a warehouse and a fleet, so the companies stay small and owner-run.

The regionals are the ones that outgrew a single account book. Colonial sells to other foodservice distributors as well as to restaurants. Panther has locations in Florida, New York and Michigan. Burke Brands manufactures private label with EDI order processing. The Gourmet Coffee Company and Best Office Coffee Service both run routes past Miami-Dade into Broward and Palm Beach, and Best OCS as far as Dallas-Fort Worth.

Supplier typeCatalogueCuttingMinimumDeliveryBest for
Local specialist12 hereNarrow, protein onlyCuts to your specificationUsually negotiableScheduled, local routesMenus where the cut is the dish
Regional distributor5 hereBroader, may run past proteinSome, varies by houseSet per accountMulti-state or multi-marketGroups wanting fewer accounts

The count column is computed from the listings above. The rest describes how each business model typically works, not a term any individual company has published. Minimums and delivery days are always set per account, so treat this as a shortlist tool, not a quote.

If you carry Bustelo and Pilon for price leverage, you have one supplier

This is the most useful thing on the page for anyone buying Cuban coffee in Miami, and it takes five dated documents to establish. Operators keep a second supplier so the first one has to compete. That only works if the two are actually separate companies.

Cafe Bustelo's own history page places its origin in New York, not Miami: Gregorio Bustelo was living in East Harlem, and by 1928 had opened a roasting storefront on 5th Avenue. The page does not mention Miami at all. The city's claim on the brand is real but narrower than it feels, and it runs through Rowland Coffee Roasters, the family company that owned it here. A Little Havana food tour operator's history dates the Tetley sale to 1963 and the sale on to Rowland to 2000. We could not confirm either from a primary source, so treat those two dates as the tour company's account rather than ours.

What is documented is the exit. On 16 May 2011 the J.M. Smucker Company announced it had completed the acquisition of Rowland's brands and business operations, a Miami-headquartered private company generating net sales in excess of 110 million dollars in calendar 2010, for 360 million dollars in cash and borrowings. Smucker consolidated manufacturing out of South Florida, and Daily Coffee News reported in April 2020 that the closure cut about 200 jobs. The building came back that year as a roastery for Mayorga Organics, a Maryland company, whose founder said publicly that Smucker still marketed the brand as Latino-owned and had kept a Miami address on the bags. We captured that for 2020, and nothing on Mayorga's site mentions Miami today, so it is history on this page rather than a listing.

Then the route. In September 2022 the Hoffmann Family of Companies, through a subsidiary of Stan's Coffee and Food Service, signed an agreement with Smucker to exclusively service Rowland's more than 1,400 direct store delivery clients in Florida for an initial term of ten years. So a Miami operator carrying both Cuban brands is buying from a public company in Ohio, delivered by a subsidiary of a Florida distributor owned by a Missouri family office, on one exclusive contract. Both brands, one supplier. Every roaster on this page is a genuinely separate second source, which is the practical reason the rest of this list matters.

The shape of Miami's supplier base

Counted from the 17 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Coffee17
Espresso14
Equipment5
Disposables2
Green coffee2
Training2
Cold brew1
Organic1
Tea1

17 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 17: most suppliers carry several.

Cafecito and specialty are not the same account

The sharpest division among the roasters is who they roast for, and it maps onto two Miami hospitality trades that mostly do not share suppliers.

The cafecito side is built on Cuban-style roasts sold into cafeterias and ventanitas. Allcoffee, trading as Coffee Unlimited out of Opa-locka, puts its Cafe Real line forward as the premier choice of South Florida cafeterias and restaurants, roasted to a family recipe it says has been secret for decades. La Colada Gourmet roasts daily in the Cuban style on Calle Ocho and takes wholesale enquiries by email. Even Escondido, otherwise a specialty importer, keeps a Cubano Roast on the shelf.

The specialty side arrived later and knows exactly when. Panther was founded in Wynwood in 2010 by Leticia and Joel Pollock, after a 2008 visit convinced them the city had plenty of Cuban coffee shops and no specialty at all. Per'La roasts to order and sends technicians and barista trainers. Great Circle takes on bar layout, equipment selection and menu development rather than only supplying beans. An operator running both a counter and a specialty programme should expect to open two accounts, and the filters above will separate them.

The other thing to expect is that the machine comes with the coffee. La Vela installs and services Rancilio, Gaggia and Eversys. Mucaro sells and finances La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, Victoria Arduino, Sanremo, Ceado, Mazzer, Mahlkonig, PUQ, BUNN and Eversys. That is a real difference from the meat and produce trades, where the supplier sells product and nothing else, and it changes what you are comparing between two quotes.

SupplierCoffeeEspressoEquipmentGreen coffeeTrainingDisposablesDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
Colonial Coffee Roasters
Escondido Specialty Coffee
Per'La Specialty Roasters
La Vela Coffee
Supremo Coffee Special
Great Circle Coffee
Panther Coffee
Vice City Bean
Múcaro Coffees
That Coffee Roasters
Burke Brands
Allcoffee
La Colada Gourmet
The Coffee Vault
The Gourmet Coffee Company
Best Office Coffee Service
Miami Coffee Services

A blank cell means the company does not list that line on its own site, not that it cannot get it. Most of these houses will source outside their published range for an account they want. Columns showing only one supplier are hidden to keep the grid readable.

1

Ask which trade the roaster is built for

A Cuban-style roaster and a specialty roaster are not substitutes for each other. Allcoffee and La Colada serve one, Panther and Per'La the other, and the filters above will split them.

2

Ask who installs and services the machine

La Vela, Mucaro, Great Circle, Per'La and Vice City Bean all handle equipment or training. A roaster who only ships beans leaves that to you, and it is not a small cost.

3

Ask whether you need a roaster at all

Three of the seventeen sell office coffee as a managed route with the machine included. Miami Coffee Services bills 99 cents a cup rather than leasing equipment. If you are buying for a workplace, that is your half of this page.

4

Check whether your two suppliers share an owner

Bustelo and Pilon do. So does any pairing where one of the names is a brand rather than a company. It is the first thing to check when you set up a second source.

The green gap, and where we drew the county line

The green trade is the honest gap. Coex Coffee International, a Miami company trading three million bags a year, told clients in July 2020 that it would proceed with an orderly liquidation after 40 years, and Bloomberg reported the letter. Third-party directories give Coex a street address, and both of the sources we found for it were dead pages, so we are not publishing one. What replaced that scale, if anything did, we could not verify, and we are not putting a port statistic on this page that we did not capture.

The metro line is Miami-Dade County. Six roasters that rank for this search are in Broward: Koffee Kult and Palm in Hollywood, Calusa in Oakland Park, Wells in Fort Lauderdale, Blooming Bean in Pompano Beach and 360F in Coral Springs. They are real companies and they will deliver to Miami. They are not Miami companies, and this directory is built on metros rather than on delivery radius, so they are recorded in our research notes as leads rather than listed here as rows.

Two smaller absences worth stating plainly. Miami Gourmet Coffee Distributors is the most literal match for this search term in the whole market, and it has no website we could find across 42 search passes, so there is nothing to verify and no listing. Eternity Coffee Roasters is gone: the store is unavailable and the location is closed. And four companies here carry no customer type at all, because their own sites name none. Burke Brands sells to private label clients and distributor partners, The Coffee Vault sells to roasters, and neither of those has a value in our filters. We left them blank rather than picking the nearest one.

  • Green coffee at scale. Coex liquidated in 2020 after 40 years and three million bags a year. Two verified green sellers remain on this page, and neither of them is a trading house.
  • Broward County roasters. Six of them rank for this search. Excluded because this is a Miami-Dade page, and named in our notes so the work is not lost.
  • Phone numbers for three roasters. Panther, Vice City Bean and La Colada publish none. Third-party listings have numbers for all three. We do not use those.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying coffee in Miami

24 comments quoted verbatim from public threads, researched specifically for this city rather than reused from elsewhere on the site.

r/Coffee161 points
Cuban coffee, source - South Floridian Or as Anthony Bourdain calls it, liquid crack.... small glasses so you don't OD on caffeine ;p You can get espresso in Miami, good shops like Panther, but 99% of the time you say espresso down there your going to be served Cuban style
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r/Miami45 points
Can confirm. The ventanita, while enjoyable (and with much better coffee), is an entire experience that I sometimes don’t have time for. Sometimes the convenience of popping through the drive through of the Starbucks right around the corner and grabbing a cold brew that I ordered on the app works much better for my schedule
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r/Miami16 points
Correct. Like saying English muffins only come from England. You can go to the grocery store and by some bustelo or pilon coffee. It is what you get at almost any Cafe when you ask for cuban coffee
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r/Miami4 points
Don’t buy coffee from Versailles. Buy my favorite La Llave from any grocery store. You can also go to any Cuban store like Navarro or Sédanos and get guava paste and Cuban crackers. Add some cream cheese and you have a traditional Cuban snack.
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r/Miami3 points
Cuban coffee in Miami is processed in the US. You can’t buy coffee from Cuba. Bustelo sells whole beans but they are expensive. Most pupular brands are Bustelo, La Llave and Pilón, but I hope you know what makes coffee “cuban” or “colada” is not just the coffee, is the preparation. Otherwise it’s just super bitter espresso
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r/espresso2 points
I live in South Florida and I too have wondered this. From what I can tell, and the sub may not like it.. 1. They use regular store bought beans, either Bustelo or Pilon. Roast date? Who cares. 2. obvs a load of sugar which is placed straight into the espresso cup and stirred together as the espresso runs into it (if possible) 3. then milk is added, non frothed/steamed. Fancier Cuban places will froth the milk but the real Cuban cafes and cafecito windows just throw the milk straight in. So you have 3 main types of Cuban coffee, below.. 1. Cafe con leche, basically a Cuban latte as followed above 2. Cortadito, a cortado, don’t forget the spoonfuls of sugar. 3. Colada, just espresso and sugar, usually about 4 shots, meant to be shared. This stuff is crack! Pretty sure this is how it goes, but then again, I don’t work in a Cuban cafe.
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Pulled from Miami threads across r/Miami, r/Coffee, r/espresso, r/SpecialtyCoffee and r/coffeeshopowners. Its own corpus: no comment here appears on any other page of this site. Comments are unedited and link back to the original thread. They are individual experiences, not evidence about any distributor in general, and we deliberately do not aggregate them into a score.

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Questions

Coffee distributors in Miami: common questions

Who are the biggest wholesale coffee roasters in Miami?

By reach rather than by revenue, which nobody here publishes: Colonial Coffee Roasters in Allapattah sells to restaurants, hospitality and other foodservice distributors and has been under its current owner since 1987. Panther Coffee, founded in Wynwood in 2010, now runs locations in Florida, New York and Michigan and takes wholesale orders through its own portal. Burke Brands has roasted in Miami since 2004 and manufactures private label with EDI ordering, AIB food safety certification and CCOF organic certification. Escondido roasts what it grows on its family farm in El Salvador, with capacity it puts at over a million pounds a year.

Who owns Cafe Bustelo and Cafe Pilon?

The J.M. Smucker Company, in Orrville, Ohio. Smucker completed the 360 million dollar acquisition of Rowland Coffee Roasters, the Miami family company that owned both brands, on 16 May 2011, then consolidated manufacturing out of South Florida at a cost of about 200 local jobs. Since September 2022 the Florida direct store delivery route for both brands has been run by a subsidiary of Stan's Coffee and Food Service, part of the Hoffmann Family of Companies, under a ten-year exclusive covering more than 1,400 clients. If you carry both brands as a hedge, there is one supplier and one contract behind them.

Is Cafe Bustelo actually from Miami?

Not originally. Its own history page says Gregorio Bustelo was living in East Harlem in New York and had opened a roasting storefront on 5th Avenue by 1928, and the page does not mention Miami anywhere. The Miami chapter came through Rowland Coffee Roasters, and it ended in 2011 when Smucker bought the business and closed the local plant. The founder of the roastery that later took over the building said publicly that Smucker had kept a Miami address on the bags.

Where can I buy green coffee wholesale in Miami?

The verified answer is shorter than the city's reputation suggests. The Coffee Vault in Hialeah imports Venezuelan microlots and other origins and holds stock in climate-controlled Florida warehouses, so a roaster can buy locally instead of waiting on an import cycle. Escondido Specialty Coffee sells green by the pound from its own family farm in Ataco, El Salvador. Most of the other green names that surface in this search are headquartered elsewhere, and GACT's about page says it operates from New York. Coex Coffee International, the Miami trader that moved three million bags a year, announced an orderly liquidation in July 2020 after 40 years.

What is the difference between a cafecito roaster and a specialty roaster here?

Different roasts, different customers, and usually different companies. The cafecito trade is built on Cuban-style dark roasts sold into cafeterias and ventanitas: Allcoffee's Cafe Real line is pitched at South Florida cafeterias and restaurants, and La Colada Gourmet roasts daily in the Cuban style on Calle Ocho. The specialty side is newer, and Panther can date it: its founders visited in 2008, found plenty of Cuban coffee shops and no specialty, and opened in Wynwood in 2010. An operator running both a ventanita counter and a specialty programme should expect two accounts.

Do Miami coffee suppliers provide equipment and training?

Most of them, and it is often the real difference between two otherwise similar accounts. La Vela installs and services Rancilio, Gaggia and Eversys machines. Mucaro sells and finances La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, Victoria Arduino, Sanremo, Ceado, Mazzer, Mahlkonig, PUQ, BUNN and Eversys, and trains partner baristas. Per'La sends technicians and barista trainers and will start before the cafe opens. Great Circle takes on bar layout, equipment selection and menu development. Vice City Bean offers training, support and equipment selection to accounts building a programme.

Is this directory paid or independent?

No distributor paid to be listed and there are no affiliate links to any of them. The directory is published by VoiceOrder Solutions, an ordering software company, and that relationship is disclosed in the footer of every page and on our about page. Listings are ordered by supplier type, not by any commercial relationship.

How was this list of Miami coffee distributors built?

We ran 42 search passes across roasting, green importing, cafecito supply and office coffee service in Miami-Dade, then captured each candidate company's own website and read the details off it, in September 2026. The county line is deliberate, and six Broward roasters that rank for this search are recorded in our notes rather than listed here. Companies whose sites were dead, parked or blocked are named in those notes too, including one capture that turned out to be a gambling site squatting on a lapsed coffee domain, so that nobody cites it later.

A note on what is missing

Two known gaps. Greco and Sons, a large Chicago Italian foodservice distributor now being acquired by Sysco, is not listed because its site blocked our capture and we would not write it up from third-party sources. Stock Yards is a US Foods brand rather than an independent distributor, so it appears under US Foods rather than as its own listing. If you run a Miami coffee distribution business and we have missed you, that is an omission rather than a judgement.

Listings verified September 2026. Details change; always confirm terms on a call.