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Coffee shops in Miami, FL

Every shop here is open and doing something right, so treat it like a coffee crawl through Miami, in person or virtually: study how each bar is laid out, read the menu, and get a feel for the brand from their own site. Shops that roast their own beans are marked.

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Coffee shops & roasters

Crawl these cafes and roasters for bar layout, menu, and brand ideas.

Coffee carts

Coffee carts, trucks, and trailers working this market — a lower-overhead way in.

Miami market snapshot

The customer base behind the coffee scene — who lives here, what they earn, and how many coffee shops already serve them. Use it to size up demand before you commit.

Population459,745
Median household income$62,462
Median age39.3 yrs
Bachelor's degree or higher37.4%Adults 25+
Unemployment5.2%
Avg. commute27.3 min
Coffee shops per 100k4.420 in our directory

Miami has 4.4 coffee shops per 100k residents. That's below the directory median of 6.3 — a relatively underserved market with room to add a shop.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates (via Census Reporter), 2024 release. Coffee-shop density is ShopLaunch directory data. Figures describe the Census place (Miami, FL); college, airport, industry, and other signals are coming in a later pass.

Similar coffee markets

Cities whose demographics most resemble Miami, ranked by an objective match across population, income, age, education, unemployment, commute, and coffee-shop density. A close model for what might work here.

Permits

Permits in Miami

Most coffee shops, carts, and trailers in Miami fall under Miami-Dade County, where the Florida DBPR, Division of Hotels and Restaurants, District 1 (Miami) issues the food and mobile-vending permits you need to open. The county guide lays out the exact permits, offices, and fees in the order to tackle them.

Miami-Dade County permit guideAll Florida permit counties

Local lists & guides

How local writers and city magazines cover Miamicoffee. Use them to cross-check the shops above. They're a different lens on the same scene, not our ranking.

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