By Fernie Ruano Jr.
The foamy and creamy café con leches; The Swiss cheese dripping on your chewy-Cuban sandwiches; the lemony black beans over a bed of steamy white rice.
If you were a mid-90’s club hopper in South Beach and/or happened to live amongst late-night revolvers, statuesque European models and wide-eyed tourists wearing floppy hats you too probably spent a few bucks in hopes of killing a buzz, not to mention going home to your wife, at David’s Café, the longtime carb-powered Cuban eatery which earlier this year closed shop on Collins Avenue because owners feared nearby construction would hammer the sale of batidos and croquestas, just two years after closing their Lincoln Road location due to skyrocketing rent fees.
Well, start partying as if it were 1 a.m. on a summer’s night in 1996 and you just agreed to shove your tongue down your chunky, former high school mate’s throat in the middle of the dance floor at Cameo because she said she was picking up the tab at David Café’s, because word is the iconic Cuban spot will be reopening on the corner of Ninth Street and Alton Road. And you guessed it…surrounded by a lot of construction and really annoying noise.
But since detour signs and hard hats have never ever stopped anyone on South Beach from running anybody over and bringing you brand new businesses where you can spend your $$$$, the restaurant’s owners are moving so fast toward a reopening the “tacita” logo with café in it is already on one of the sidewalls of the location, next to “Cafecito is brewing” and “Coming Soon” signs. The building is also roped off and there’s an orange cone by the front entrance.
And that can only mean one thing: There’s a good chance you will be eating a tasty and well-pressed Cuban sandwich at David’s Café in the near future.
Do you want to know more about this 305-reeking, beach-bumming, Cuban food-obsessed dude? Well, then.. You can connect with Fernie @wordbyfernie (Twitter) and Fernie Ruano (Facebook). Who knows? If he really likes you
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