Little Havana Cultural and Tasting Tour in Miami

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Duration2h–3h

GroupUp to 30

Mobile ticketAccepted

Cuban history, five tastings, and the streets where the culture still lives

A guided walking tour through Little Havana in Miami led by a local guide with over 20 years in the neighborhood. You taste organic juice, Cuban pastries, colada coffee and Cuban soda; visit a historic guayabera store with its museum, a cigar lounge, an art gallery featured in the New York Times, and Domino Park. The tour runs two to three hours and includes a personal photographer.

2h–3h

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Little Havana's culture and tastes

Learn full history of Cuba
Taste organic juice and pastries
Visit original Guayebera store
Explore indoor cigar lounge
Visit famous art gallery
See classical salsa music venue
Enjoy Cuban Colada coffee
Discover Domino Park history

The Experience

Your guide meets you in Little Havana and starts with the full arc—Cuba from 1902 through the Castro era and back to the island before Spanish conquest in 1492. The neighborhood itself is the classroom: you walk Calle 8 and stop first for an organic juice tasting, then move into an authentic Cuban bakery where you taste a ham-filled croquette, guava-filled puff pastry and Cuban soda. The pastries are included; the guide has tasted hundreds of them and knows which ones matter.

You'll stand in a hidden gem café for the colada—Arabica beans roasted in-house, topped with espumita, the caramelized sugar that turns an ordinary espresso into something both sweet and very strong. The guide explains how coffee became famous on the island and where it actually came from. Then you enter an indoor cigar lounge with art by Manuel Bello and Aristides on the walls, and learn why Cuba still holds the world's best tobacco and how there's a legal way around the embargo. Next is the original guayabera store, Pepe Y Berta, operating in Little Havana for over 50 years—you see the four-pocket linen shirts and learn why that cut became central to Cuban fashion, and you get exclusive access to the store's museum experience.

The route passes the Ball & Chain, where Chet Baker, Count Basie and Billie Holiday made debuts, and takes you through an art gallery featured in the New York Times, holding thousands of dollars in original pieces and chandeliers and bar tops salvaged from the Cuban island. You see the Tower Theatre, established in 1935, now playing only classical salsa and cha cha cha. The tour ends at Domino Park—originally Antonio Maceo Park, then Maximo Gomez Park—where you learn why Cubans play dominoes and why this spot has been the local meetup since the 1960s. A personal photographer documents the day.

What’s included

Organic juice tasting.
ham-filled croquette and guava-filled puff pastry from an authentic Cuban bakery.
Cuban soda.
colada, the famous Cuban coffee made with roasted Arabica beans and caramelized sugar.
exclusive access to the guayabera store museum.
personal photographer for the day.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Little Havana Cultural and Tasting Tour

Is this one for you?This is a shared walking tour led by a guide who has lived in Little Havana for over 20 years and knows the neighborhood by name and history. You move at the guide's pace through stops that are built into the route—no choices to make about where to go or what to taste. Book this if you want the real story of the place told by someone who belongs there, and if you'd rather walk and taste than navigate on your own.