Cuban Coffee Starter Set

The Cuban Coffee Starter Set is for the person who's heard about cafecito their whole life and is finally ready to make it at home — or for the transplant who misses the ventanita and needs the full setup on the kitchen counter.

The set includes the essentials for brewing proper Cuban coffee: a stovetop espresso maker (cafetera / moka pot), a bag of dark-roasted Cuban-style ground coffee, sugar for whipping the espumita, and the small demitasse cups used to serve cafecito and cortadito. Everything needed to pull a shot, whip the foam, and pour a colada to share — no separate sourcing required.

Perfect For: housewarming, Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduation, care package, gifting to a first-time cafecito brewer.

Cultural Context: cafecito is not just coffee — it's the 3pm break that pulls coworkers to the breakroom, the after-dinner ritual at abuela's table, the small cup passed across the ventanita counter in Little Havana. For Cuban-Americans raised on it, the cafetera hissing on the stove is a sound from childhood. For someone marrying into a Cuban family, learning to make a proper cafecito with good espumita is a meaningful first step.

Pairs With: pastelitos de guayaba, tostada cubana, a slice of pan con mantequilla in the morning, or simply served black after a long Sunday family dinner.

Ships nationwide to Cuban-American families and curious newcomers wherever they are — from Hialeah to households far from any Cuban bakery.