Coffee & Bakery Run

Independent French bakery and cafe in downtown West Palm Beach, useful for a croissant-and-coffee pause before the route turns south.

Little Havana Cuban coffee counter with cafecitos, cortaditos, and coladas close enough to Calle Ocho to feel like a Miami-specific ritual.

Coral Gables bakery and cafe known for naturally leavened bread, pastries, and a neighborhood pace that fits a slow Florida morning.

French bakery, café, and lifestyle brand founded in New York by Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte, with a Miami Beach outpost that moved into the Sunset Harbour neighborhood — the same block Panther Coffee occupied for 13 years before their February 2026 lease-dispute closure. Fresh-baked breads and pastries, coffee program, weekday breakfast and lunch spanning quiches, hearty salads, and sandwiches. Best known for the nutty chocolate chip cookie that turned into a national signature.

Small-town coffee shop tucked one block off US-27 in downtown Moore Haven — one of the few active local spots on the 27 Run's west-of-Lake-Okeechobee stretch. Espresso, drip, and rotating summer specials, plus a booth at the local Riverside Market when it runs. Part of the "27" road-brand family the route picks up between Belle Glade and Lake Placid — small-shop, small-town; check Instagram (@olde27coffeeco) for current hours before you route there.

Indie coffee shop in downtown Hollywood's walking district, on the corner of Harrison and 20th. Consistently one of the highest-rated coffee stops in Broward — 4.8-star average across 168+ Yelp reviews. Menu leans healthy-and-scratch: organic espresso, cakes and brownies and donuts and cookies made in-house, gluten-free banana bread, avocado toast, chicken avocado sandwiches. Also carries the increasingly common mushroom-coffee for the wellness crowd.

Family-owned Las Olas florist since 1976 that grew into a coffee-and-wine bar without giving up the flower shop out front. The family added antiques and memorabilia over the decades, then coffee, then a full breakfast menu, then wine and cocktails after dark — every layer stacked on top of the last, none of them subtracted. Fresh flowers and a full espresso program pour out of the same room, which is exactly the kind of Fort Lauderdale-with-history vibe A1A goes looking for.

Grassy Key coffee pause with a local roadside feel, landing before the route gets into the busier Marathon marina stretch.

Single-stop Islamorada cafe with coffee, breakfast, baked goods, and the kind of low-key Keys patio break that works between bridge miles.

West Palm's original microroaster, opened March 2013 on the 500 block of Clematis by nightlife operator Rodney Mayo (the same Rodney Mayo who reopened this end of the street with Respectable Street in 1987) and coffee guy Sean Scott, formerly of Habatat Coffee Co. Small-batch single origins and house espresso blends roasted on-site daily, poured in a big, high-ceilinged, art-covered room that stays open late for craft beer and wine once the coffee crowd thins. Now three locations across South Florida but Clematis is the mothership and the roasting HQ.

Key West bakery in the old-town grid, with bread, pastries, sandwiches, and a neighborhood feel away from the loudest tourist blocks.

Downtown Stuart indie since 2000 — Marlene Gordon and Beth Novins converted an Osceola Street storefront into a scratch-bake, farm-forward cafe that has held down the morning-through-lunch shift ever since. Weekday-breakfast rush of downtown workers, Saturday brunch line down the sidewalk. Menu leans healthy but generous: omelets, sandwiches, salads, and pastry cases stocked from the on-site bakery.

A German bakery and beer-garden stop in Lake County, strong enough to anchor the coffee-and-bakery side of the Central Florida expansion.