Marketplace Cafe

Lavazza coffee beside a French-style pastry case

Coffee and pastry come first. Marketplace Cafe is the resort café at Trump National Doral Miami, run as a French-style pastry shop, and its clearest marker is the Lavazza specialty coffee programme sitting alongside the case. That combination sets the register: a counter rather than a dining room, with the baked goods and the espresso doing the defining work, and everything else on the menu arranged around them.

A counter built for flexible orders

Around the pastry sits a broader convenience menu. Breakfast sandwiches, smoothies, wraps, salads, pizza, gelato and snacks cover most of the day, and Trump Signature wines extend the counter well past the morning. The tone is casual and quick, built for guests moving through the property rather than settling in, which is why the same counter can serve a morning espresso, a light lunch and an afternoon gelato without changing character. Within a large resort, its usefulness is range at speed. Gelato and snacks also make it a stop for people who are not eating a meal at all, which is a good part of what a resort café is for.

Start with coffee and a pastry

Order the Lavazza specialty coffee with a French-style pastry, the pairing the café is built around and the most accurate version of what it does. From there the menu opens out by time of day: a breakfast sandwich makes the morning substantial, a smoothie keeps it light, wraps and salads handle lunch, and pizza, gelato or a glass of Trump Signature wine take it later. Nothing about the format changes between those moments, which is the point of a resort café counter.