Threefold Cafe

The flat white came first. Threefold opened in Coral Gables in 2014, brought to Miami by an Australian couple with a Melbourne café background, and it arrived when the city had barely a handful of specialty coffee options.

Melbourne-style coffee in Coral Gables

Coffee is central here, not an add-on. The programme is Melbourne-style specialty: locally roasted beans, traditional-sized espresso drinks rather than oversized ones, rotating single-origin pour-overs and cold brew. Flat white, cappuccino, latte, espresso, cold brew and iced coffee are the core orders, with fresh juices and smoothies rounding out the brunch list.

There is a roasting story behind it. One of the founders ran the coffee programme, and the pair partnered with local roasters Relentless Roasters before roasting their own. Deco Coffee Co. is the affiliated specialty coffee project, focused on sourcing, roasting, training and education, with most coffees single origin and direct source.

All-day breakfast and a full kitchen

The food covers breakfast, brunch, lunch and everything between, Australian-inspired and built on ingredients that change regularly. The kitchen is chef-driven, working with local and fresh produce, making much in house and sourcing the rest from local artisans.

Threefold started with snacks, pastries and light lunch beside the coffee, but the full kitchen in Coral Gables pushed breakfast forward until all-day breakfast came to define the place. That is the shift worth knowing: this is a café that grew a restaurant, not a restaurant that added coffee.

Order the flat white, then decide how long you are staying

Start with a flat white, the drink the Melbourne training shows in most clearly, and traditional-sized so the coffee is not lost in milk. A single-origin pour-over is the order when you want the rotating side of the programme, and cold brew or iced coffee fits a mid-day stop better than a full breakfast does.

From there the visit can go either way. Threefold runs as a hybrid between coffee shop and restaurant, with sit-down table service for food or just coffee, plus takeaway. Wi-Fi, a relaxed room and outdoor seating when it is available make it work for a mid-day laptop session as easily as for an all-day breakfast plate.