Breezeblock Coffee — Restaurant in Miami

It’d be great if the $14 pour overs were made correctly. I’ve never seen a contact time for a professional brew go over 7 minutes. If you’ve created a new recipe I’m open to hearing it but the last thing this industry needs are baristas who are delusional about their skills. I can handle snobbery when the coffee is dialed but it’s laughable to hear how smug and pretentious this staff is when they can’t even dial in pour overs. Perhaps the espresso is dailed in but I think the term is latte artist not barista at this location. The guy with the long shaggy hair made my pour over and it’s not the first time I’ve witnessed the contact time going over 7 minutes. For $14 plus tip I expect the coffee to be dialed in at the very least. Don’t think of it like a bad customer experience. Think of it like wasting specialty coffee because your staff can’t make a pour over correctly. When I asked the barista they insisted it was the regular recipe but I’ve never seen a brewers cup or any legitimate hand brew station go over 7 minutes unless it’s a no bypass brew. If you’re looking no for expensive pretentiousness with no customer service and lack luster bar skills this is the place for you. Just because a customer doesn’t complain in the moment doesn’t mean they won’t tell their friends. Ultimately it’s just a stain on the baristas who care and work towards professional standards. But hey join the club of pretentious baristas who don’t have an sca cert who believe they know everything. It makes a great experience for...

This place is disgusting. For starters, there was an alarm in the building that wouldn’t stop going off due to “construction”. It was so loud and unpleasant I couldn’t even enjoy my coffee or my food. Additionally, all the tables were extremely dirty. There was nowhere that I could sit that had a clean table. I had to end up moving to the couch because I didn’t want my food touching the table. They were also out of avocado toasts because the avocados were “too hard”, which I knew they weren’t by the way because they were pitch black. The barista was also weird. She kept staring at me when I spoke and it was a little much. The coffee shop inside ig a hotel is so ratchet. They didn’t even attempt to make the atmosphere nice. ON TOP OF EVERYTHING, THE BARISTA WOULD NOT STOP COUGHING AND TOUCHING EVERYTHING!! She did not watch her hands to make my coffee or hand me my utensils!!! She wasn’t even wearing a mask!! This is disgusting especially during times of Covid and it makes the entire experience so much worse!!!! I’m sorry but this place is just not it. They are trying to make an attempt at being natural and hip but are mixing it with the modern hotel and it just DOES NOT make sense! I don’t even care about how this place looks. None of the staff was wearing a mask and were coughing. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable and so disgusted in one place. Please wear a mask and please do not cough into the customers coffee, food, and...

Breezeblock is a unicorn in the Miami Specialty Coffee industry.

The coffees are exceptional because they are roasted by Counter Culture, a company known for the highest standards of quality and consistency, but that's not automatically a formula for a great cafe. For the experience to be exceptional, those beans have to be brewed by baristas who both know what they are doing AND (if you're lucky) do it with warmth and hospitality.

This is exactly what happens at Breezeblock. Your coffee makes it to you in the way that everyone from the farmer to the roaster to the barista intended for it to be executed.

I've been to Breezeblock when it was packed during their busiest hours and the staff there is warm, professional and great at what they do. Matty Haigler, in particular, stands out as a true hospitality star. He "gets" that this business is about service and warmth and customers. It doesn't hurt that he is also a champion barista and regularly wins latte art competitions locally. Skills and personality and professionalism? Yup. The whole place is a harmonious, warm, inviting, unicorn...