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Key West Cuban Guide

FRI public-record essay for cuban restaurants in Key West.

Key West has 24 validated Cuban entries, including 0 with elevated safety overlays. This guide uses DBPR, OSS Places, Sunbiz enrichment, emergency-order history, ORSM severity context, and the unified closure resolver. 0 of 24 candidate evaluations were filtered before publication.

Updated 2026-08-31 14:37 UTC

By FRI Editorial Desk · Safety guide

Price and service-format claims are withheld. License seating, OSS category, and chain footprint are not observed menu prices; a future price analysis must use sourced menu/check data and local-market normalization.

Validated open entries 24 · ·
Confirmed closures 0 · ·
Inspection/safety overlays 0 · ·
Filtered candidates 0 · ·

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Cafeterias & Bakeries

Cafeterias & Bakeries

Ana's Café Cubano

531 Green St, Key West

Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license NOS5428364; Sunbiz entity SOUTHERNMOST DELI, LLC.

Website

Cafeterias & Bakeries

Cuban Coffee Queen

284 Margaret St, Key West

Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license NOS5428096; Sunbiz entity CUBAN COFFEE QUEEN LLC.

Website

Cafeterias & Bakeries

Cuban Coffee Queen

291 Front St # 106, Key West

Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428383; Sunbiz entity MARIUS VENTER.

Website

Cafeterias & Bakeries

Cuban Coffee Queen

1130 Duval St, Key West

Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428321; Sunbiz entity CUBAN COFFEE QUEEN 5, LLC.

Website

Cafeterias & Bakeries

Cuban Coffee Queen Downtown

5 Key Lime Sq, Key West

Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5401303; Sunbiz entity VENTER MARIUS.

Website

Cuban Casual

Cuban Casual

Coco's Kitchen

  • Unverified

275 Key Deer Blvd Unit 283, Big Pine Key

Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428265; Sunbiz entity not resolved.

Cuban Casual

Habanos On the Creek

90800 Overseas Hwy, Tavernier

Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5402687; Sunbiz entity HABANOS ON THE CREEK CORP.

Website

Cuban Casual

Keys Latin House

  • Unverified

105970 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo

Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428482; Sunbiz entity not resolved.

Cuban Casual

Kim's Kuban

2302 N Roosevelt Blvd, Key West

Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428378; Sunbiz entity TITO'S KITCHEN, LLC.

Website

Cuban Casual

La Nina Restaurant

1571 Overseas Hwy, Marathon

Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428202; Sunbiz entity LA NINA RESTAURANT INC.

Website

Full-Service

Full-Service

Dante's Key West/prime 951

951 Caroline Street, Key West

Full-Service entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428001; Sunbiz entity SEA CUPS, LLC.

Website

Full-Service

El Meson De Pepe

  • Unverified

410 Wall St, Key West

Full-Service entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5402522; Sunbiz entity not resolved.

Full-Service

El Siboney

900 Katherine St, Key West

Full-Service entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5400232; Sunbiz entity CARIBE FOODS LLC.

Website

Full-Service

Habanos Tapas and Bar

73814 Overseas Hwy, Islamorada

Full-Service entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Validation: DBPR license SEA5428467; Sunbiz entity HABANOS TAPAS AND BAR, LLC.

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MEH / Proceed With Caution

No mixed-reputation public-record overlays cleared the publishing threshold.

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AT YOUR OWN RISK

No active entries met the AT YOUR OWN RISK threshold.

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RIP (Permanently Closed)

No RIP entries had two independent closure signals for this geography.

Methodology and Audit

Entries clear the FRI cascade on DBPR status, closure vetting, and cuisine attribution. Identity enrichment (DBPR/OSS/Sunbiz name agreement, geocoded address, city/county consistency, plus cached Google/Foursquare/Yelp verifier context) refines a listing but is no longer a publish gate: a DBPR record that fails only enrichment is still shown rather than dropped. A record that cannot be matched to an identity is marked "Unverified DBPR Record" and its unverified corporate/website/social attribution is withheld; a record that cannot be geocoded is recorded as un-located. Failures and enrichment levels are written to output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet for operator review.

24 of 24 candidate evaluations published (100.0%); 4 marked unverified (no identity match), 1 recorded as un-located (no geocode). Audit log: output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet.

The local Sunbiz master enrichment contains corporate names and statuses reliably, but Sunbiz locality fields are sparse in the current export. The city/county check therefore requires DBPR and OSS locality agreement and records missing Sunbiz locality detail in the audit row.

Data sources: FRI Cuisine Essays. Built from DBPR public inspection records, Florida Sunbiz business filings, and Foursquare/OSS location data. All counts are derived from public records — no estimates or projections unless labeled as forecast.

Time-series forecasts and anomaly detection use NVIDIA NV-Tesseract. Model output is labeled separately from official records.

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