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Key West Cuban Guide
FRI public-record essay for cuban restaurants in Key West.
Key West has 26 validated Cuban entries, including 5 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 26 candidate evaluations were filtered before publication.
Updated 2026-09-30 15:09 UTC
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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 entries26
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Confirmed closures0
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Inspection/safety overlays5
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Filtered candidates0
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Cafeterias & Bakeries
Cafeterias & Bakeries
Riviera Coffee Shop
3100 A Flager Ave, Key West
Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range. Emergency-order history: 4 event(s) (No handwashing sink, Roach activity).
Validation: DBPR license NOS5401367; Sunbiz entity RIVIERA COFFEE SHOP INC.
Cafeterias & Bakeries
Harbor Cafe 90
90311 Old Hwy, Tavernier
Cafeterias & Bakeries entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.
Cuban Casual entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.
Validation: DBPR license SEA5428141; Sunbiz entity not resolved.
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AT YOUR OWN RISK
Health & Safety Concerns
Riviera Coffee Shop
3100 A Flager Ave, Key West
inspection severity is within the typical peer range; multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Emergency-order count: 4. Closure data: multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Health & Safety Concerns
Habanos On the Creek
90800 Overseas Hwy, Tavernier
inspection severity is within the typical peer range; multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Emergency-order count: 2. Closure data: multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Health & Safety Concerns
Keys Latin House
Unverified
105970 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo
inspection severity is elevated at 1.4x the peer alert threshold; multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Emergency-order count: 0. Closure data: multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Health & Safety Concerns
El Meson De Pepe
Unverified
410 Wall St, Key West
inspection severity is elevated at 1.3x the peer alert threshold; multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Emergency-order count: 0. Closure data: multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Health & Safety Concerns
Kim's Kuban
2302 N Roosevelt Blvd, Key West
inspection severity is elevated at 1.3x the peer alert threshold; multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
Emergency-order count: 0. Closure data: multi-signal closure detector shows no closure confirmation on the active DBPR license.
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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.
26 of 26 candidate evaluations published (100.0%); 4 marked unverified (no identity match), 2 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 โ 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.