Tropical Beach Cafe

Tropical Beach Cafe is a Cuban restaurant on Collins Avenue, open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., doing homestyle Cuban breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a small, brightly painted room. Breakfast runs on Cuban coffee and chorizo with eggs; the rest of the menu covers the Cuban-diner standards, sandwiches, congri, vaca frita, arroz con pollo, tostones. It's a straightforward neighborhood Cuban spot, not a hotel restaurant despite sitting on the same stretch of Collins as several.