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“Cuando haces las cosas con cariño y con pasión, desde lo más básico, lo más simple, a los más grande — por ejemplo, cuando usted mira las rosas bien bonitas, bien pulidas, hasta el zacate bien verde, bien cortadito, bien bonito, o los árboles bien entresacados, la palma bien limpia — es un arte.”

A cortadito from Colada Shop can get you through a deadline, and restaurants and bars also offer copious amounts of outdoor seating, including at the dockside Cantina Bambina, and the tall, sawhorse-like tables on the patio at Hank’s on the Wharf — perfect for those who prefer a standing desk.

So Mr. Barreras also offers Kitten Coffee, a local, lighter roast, as a concession to customers who won’t give up their cortado for a cortadito.

Even picky eaters should be happy with the yellow rice and roasted chicken, while parents will enjoy heaping servings of ropa vieja and picadillo capped off with a steaming cortadito.

And several seaside properties remain closed, including the Raleigh Hotel, my regular spot for a prefair cortadito for a decade now.