Versailles Restaurant (1971)
Cuban exiles opened Versailles in Miami's Little Havana, serving Cuban coffee and food around the clock. It became a gathering place for the exile community and a stop for politicians seeking Cuban-American support.
The restaurant became a Miami institution within its first years.
It showed a coffee-and-food business can anchor a diaspora community; Versailles still operates today.
Spirits Of Coffee could play a similar role for Salt Lake City's Brazilian community.
