An curved arrow pointing right. Panela is beloved in Colombia, where it is a go-to sweetener over the more processed white sugar. It is a type of unrefined sugar where the molasses naturally ...

Colombia native Fabio Caro has one request for every coffee drinker he speaks to at Macondo Coffee. “Try it without sugar,” says Caro, the 70-year-old founder of the local coffee chain.

At Macondo, freshly roasted Colombian coffee is prepared to be smooth. That’s kept customers coming back since Caro opened his first coffee shop in Doral in 2015. In Miami, a pl ...