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Café Tropical is an easygoing café-restaurant with light food perfect for a hot day in the Caribbean.

With moderately priced sandwiches, bagels and smoothies, Café Tropical is also the only place in Playa where you can find falafel in pitabread. It's very good! Their strawberry-orange-ginger smoothie is another favorite of ours.

You can sit right on 5th Avenue or opt for the bird view from their second floor palapa. Everything they serve is fresh, natural and tasty. It's open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Refreshing smoothies, bagels and great falafel right on 5th Avenue.