Café Caiçara

Café caiçara is associated with Ilhabela’s food traditions, where the municipality links it with sugarcane juice and local mills. Its traditional-food list also names café de garapa. Café Morro Grande publishes this traditional filtered café garapa rendition.

Sugarcane juice supplies the sweetness and the brewing liquid, alongside the flavour of ground coffee. The publisher describes the original preparation as naturally sweet, with dilution offered as a separate preference.

The coffee is filtered through a cloth strainer into a vessel. This simple brewed form belongs to the wider café garapa tradition documented in the source.