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Where to Eat and Drink

with Art Nouveau stained glass Price Guide
Havana featuring Hebrew symbols. The Prices are based on a three-course
La Habana Vieja borscht and baba ghanoush come meal for one, including a cocktail,
tax and service.
highly recommended.
$ up to $15
$$
DK Choice La Mina Map 4 F2 $$ $15–$25
$$$
over $25
Cuban Creole
304 O’Reilly $ Calle Oficios 109, esq. Obispo, Plaza
Spanish Map 4 E2 de Armas Ivan Chef Justo $$$
Calle O’Reilly, e/ Habana y Aguiar Tel 7862 0216 International Map 4 D2
Tel 5264 4745 At the heart of the tourist circuit, Calle Aguacate 9, esq. Chacón
This stylish café-cum-restaurant this is a lively place with friendly Tel 7863 9697
celebrates crab empanadillas, staff. The fish, pork and chicken This place is set in an elegant old
and fresh ceviche. Their out- dishes are surprisingly well priced. Havana home filled with antiques.
standing cocktails include the The menu includes pastas, paellas
unusual melon mojitos and Café del Oriente $$$ and good meat dishes.
bloody Marys garnished with Cuban Creole Map 4 F2
octopus. There are a limited Calle Oficios 112, esq. Amargura DK Choice
number of tables, so it is best Tel 7860 6686
to book well in advance. An old-world café on Plaza San Paladar Doña Eutimia $$$
Francisco that serves some of Cuban Creole Map 4 E2
Havana’s most sophisticated Callejón del Chorro 60c, Plaza de
Café Bohemia $ cuisine. The menu features rabbit, la Catedral
Italian Map 4 E3 beef and plenty of fish. European Tel 7861 1332
San Ignacio 364, Plaza Vieja dishes are also available. This beautifully decorated little
Tel 7860 3722 hideaway, tucked away in a
Tucked away on the patio of an old La Dominica $$$ corner of Plaza de la Catedral
colonial mansion, this café and Italian Map 4 E2 (see pp66–7), dishes up superb
delicatessen serves dishes named Calle O’Reilly 108, esq. Mercaderes Cuban cuisine. Be sure to try
after famous Cuban texts. It is a Tel 7860 2918 the tasty ropa vieja (shredded
good breakfast spot. There’s an emphasis on seafood at beef) stewed in a sauce of
this friendly restaurant. Start with the onions, peppers and tomatoes.
El Chanchullero $ smoked salmon and follow with the A wide selection of wines and
Spanish Map 4 D3 prawn and lobster pasta. A good cocktails are available. Reserva-
Calle Teniente Rey (Brasil) 457 range of Spanish and Chilean tions are strongly advised.
Tel 7872 8227 wines. Live music on most nights.
A buzzy hole-in-the-wall tapas joint
serving herby sausages, tuna tapas El Floridita $$$ El Patio $$$
and other light bites. Arrive early Seafood Map 4 D2 Cuban Creole Map 4 E2
as they run out of the best dishes. Avenida de Bélgica (Monserrate), esq. Calle San Ignacio 54, Plaza de la
Obispo Catedral
La Bodeguita del Medio $$ Tel 7867 1299 Tel 7867 1035
Cuban Creole Map 4 E2 A plush restaurant located in the A charming restaurant in a
Calle Empedrado 207, e/ San Ignacio back room of a classic bar where beautiful spot facing Catedral de
y Cuba Hemingway famously sipped San Cristóbal (see p68). Cuban
Tel 7866 8857 daiquirís. Serves lavish dishes such cuisine is the speciality, but the
This restaurant (see p69) has retained as prawns in orange-cream sauce menu offers everything from
much of the alluring character that and Lobster Thermidor. sandwiches to lobster.
made it popular with the likes of
Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel
García Márquez. The Cuban meat
and seafood dishes are good.
La Imprenta $$
Cuban Creole Map 4 F2
Calle Mercaderes, e/ Lamparilla y
Amargura
Tel 7864 9851
A surprisingly good state-run
restaurant based in a former printing
works in the heart of the old town.
The solomillo (steak) is outstanding.
El Jardín del Eden $$
Kosher Map 4 E2
Hotel Raquel, Calle San Ignacio 103,
esq. Amargura
Tel 7860 8280
A range of delicious dishes are
served in an elegant dining room Dining on the covered terrace at seafood restaurant El Templete, Havana
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