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La Bodeguita del Medio

Style of food: International

Cost: Moderate

Type of place: State

Food
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Value

Best for: Hemingway aficionados. Getting a drink at the bar.

Worst for: Essentially a tourist trap with poor quality overpriced food

Empedrado #207 e/ San Ignacio y Cuba, Habana Vieja

(+53)7866 - 8857

Open noon-midnight daily

Cuba Absolutely Review: January 2011

Despite the international renown of La Bodeguita del Medio, the actual food is generally a bit of a letdown. The place is worth stopping by for a mojito in the attached bar (although bear in mind you will be cheek-to-jowl with camera-touting tourists). The restaurant however still retains a certain ambience although the best tables are reserved for people who are unlikely to show up (sic Sammy Davis Junior).

Doña Juana LH 3

This friendly paladar hides out in a newly painted but crumbling Vedado building. The place itself has a revamp in 2011 and now is a lot more upmarket than in the past. The terrace up top is huge done …

Open: Open noon-midnightCalle 19 No. 909, entre 6 y 8, Vedado

Las Tres Medallas LH 3

Las Tres Medallas was opened in September 2012 by Olympic champion Mireya Luis and her Italian husband. The name of the place refers to the three gold medals that Mireya won in Barcelona, Atlanta, and …

Calle 20 # 313, e/ Av. 3ª y 5ª.

Conde de Villanueva Hotel – Vuelta Abajo LH 3

This building was once the house of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, a 19th-century celebrity who played an important role in the Island’s economic, scientific and literary growth of the time, now home t …

Open: Open noon-11pm

$48 - $83ROOMS: 9Mercaderes No. 102 esquina a Lamparilla

El Mercurio LH 3

Located on the ground floor of Lonja del Comercio, an old building that in 1996 was turned into the first modern office building in the Cuban capital, the Mercurio (Mercury) opened its doors on 27 Jan …

Open: Open 7am-midnightEdificio Lonja del Comercio, Plaza de San Francisco

Monte Barreto LH 3

Monte Barreto is located just behind the park, which is just behind the Occidental Hotel. It opened on December 16, 2011 by Aldo, who while a lawyer by trade has an interest in food, drinks and talkin …

Open: Open 24 hoursAve. 9na No 7813 entre 78 y 80, Playa

Europa LH 4-

Europa is strategically located on one of Old Havana’s main thoroughfares, Obispo. Many Havana residents may still remember it as the old Café Europa, the best patisserie in town in the late 19th cent …

Open: Open noon-midnightObispo, esquina a Aguiar

Café El Escorial LH 4-

Café El Escorial was opened a few years ago in the magnificent Plaza Vieja. The coffee is excellent, everything from Cuban coffee, café au lait, coffee frappé, coffee liquor through to coffee daiquiri …

Open: Open 9am-10pmMercaderes No 317 esquina a Muralla, Plaza Vieja

La Julia LH 3

La Julia is an old timer on the Old Havana paladar circuit. It’s been around long enough to be called an institution. This is an unfussy family-run paladar on O’Reilly Street that serves Cuban Creole …

Open: Open noon-11pm dailyO'Reilly No. 506 A entre Bernaza y Villegas

D’Doce LH 3

D’Doce opened on April 17, 2011. We turned up two days later having seen the large stylish sign outside and a pink glow from inside which was intriguing. It is located on the second floor in the front …

Open: Open noon-midnight dailyCalle 12 No. 508, entre 23 y 21, Vedado

La Mina LH 3

The building that houses La Mina and which was the residence of the bishops of the nearby principal Parrish Church back in the 16th and 17th centuries was refurbished in 1985 and became La Mina Restau …

Open: Open bar and café 24hrs; restaurant 10am-midnightObispo esquina a Oficios

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