Style of food: Cuban/Creole
Meliá Cohíba Hotel – Habana Café LH
Salsa/Timba Live music venueAdmission: CUC 15Open: 8pm-2.30am daily; Performances: 9pm (main band at 11.30pm) Thur-Sun$100 - $110ROOMS: 409Hotel Meliá Cohíba, Avenida Paseo, esquina 3ra, Vedado
La Chuchería LH
El Mercurio LH
Mi Jardín LH
Casa Española LH
La Cecilia LH
1830 Restaurant LH
La Tasquita LH
La Giraldilla LH
La Divina Pastora LH
Meliá Cohíba Hotel – Habana Café LH 
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This is where Vincent Vega would get his ten-dollar shake in Havana and although you cannot actually sit inside the Chevy, Pontiac and Buick, which grace the interior; they do add 1950’s chic to the p …
Salsa/Timba Live music venueAdmission: CUC 15Open: 8pm-2.30am daily; Performances: 9pm (main band at 11.30pm) Thur-Sun$100 - $110ROOMS: 409Hotel Meliá Cohíba, Avenida Paseo, esquina 3ra, Vedado
La Chuchería LH 3
Tourists often seem somewhat conflicted between finding a place that authentic real Cubans go to and somewhere where there is toiler paper in the bathrooms and the food is reliable. La Chuchería tick …
3ra y D, Vedado
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
Mi Jardín LH 2
Mi Jardín used to be the only Mexican place in Havana. The place shows its Mexican colours through Mexican flags and other Mexican memorabilia in the main inside dining room. Outside in the attractive …
Open: Open noon-midnight dailyCalle 66 No. 517 esquina a 5ta, Miramar
Casa Española LH 2
What do you do with an old castle in the middle or Miramar? Turn it into a restaurant of course. This is at least easy to find driving down 7ma (7th Ave.). This house is a medieval parody built in the …
Open: Open noon-11pmAve. 7ma y Calle 26, Miramar
La Cecilia LH 2
This is an immensely popular place on a Friday and Saturday night for its concerts and nightlife. As a restaurant, this has been around forever and markets itself as a high-class place serving interna …
Open: Open noon-midnightAve. 5ta No. 11010 entre 110 y 112, Playa
1830 Restaurant LH 2
I have been to a few parties at 1830 where it would be fair to say that ‘old-world opulence meets Hollywood glamour in this eclectic-style house’. Unfortunately, on an ordinary night, this is simply n …
Open: Open noon-midnight dailyMalecón No.1252, esquina a 20
La Tasquita LH 2+
This is a classic old-school Cuban paladar, which offers authentic charm in a Cuban kitsch Centro Habana way. Although some of the dishes are ridiculously overpriced (CUC 8-12), the owner is lovely, w …
Open: Open noon-midnightJovellar No. 160 entre Espada y San Francisco
La Giraldilla LH 2
Opinions vary at La Giraldilla. It is next to the Macumba nightclub, which is extremely popular on nights when good groups are playing. The entire complex is very upmarket featuring acres of white mar …
Open: Open noon-midnightCalle 222, esquina a 37, La Coronela, La Lisa
La Divina Pastora LH 2+
La Divina Pastora has a wonderful setting behind huge 18th-century cannons, offering a great view back over the harbour into Old Havana. Unfortunately, that is about it. The food here struggles to rea …
Open: Open noon-midnightParque Histórico Militar Morro-Cabaña
