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La Quintica |
A pleasant and sensual establishment that could be defined a bar, a café, a restaurant and, during the night, a cabaret, but first of all it constitutes a meeting point, a reference and pride to the whole village of San Antonio de los Baños. Even some Havana residents use it as a secret corner where they can enjoy a coffee or a beer during a relaxing evening. Placed on the border of enigmatic Ariguanabo river, which outlet nobody knows about, one might consider its location to be one of the main reasons for its success. The food, very cheap, is nothing to write home about but in this case it doesn't matter at all.
Address:
San Antonio de los Baños
La Habana |
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Café Rodney |
This bar is part of the Cabaret Tropicana leisure complex but you do not have to attend the show to have a drink here. It is, perhaps, the best cafeteria of the big Marianao district. Opened from early hours in the afternoon.
Address:
Calle 72
entre 41 y 45
Havana
Marianao
La Habana |
La Rampa |
This cafeteria can be found in the Havana Libre Hotel. Light meals and a wide variety of drinks are served. Ideally situated on the corner of 23th and L Street,the very heart of La Havana, next to Yara movies, Coppelia ice cream parlor and other very animated places.
Address:
Hotel Tryp Habana Libre
Calle
L
e/ 23 y 25, Vedado |
Café La Rampa |
Don't you worry! You don't have to see a movie to join this place, which is situated in the foyer of La Rampa movie theatre. Tiny, quiet and nicely decorated its real appeal is to be found in the variety of ways and combinations you can take your café: you can chose between classic Irish one, Jamaican or mixtures with rum and between other different amazing possibilities.
Address:
Calle 23
entre O y P (La Rampa)
Havana Vedado
La Habana |
La Red |
A charmingly dilapidated, pre-Revolutionary basement club with fishing motifs and retro decor. There's good seating and dancing space and, wait for it, air-conditioning that works. A show with live music - usually salsa, reggae or rap - takes place at midnight every night. Afterwards the place turns into a regular disco. Snacks are available.
Address:
Calle 19 #151
esquina Calle L
Havana Vedado
Open: Sept-June 10pm-4am daily. July, Aug 3-9pm, 10pm-4am daily |
El Relicario |
The Meliá Cohíba Hotel keeps for El Relicario a small room placed in the mezzanine. The armchairs are very confortable, but the rest, floors and decoration, are not so well conceived. Although, it is the best and most visited smokers room of the town.
Address:
Hotel Melia
Cohiba
Paseo
entre 1ª y 3ª
Havana
Vedado
La Habana. |
Ribera Azul Disco |
Recently refurbished basement club that caters to both Cubans and foreigners with a variety of Cuban and international music. There is a reasonable show on Fridays to Sundays starting at around 11pm, and affordable drinks and light snacks are also available.
Address:
Hotel Deauville
Avenida de Italia (Galiano)
entre San Lázaro y Malecón
Centro Havana
Open: 10pm-3am daily |
Cafetería Rincón del Cine |
The Hotel Nacional, center of the famous Havana Movie Festival, decided to dedicate this bar to all amateurs of this art. It has been decorated with select photographs and posters but unfortunately its illumination transmits an atmosphere similar to that of a supermarket. Open 24 hours, mostly Latin-american movies and documentaries are shown. The programme can be consulted at the main entrance. A very interesting place.
Address:
Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Calle O
esq. 21
Havana
Vedado |
La Roca |
Forget the peso-looking exterior and venture into the bar for a quiet drink, where the low lighting and blue-glowing decor really capture the essence of '50s Havana. Cool, swanky and overflowing with character, La Roca should be a definite pit-stop on a bar crawl of Vedado. And if you need any more persuading, drink prices are more than decent.
Air-conditioning.
Address:
Calle 21
entre L y M
Havana Vedado
Tel:
+53 7 334501
Open: noon-midnight daily |
El Rodeo Discoteca |
It is 20 km away from the city centre, in Lenin Park. The place is always full of cuban young people on weekend. Hundreds of cars and motorcycles may be seen at the entrance. This is a fact of Cuba´s economical recovery. Prices are reasonable; good dancing light, stereo music and beverages service. Nice public; happy ambience, almost euphoric. A place not well known by tourists.
Address:
Parque Lenin
Havana
La Habana |
Roofgarden Bar |
If you're looking for a place with a great view of Old Havana and the bay, a lush garden-like atmosphere and live traditional music (11am-6pm, except Monday and Wednesday), then the rooftop bar of this near-legendary hotel is it. Light meals are available. and p146.
Address:
Hotel Ambos Mundos
Calle Obispo #153
esquina a Mercaderes
Habana Vieja (Old Havana)
Open: 7am-11pm daily |
Roof Garden Bar |
Overlooking the Parque Central is the hidden rooftop bar of Hotel Inglaterra. It's not the prettiest of bars, but the views (particularly the rooftop of the Gran Teatro) make it worth a visit. Generous cocktails and plenty of Cristal mean that it's not long before people loose their inhibitions and get up to dance on the catwalk-type stage. Only the resident band is capable of emptying the place with its over-enthusiastic use of a dangerously loud microphones.
Air-conditioning.
Address:
Hotel Inglatera
Paseo de Martí (Prado)
esquina San Rafael
Tel +53 7
608595
Open: 6pm-2am Mon, Wed-Sun; closed Tue. |
Las Ruinas |
In an exemplary edification built in 1972 ,made by arquitect J. Galván where the vegetation and the colonial ruins are integrated with modern elements, we meet a splendid cafeteria ordered in different hights. The lamps are beautiful ,some of them are from Amelia Peláez. Although it is far from the center of the city , it deserves a visit.
Address:
Calle 100
esq. Cortina de la Presa,
Parque Lenin
Havana
Tel: +53 7 578286 |
Rumba del Callejón de Hamel |
Although slightly touristy, this weekly street rumba is still a must. The event takes place every Sunday in the picturesque Callejón de Hamel, one block south of Calle San Lázaro. Local artist Salvador has converted this little pedestrian lane into an Afro-Cuban world of its own, with brightly coloured murals, sculptures and installations. During the Sunday rumbas the orishas are called and the whole place comes to life.
Address:
Callejón de Hamel
esquina a Hospital
Centro Havana
Open: 11am-3pm Sun only |
Rumbos 3ª y 28 |
A simple and economic place which success seems to be timeless. As a bar it constitutes a meeting point and reference to people coming from Miramar and other districts. It is divided into three areas with different functions: a bar, where you can consume a light meal, while freezing with an over powered air conditioning (that's what Cubans enjoy), a glass covered terrace, ideal for a chat, and finally a small but useful cyber-café. If people are going there constantly since years, there should be a reason for it. May be you feel like figuring it out.
Address:
Calle 3ª y 28
Havana
Miramar, Playa
La Habana |
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