Destinations

-Havana
- Havana City
-Pinar del Rio
- Pinar del Rio City
- Viñales
-Matanzas
- Matanzas City
- Varadero
- Cardenas
Villa Clara
- Santa Clara
Cienfuegos
- Cienfuegos City
Sancti Spiritus
- Sancti Spiritus City
- Trinidad
Ciego de Avila
- Ciego de Avila City
- Jardines del Rey
- Cayo Coco
- Cayo Guillermo
Camaguey
- Camaguey City
Las Tunas
- Las Tunas City
Granma
- Bayamo
Santiago de Cuba
- Santiago de Cuba City
Guantanamo
- Guantanamo City
- Baracoa
Holguin
- Holguin City
- Guardalavaca
Isla Juventud
Cayo Largo

Las Arcadas
Independencia #1
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: The Hotel Plaza restaurant, centre of the Sancti Spíritus centre, offers an interesting criolla menu with good prices. Kind and friendly service.

El Drago

Canalcubano: It has the name of a famous tree, symbol of Canary Islands. There are many dragos in Caibarien town, the place where the restaurant is. The only sports field in Cuba where canary sports are practiced is next to El Drago restaurant; nevertheless, canary ambience and food is not defined in the place.

Los Espejos
Socorro entre Céspedes y Martí
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: One of the best places in Sancti Spiritus to enjoy the traditional Cuban dishes. There are also people coming simply to have a beer or any drink. Walfrido and his family, the managers, are always very attentive and friendly.

Hostal del Rijo Restaurante
Plaza de Máximo Gómez
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: This restaurant offers a Cuban menu without complications. We recommend to choose the tables in the patio.

El Mesón de la Plaza
Calle Máximo Gómez #34
Sancti Spíritus
Tel: 41/2-8546

Canalcubano: In this old colonial house, with precious wood ceilings, one of the most interesting cousine of the ville of Sancti Spíritus is practised. Its offer is based on a mixture of spanish and cuban dishes, where recipies with chickpeas, harvest in the area, the veal of the Villa, the "Ropa Vieja con pasas" and the cuban sangría are its specialities, and they are excellent.

Frommers: On one of Sancti Spíritus's most attractive plazas, this handsome 1850s house is open to the street and features two rooms with high ceilings and picnic-style tables with benches. The restaurant is very clean, well managed, and very popular, especially with a lunchtime tourist crowd. It breaks out of the Cuban restaurant doldrums with a couple of house specialties: garbanzo (chickpea) soup with bacon, pork, and sausage; and ropa vieja (shredded beef), served here in an earthenware pot. Those two dishes plus a glass of sangría make for a very good meal, but you might also opt for grilled shrimp or fish filet with tamarind sauce. Note: The restaurant is apt to close early at night, around 9pm, if there are no customers.

Quinta de Santa Elena
Padre Quintero entre Llanos y Manolico Díaz
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: In front of the famous bridge of Sancti Spíritus, unique in its style in all the country, it is located this spectacular restaurant. An interesting menu of criolla food and a kind service corfirms it as bonne adresse, as a french would say.

Frommers: This new restaurant near the river and Puente Yayabo occupies a lovely colonial home with handsome salones and a relaxing terrace that opens onto the garden backyard, with river views. Popular with groups, especially at lunch, it features traditional Cuban music and good meals and service. Standard dishes like fried fish filet and pork and beef steaks are enlivened by a couple of twists, including ropa vieja, the classic Cuban dish of tangy shredded beef, and vaca frita, a traditional dish of roast beef. On Saturdays, there's a mini-cabaret show in the evening.

Shangai
Independencia (bulevar)
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: This restaurant placed in the centre of the town offers a mixture of chinese and cuban food. The quality is tightly; the best are their friendly prices.

Los Almendros
Seafood
Ranchón El Cubano
Puente del Río Guarabo
Trinidad
Tel: (419) 40206 Fax: (419) 92577

Canalcubano: It is El Ranchón restaurant of El Cubano farm, near Trinidad. One of the most outstanding features is a catfish breeding. They serve a typical dish with this fish. Going up the river, a passway leads to a charming place, Jabira cascade, where water falls into a natural high rock walled swimming pool. Behind the water curtain lies another misterious swimming pool for nature frearless lovers.

Las Begonias
Comidas ligeras
A. Maceo y Simón Bolivar
Trinidad

Frommers: Once one of Trinidad's better restaurants, Las Begonias is now not much more than a snackateria, with 10 glass-topped tables on a red-tile floor, open to the street. Still, it's good enough for breakfast or a cheap light lunch. It serves mostly sandwiches (emparedados) and hamburgers, as well as the ubiquitous fried chicken. The house specialty is a sandwich, the "super rumbos" that is ham, cheese, and peppers on thick bread. An Internet cafe is attached.

Casa de la Gallega
Guanayara
Topes de Collantes
Tel: (419)40117

Canalcubano: It is another typical cuban mountain house lost in the heart of the Guanayara river canyon, near the virginal Rocio waterfall, an ideal place for film makers. On our outing we saw a conga on a rocky place; it was at large. Creole food dishes are prepared by prior arrangement.

Casa Guachinango
Carretera Sancti Spiritus km 12
Trinidad
Sancti Spíritus

Canalcubano: More than a restaurant it is a country house where you can have a rest after a day of excursions. It is located close to Trinidad, in the middle of an incredible valley (Valle de los Ingenios) and offers to its guests a menu that consists of typical criollo dishes combined with pork meet and good vegetables. You can ride on horses or have a walk in its nice surroundings.

Casa de la Música
Calle Francisco Javier Zerquera #406
Trinidad
Tel: (419) 3414

Canalcubano: A restaurant located in the upper part of the outside steps in the centre of Trinidad with splendid views. It has one of the best offer of creole cuisine in the city with an acceptable quality.

La Caoba
Parque La Represa
Topes de Collantes
Sancti Spíritus
Tel: (42) 40206 Fax: (419) 92577

Canalcubano: It is a small, welcoming restaurant, situated in the core of the forest, next to the old dam, now the historical aqueduct of Topes de Collantes.It is beside an arboretum full of native and exotic plants. Visitors are always anxious to see it.

La Coruña Paladar
José Martí 430
Trinidad

Frommers: A pleasant private home restaurant with just three tables on the patio just beyond the living room, under a welcome ceiling fan, and a couple more under a bright bulb in the garden, this is, along with dinner-only Estela, the second-best of Trinidad's paladares. It has an oral menu only, but you can already guess what's served: chicken, pork, grilled fish. Meals begin with a salad and veggie plate, and the main course is served with a heaping mound of rice and beans, followed by a small plate of bananas and mango. Tables are very informal, with plasticized tablecloths, wood chairs up front, and iron garden chairs in the garden. One wall of the paladar is decorated with souvenir money from customers around the world.

Don Antonio
Cocina criolla y internacional
Gustavo Izquierdo #118 e/ Pino Guinart y Simón Bolívar
Tinidad
Tel: (419) 6548

Canalcubano: In this old house perfectly rehabilitated serves a very well prepared native food. Its specialist the steak fish "Don Antonio", with a correct wine menu. It also has a charm yard-terrace.

Estela Paladar
Criolla
Simón Bolívar 557
Trinidad
Tel: 419/4329

Frommers: Enter through an elaborately decorated colonial house, 2 blocks north of the cathedral, into this private restaurant, which has a handful of tables set in an exuberant backyard garden setting, with tons of flowering plants, including red estrella de navidad, and a wall festooned with vines. Portions are nearly as voluminous as the flora. Dishes include roast pork a la cubana, fried chicken, grilled fish, and ham omelet. All are served with moros y cristianos (black beans and rice), salad, fried banana, crackers, and fruit. The owner also has one room for rent ($20 double).

Finca María Dolores
Cocina criolla
Carretera Circuito Sur
Trinidad
Tel: (419)3581

Canalcubano: This complex has different installations. The restaurant is one of the best places in order to eat native food in Trinidad and its surroundings, besides, you can spend a day joining the nature.

Hacienda Codina
Guanayara
Topes de Collantes
Tel: (42)40117 Fax: (42)92577

Canalcubano: It is a typical cuban mountain house in the middle of the forest with no electricity service. The road to Codina has abundant flora and bird life; caves and cold water gullies; beautiful landscaped fields surprisingly ending in a high cliff. Diners may enjoy creole food lunch prepared on prior arrangement. They serve ginsan, a ‘light’ ginger rum mix cocktail.

El Jigüe
Carne de aves
Rubén Martínez Villena #70
Trinidad
Tel: +53 419 6476

Canalcubano: Located in the Trinidad historical center, Mankind Heritage city, this house prepares a delicious native food, specially its well known specialty "Pollo al JiGüE". Besides there are good prices.

Frommers: Probably the best of Trinidad's state-run restaurants, El Jigüe (hee-gweh) is a brightly lit, nearly formal dining room in a handsome, airy colonial house. It sits on one of the old town's prettiest and tiniest squares, next to a massive shade tree. Just a block from the Plaza Mayor, the restaurant has high-backed chairs, white tablecloths, and prominent chandeliers, which lend it an elegance not often seen in official restaurants in Cuba. Its specialty is pollo El Jigüe, which comes in a clay pot with pasta and cheese and is served with salad and coffee. Other dishes worth checking out are grilled fish, standard chicken, and lobster -- the latter is, if not cheap, a better value here at $18 than at many government-owned restaurants.

Wcities: This eatery specializes in fowl, serving chicken any style including on the grill, roasted and tropical and highlights its Pollo al Jigue (Jigue chicken). Originally a homestead, it was built in the mid-1700s and remodeled in 1810. It retains the beautiful plaster mouldings of the ceilings, bronze lamps and engraved crystal along with the stuccoed Moorish motifs which stand out. Its cultural import is seen on the facade, which exemplifies the use of murals dating from the mid-19th century.

Manaca Iznaga
Carretera Sancti Spiritus km 12
Valle de los Ingenios
Tel: (419)7241

Canalcubano: It is part of the ranch with the same name, and it has an impressing tower of almost 50 meters over the Sugar Mill’s Valley declarated Mankind heritage. It is located at 13 km from Trinidad and you can arrive there in a funny and old train that goes through the zone. They serve a wonderful food in its wide hall or in its pretty terrace.

Mesón del Regidor
Calle Simón Bolívar #424
Trinidad
Sancti Spíritus
Tel: (419) 6456

Canalcubano: Located in the center part of Trinidad, it has a nice bar and a pretty terrace. The menu is based in Cuban food. The service is nice. It has economic prices.

Plaza Mayor
Real esq. Francisco J. Zerquera
Trinidad
Tel: (419) 6470

Canalcubano: This restaurant offers the unique buffet-table of the colonial city. It was opened in 1998 in an antic residence. It also has a relaxing yard with fruit trees. Without an extraordinary quality, but it use to be fill up, due to its good prices.

Plaza Santa Ana
Cocina internacional
Santo Domingo y Sta. Ana
Trinidad
Tel: (419) 6423

Canalcubano: This restaurant is part of the city´s magnificent cultural centre where you will find a pottery stall, a bazaar, shops of the so-called "Fondo de Bienes Culturales" (fund of cultural goods) and "La casa de las Americas", as well as a bar with nice views. They offer the international kind of food mainly based on fish. Its quality is more than correct.

Sol y Son Cuba-Junky's favorite in Trinidad
Simón Bolívar 283 e/José Martí and Frank País, Around Town
Trinidad

Frommers: One of Trinidad's longstanding paladares, "Sun and Sound" is housed in an art- and furniture-bedecked 19th-century house that could double for an antiques dealer. Out back, on the porch of a very attractive, verdant courtyard, the restaurant features one of the more extensive menus among private restaurants. Choose from soups, spaghetti, a long list of fish (including a breaded filet stuffed with cheese), and grilled and roasted chicken and pork dishes. Check out the cerdo borracho (drunk pork), which is grilled and doused with rum. The patio has mounted ceiling fans, and during the day you should do your level best to sit beneath one, as it can get bloody hot.

Trinidad Colonial
Cocina internacional
Maceo #402
Trinidad 
Tel: +53 419 6473

Canalcubano: Established in a beautiful colonial house and decorated with an antic furniture, it presents a correct native menu with meat, shellfish, and fish. It is the most elegant of all Trinidad.

Frommers: This state-owned restaurant is more notable for its setting, in a pretty mauve-colored house set back from the street, with a couple of tables in a sunny courtyard, than its menu. The standard dishes of grilled fish, pork filet, grilled shrimp, and lobster, feature decent-size portions but are a little unexciting, and service can be spectacularly inattentive. A better value are the set menus, which come with rice, vegetables, bread, and dessert.

Wcities: This elegant restaurant is a mid-19th century mansion, which once housed a wealthy Trinitaria (local resident) family of that time. The spacious dining area lies beyond the gate and the manicured garden of decorative plants and autochthonous dwarf palms. Its furniture, tableware and settings are originally from that period and the high ceilings retain the intricate fine plaster moulding. Artwork by the region's artists hangs from the walls and potted tropical flowers abound. This fine restaurant's specialities include the highest quality of shellfish and seafood.

Vía Reale
Calle Real n#74
Trinidad

Canalcubano: One of the few city restaurants that goes out of the classical native food. They offer different pizzas, spaghetti and other Italian food. Located in a valuable colonial house. It isn’t expensive.