Must-see restaurants in Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

  • El Romero

    Las Terrazas

    One of Cuba's few full-blown ecorestaurants, El Romero specializes in vegetarian fare, uses solar energy, homegrown organic vegetables and herbs, and…

  • Don Oliva

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    Some of the cheapest lobster in Cuba is served on Don Oliva's secluded covered patio – barely 35km from the costly cuisine of Havana – and it's not bad…

  • Casa del Campesino

    Las Terrazas

    Of the ranchónes (rustic, open-sided restaurants) dotted around, this one adjacent to the Hacienda Unión, about 3.5km west of the Hotel Moka access road,…

  • Fonda de Mercedes

    Las Terrazas

    On a terrace beside her home in an apartment block beneath Hotel Moka, Mercedes has been serving up vegetable soup and hearty home-cooked meat and fish…

  • Miguel's

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    Cute paladar (privately-owned restaurant) serving unusual (for Artemisa) dishes including crab, tamales and bistec uruguayo (Uruguayan steak). Favored by…

  • Los Nardis

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    Unsignposted, thus hard-to-find, private restaurant a block from the main drag (Av 28 de Enero) that serves unadorned Cuban dishes featuring mucho rice…

  • Restaurante el Salto

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    This simple place at the start of the path to the waterfall is one of the few independent eating options outside Soroa's hotels and casas particulares …

  • Rancho Curujey

    Las Terrazas

    This ranchón (rustic, opened-sided restaurant) set-up offers beer and snacks under a small thatched canopy overlooking Lago Palmar. The Serafina and Las…

  • Los Dos Hermanos

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    In a cute clapboard house that was once an elegant hotel lies the best answer to any ferry delay. Dos Hermanos serves straight-up Cuban nosh quickly and…

  • Casa de Botes

    Las Terrazas

    The community's fish specialist is suspended on stilts above Lago del San Juan – where you can first work up an appetite on a kayak.

  • El Criollo

    Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces

    The best of the handful of Parque Escaleras de Jaruco's restaurants is the pleasant ranchón (rustic, opened-sided restaurant) El Criollo, where you’ll pay…