Must-see restaurants in Santa Clara

  • Restaurant Florida Center

    Santa Clara

    The Florida has been Santa Clara's best restaurant for at least a decade. The food is as good as the experience. Diners eat in a colonial, plant-festooned…

  • Bodeguita del Medio

    Santa Clara

    A love child of Havana’s original Bodeguita, this carefully branded ‘dive’ bar has a couple of advantages over its big-city mentor: 1) Hemingway never…

  • La Aldaba

    Santa Clara

    The rooftop restaurant in the Authentica Pérgola casa particular is a great place to repose, preferably in the evening, amid potted ferns and in the…

  • El Gobernador

    Santa Clara

    In this new era of competition from independents, state-run places have to perform better, and this one certainly has had a go. In a glamorous former…

  • El Alba

    Santa Clara

    The Alba has had a bit of a rethink of late: the interior has been enlarged, they've toned down the Melaíto cartoons on the walls (mercifully a few good…

  • Panadería Doña Neli

    Santa Clara

    This staunchly Cuban bakery amid the austere shopfronts on Calle Maceo has plenty of tables available in an adjacent cafe where you can relax with a piece…

  • Dinos Pizza

    Santa Clara

    The Santa Clara branch of this Cuban mini-chain has icy air-conditioning and friendly, helpful staff. It's generally packed with young students and serves…