Café restaurants in Havana
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Museo del Chocolate
Chocolate addicts beware. This quirky ‘museum’ in the heart of Habana Vieja offers a lethal dose of chocolate, chocolate and yet more chocolate. (And it’s all made on the premises too.) Situated – with no irony intended – on the corner of narrow Calle Amargura (Bitterness St), this venerable sweet-toothed establishment is actually more a café than a museum, with a small cluster of marble tables set among an interesting assortment of chocolate paraphernalia. Not surprisingly everything on the delicious menu contains one all-pervading ingredient – have it hot, cold, white, dark, rich, or smooth, the stuff is divine whatever way you choose.
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Café de las Infusiones
Wedged into Calle Mercaderes, this recently restored Habaguanex coffee house is a caffeine addict’s heaven; it boasts a wonderful resident pianist, too. Fancier than your average Cuban coffee bar and more comprehensive than the Escorial, you can order more than a dozen different cuppas here, including Irish coffee (CUC$3.50), punch coffee (CUC$5), mocha (CUC$1), cappuccino (CUC$1.75) and so on.
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Café EI Escorial
Opening out onto Plaza Vieja and encased in a finely restored colonial mansion, there’s something definitively European about El Escorial. Among some of the best caffeine infusions in the city served here are café cubano, café con leche, frappé, coffee liquor and even daiquirí de café. There’s also a sweet selection of delicate pastries.
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Cinco Esquinas
Looking for somewhere to eat in Regla is like looking for the Niagara Falls in the Sahara. Bring a packed lunch! If desperation sets in, there are drinks and a few edible tidbits available at this Palmares place situated on ‘Five Corners’ in between the Parque Guaicanamar and the Colina Lenin. There’s a vastly unhealthy chicken booth nearby.
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Café Santo Domingo
Tucked away upstairs above Habana Vieja’s best bakery – and encased in one of its oldest buildings – this laid-back cafe is aromatic, tasty and light on the wallet. Check out the delicious fruit shakes, huge sandwich especial, or smuggle some cakes upstairs to enjoy over a steaming cup of café con leche (coffee with warm milk).
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Pastelería Francesa
This cafe has all the ingredients of a Champs-Élysées classic: a great location in Parque Central, waiters in waistcoats, and myriad pastries displayed in glass cases. But the authentic French flavor is ruined somewhat by the swarming jineteras who roll in here with their European sugar daddies for cigarettes and strong coffee.
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G-Café
This café is the ultimate student hangout, with arty wall drawings and a modernist mural, a patio with lots of greenery, and more than 400 books and magazines to read, borrow and buy. As well as deftly concocted mojitos and chunky sandwiches, there is trova (traditional poetic singing), jazz and poetry.
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Café Habano
A gritty, no-nonsense coffee bar on Calle Mercaderes, frequented mainly by Cubans, the Habano serves sweet, strong early-morning café cubana (strong, sweet black coffee) that gets plunked down straight in front of you on the bar. Don’t expect anything fancy here - like, um, milk.
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Bar El Polvorín
Bar El Polvorín, just beyond Los Doce Apóstoles, offers drinks and light snacks on a patio overlooking the bay. There’s zero shade, but it’s perfect for those famous Havana sunsets.
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Café de O’Reilly
Good old-fashioned ‘spit and sawdust’ cafe that sells drinks and snacks morning, noon and night. The bar is spread over two floors interconnected by a spiral staircase with most of the action taking place upstairs.
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