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Café TV
One of Habana's best-kept secrets, Café TV is a performance space lauded for its hilarious comedy nights. It's also a cheap and tasty eating option if you're willing to brave the frigid air-conditioning and rather forbidding underground entry tunnel. Head here for fresh burgers, healthy salad, pasta and Gordon Bleu (chicken sutffed with ham and cheese). Decor is simple and the walls are adorned with black-and-white Cuban TV and movie memorabilia.
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El Tocororo
Once considered to be one of Habana's finest government-run restaurants, El Tocororo has lost ground to its competitors in recent years and is often criticized for being overpriced. Nonetheless the candlelit tables and inviting garden are still worth a visit, while the unprinted menu, with such luxuries as lobster's tail and (occasionally) ostrich, still has the ability to surprise. Bank on paying for everything right down to the bread basket.
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La Casa De Quinta Y 16 I
La Casa de Quinta y 16 is an upscale ranch-style restaurant tacked onto the Casa del Habano. Housed in a funky modernist building with a pleasant wood interior, the restaurant presents its food as daily specials, including prawns, grilled fish, paella and fettuccini alfredo. All are served with a glass of wine. Owners of local casas particulares (private houses that let out rooms to foreigners) always rave about this place.
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Las Ruinas
Las Ruinas is one of Habana's most celebrated restaurants - at least in an architectural sense. It's a striking combo of an old ruined sugar mill juxtaposed with offbeat modern architecture. Antique furnishings enhance the elegant atmosphere, but the grossly overpriced food doesn't quite live up to the lavish setting. The menu includes lobster, plus a selection of Cuban and Italian dishes. You'll be lucky to get much change out of CUC 30.00 .
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Los Portales
The main reason to come to this restaurant in the four-star Hotel Plaza is for the pizza, which - rather surprisingly - is among the best and cheapest in Habana. Don't be put off by the fancy decor (the tables and chairs look as if they're set for a wedding) - the prices here are very reasonable. A decent pizza with one or two extra toppings shouldn't cost more than 4.00 . The flan (baked custard with caramel glaze) makes for a nice dessert.
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Paladar La Fontana
Habana discovers the barbecue or, more to the point, the full-on charcoal grill. Huge portions of meat and fish are served up in this amiable place, so go easy on the starters, which include quails' eggs, fried chickpeas, and crab mixed with eggplant. La Fontana specializes in everything you'll never see elsewhere in Cuba, from lasagna to huge steaks. Big-shot reviews from Cigar Aficionado and the Chicago Tribune testify to the burgeoning legend.
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Paladar La Guarida
Located on the top floor of a spectacularly dilapidated tenement, La Guarida's lofty reputation rests on its movie-location setting ( Fresa y Chocolate was filmed in this building) and a clutch of glowing newspaper reviews. The food is up there with Habana's best, shoehorning its captivating blend of Cuban nueva cocina into dishes such as sea bass in a coconut reduction, and chicken with honey and lemon sauce. Reservations required.
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