Cafe restaurants in Cuba
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El Louvre
With a gravitational pull on Remedios' scattering of tourists, El Louvre is, so locals will tell you, the oldest bar in the country in continuous service (since 1866). Longevity awards aside, the fried-chicken-and-sandwiches menu can't quite match the quaint park-side location. The bar was good enough for Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who heads the list of famous former patrons (one suspects the culinary offerings might have been better back then, though). If you're looking for a room/paladar/taxi, park yourself here and wait for offers.
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Cafetería las Begonias
The daytime nexus for Trinidad's transient backpacker crowd, meaning it's a good source of local information and the best place in town to meet other travelers over sandwiches, espresso and ice cream. It has a bar behind a partition wall, clean-ish toilets in a rear courtyard, and five or six cheap – but always crowded – internet terminals.
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Teatro Café Tomás
Cafe, souvenir stall and nightly music venue, this delightful place wedged between the Teatro Tomás Terry and the neoclassical Colegio San Lorenzo is the most atmospheric place to flop down and observe the morning exercisers in Parque Martí. The flower canopy-covered patio to the side comes alive in the evenings with great live music ranging from trova to jazz.
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Hotel Casa Granda
Positioned like a whitewashed theater box overlooking the colorful cabaret of Parque Céspedes, the Casa Granda's Parisian-style terrace cafe has to be one of the best people-watching locations in Cuba. Food-wise, you're talking snacks (burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches etc) and service-wise you're talking impassive, verging on the grumpy; but with this setting, who cares?
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Café Ven
Valuable new cafe tucked into busy Saco (Enramadas) with lung-enriching air-con, interesting coffee cafetal (plantation) paraphernalia and life-saving sandwiches and cakes.
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Plaza la Vigía
Bar with food or restaurant with bar? It's hard to tell with this place but who cares when there's more ambience here than in most of the city center's food stops put together? The ornate interior is reminiscent of a Vienna coffeehouse: with its stained glass and intriguing old pictures of Matanzas together with its buzzing, plaza-fronting terrace, the ambience will absorb you far more than the hamburgers on offer. Cocktails aren't bad though and European beers are sometimes served. What next: coffee machines and table service?
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