La Carreta

Valle de Viñales


A carreta is a simple oxen-drawn cart, but there's nothing basic about how this restaurant transports you up its steep steps and into the privileged pantheons of wonderful Cuban food laced with subtle Mediterranean influences. The classics? Lamb stewed in a red-wine sauce, or fresh crayfish from the Ancón River. It's 2km north of Hotel Rancho San Vicente.


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