Iberostar Parque Central – Rooftop Patio LH
Café Taberna LH
Las Ruinas LH
El Tocororo LH
Meliá Cohíba Hotel – Habana Café LH
Salsa/Timba Live music venueAdmission: CUC 15Open: 8pm-2.30am daily; Performances: 9pm (main band at 11.30pm) Thur-Sun$100 - $110ROOMS: 409Hotel Meliá Cohíba, Avenida Paseo, esquina 3ra, Vedado
La Chuchería LH
Doña Juana LH
Las Tres Medallas LH
Conde de Villanueva Hotel – Vuelta Abajo LH
El Mercurio LH
Iberostar Parque Central – Rooftop Patio LH 
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Parque Central Rooftop Patio (hamburger review) Havana A fellow traveler recommended the Hamburger at the Rooftop Patio at the Parque Central Hotel in Old Havana to me. I had been meaning to check the …
Neptuno e/ Prado y Zulueta, Habana Vieja
Café Taberna LH 3
This is a very lively restaurant on the corner of Plaza Vieja, which is dedicated to Benny More and the home to good son bands, notably Son del Trópico, Sonido Son and the Septeto Matamoros who perfor …
Open: Open 12m to 12a.m. Performances 12m-4pm, 4-7pmMercaderes No. 531, esquina Teniente Rey (Corner Plaza Vieja), Old Havana
Las Ruinas LH 3
Las Ruinas melds offbeat modern architecture–including some eye-catching stained glass by Cuban artist René Portocarrero and immaculately decayed stonewalls–onto the ruins of an old sugar mill, givi …
Open: Open 11am-midnight Tue-SunCalle 100 y Cortina de la Presa, Parque Lenin
El Tocororo LH 3
When it was opened, the Tocororo was one of the first upmarket restaurants in Havana. This is an old style Havana state-owned restaurant. Lots of greenery and a piano player do at least give some atmo …
Open: Open noon-midnight Mon-Sat, closed SunCalle 18, entre 3ra y 5ta, Miramar
Meliá Cohíba Hotel – Habana Café LH 4-
This is where Vincent Vega would get his ten-dollar shake in Havana and although you cannot actually sit inside the Chevy, Pontiac and Buick, which grace the interior; they do add 1950’s chic to the p …
Salsa/Timba Live music venueAdmission: CUC 15Open: 8pm-2.30am daily; Performances: 9pm (main band at 11.30pm) Thur-Sun$100 - $110ROOMS: 409Hotel Meliá Cohíba, Avenida Paseo, esquina 3ra, Vedado
La Chuchería LH 3
Tourists often seem somewhat conflicted between finding a place that authentic real Cubans go to and somewhere where there is toiler paper in the bathrooms and the food is reliable. La Chuchería tick …
3ra y D, Vedado
Doña Juana LH 3
This friendly paladar hides out in a newly painted but crumbling Vedado building. The place itself has a revamp in 2011 and now is a lot more upmarket than in the past. The terrace up top is huge done …
Open: Open noon-midnightCalle 19 No. 909, entre 6 y 8, Vedado
Las Tres Medallas LH 3
Las Tres Medallas was opened in September 2012 by Olympic champion Mireya Luis and her Italian husband. The name of the place refers to the three gold medals that Mireya won in Barcelona, Atlanta, and …
Calle 20 # 313, e/ Av. 3ª y 5ª.
Conde de Villanueva Hotel – Vuelta Abajo LH 3
This building was once the house of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, a 19th-century celebrity who played an important role in the Island’s economic, scientific and literary growth of the time, now home t …
Open: Open noon-11pm$48 - $83ROOMS: 9Mercaderes No. 102 esquina a Lamparilla
$48 - $83ROOMS: 9Mercaderes No. 102 esquina a Lamparilla
El Mercurio LH 3
Located on the ground floor of Lonja del Comercio, an old building that in 1996 was turned into the first modern office building in the Cuban capital, the Mercurio (Mercury) opened its doors on 27 Jan …
Open: Open 7am-midnightEdificio Lonja del Comercio, Plaza de San Francisco
