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Café Tilin is a place that you must visit in Havana, for the excellent coffee and the peculiarity of its menu, where you can find: Chocolate Pizza, Fried Ice Cream and Pork Chocolates ... what about that? !!

You should also try the cream of malanga and an exquisite frapuccino in the style of Tilín. If you are visiting Havana, visit Café Tilín, you will not regret it !!! "

Address. Galiano No. 119, Havana 10200, Cuba Ph. 53 7 8644790

AN HONEST COOKING IN THE HEART OF HAVANA
Best for Beautiful modern décor and good food. A place to enjoy a different cuisine with a quality product, fresh, seasonal. Don’t miss Pork rack of ribs in honey. Sweet & sour sauce and grilled pineapple.
Address: Calle 35 #1810 e/ 20 y 41, Playa, +537 203 - 8315

Swedish chic in the midst of tropical Havana? This is precisely the exotic mix that the Swedish-Cuban owner Michel Miglis (a film director and music producer) wanted to achieve—a meeting point for creative people from Havana and around the world. The Nordic menu is designed by Swedish cook Jonas Anderson, replete with seafood casserole and nuggets a lo Cubano. Either way, the Casa Miglis team is on the hunt for selected local fish and fresh avocado for its eclectic dishes. This new restaurant leads the recent trend of youthful, arty restaurants that have radicalised the traditional Cuban scene (it was voted best restaurant in central Havana by Cuba Absolutely)—and it does it with trademark Northern cool.
Address:  Lealtad 120, Animas y Lagunas, Central Havana, +537-8641486.

A ramshackle 19th-century residential neighbourhood in Centro Habana is not the place you'd expect to find some of the tastiest, most expertly prepared cuisine in the city, but La Guarida is not your average paladar. Scaling the winding staircase to the third floor of this withered apartment building, the set of the award-winning Cuban film Fresa y Chocolate, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd got the wrong place, until a door opens into the atmospheric and idiosyncratic family-run restaurant. Dine on dishes such as sugar-cane tuna glazed with coconut, or fish salad with crunchy vegetables and peanuts in one of three intimate, moodily lit dining rooms, as you take in the eclectic wall displays, from abstract art and cigar labels to pictures of Castro. 
Address: Calle Concordia 418, between Gervasio and Escobar, Centro Habana, Havana +53 7 863 7351; www.laguarida.com 

Tucked in an Old Havana alley away from the main tourist path, but busy enough to give you a taste of true Cuban street life, this homely paladar (an independently-run restaurant) is a staple of old Creole cuisine. The owner, Laetitia, refuses to let go of the culinary secrets that were passed on to her by her mother. She cooks classic Creole dishes such as malanga fritters and the ropa vieja (shredded lamb), invariably accompanied by black beans, salad and rice, next to lots of fresh seafood and exotic fruits. With big portions at reasonable prices, it is popular with both locals and tourists, so expect to eat in good company.
Address: Callejón del Chorro No 60c, Plaza de la Catedral,+535 270 6433.

One of Havana's top private restaurants bar none, La Fontana's European-style menu is inspired. With charcoal-grilled sausages, cilantro spiked ceviche and Dijon mustard dressed rabbit as highlights, La Fontana specialises in dishes typically not found elsewhere in Cuba. The people watching is great too, since famous locals frequent this intimate place. The new Eden Bar, added in 2012, is spectacular and gives a good idea of how sophisticated Havana is becoming. It doesn’t get going until 0100 at the earliest.
Address: Calle 3ra A #305, Havana, Cuba, +537 202 8337 or 264 7572.
Website: www.lafontanahabana.com

Best for: Authentic, charming and intimate atmosphere in Cuba’s best known restaurant. Great food, professional. Classy.For quality food, impeccable service & intimate ambience.
Superb Cuban-Creole/International menuDine in a beautifully restored 19th-century colonial building just one block away from the emblematic Malecón drive and seawall. La California is located on the place where legendary Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo used to hang out.
La California now offers a tour of Havana in a Classic Vintage Car plus lunch or dinner. Your chauffeur will pick you up from your hotel or private accommodation and show you around the historical sights of this incredible city for one hour before heading to La California.
Address: Concordia #418 e/ Gervasio y Escobar, Centro Habana, +537 866 - 9047

Has got to win the most surprisingly good place in Havana award. This looks like a hole in the wall place in a downright run down looking part of Old Havana. It is a hassle to get to by car and a little off the beautified Havana tourist track.
Address: Calle Teniente Rey #457a, Habana Vieja, +537 872 - 8227

Cuba Absolutely Review: December 2012 La Cocina de Lilliam is set in the gardens of a beautiful villa in Miramar. This is right at the top of the list of many visitors’ dream list. It is easy to see why with the romantic, artfully lit garden full of greenery and splashing fountains many miles..
Address: Calle 48 No. 1311, entre 13 y 15, Playa, +537 209 - 6514

La Moraleja is the point of the story, the moral of a kid’s fable. The philosophy of this new paladar located in the ample backyard of a Vedado mansion is “Dreaming is free, so dream on, you’re at La Moraleja, a dream come true.” Spacious outdoors terrace with minimalist but tasteful décor. Personal service.
Address: Calle 25 No. 454, entre J e I, Vedado, +537 832 - 0963

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 ticks a number of boxes. Top of the list is that it is always lively, always happening...
Here’s the thing about Cubans and dining out: because so many restaurants serve variations of what they would have at home anyway -- and, many Cubans lack the disposable income needed to eat out frequently -- the most popular restaurants in Havana either a) serve something radically different than what they'd cook at home, or b) serve massive portions of cheap food. La Chucheria hits both quotas. It’s a simple pizza and sandwich joint, set up like a traditional Western diner. Stop in here if you are short on cash, or just a little homesick for some good ol’ American-style grease.
Address: 3ra y D, Vedado

Atelier is a contemporary space in an idiosyncratic Havana mansion, with a large main room and two balconies with boundless cushions. An antique hob outside and old sewing and adding machines inside give the place a retro feel.
Atelier is run by Niuris Higueras, who has long nutured her passion for exciting food: the menu changes every day. While Niuris is the inspiration, Enrique is the experienced chef and together they create an eclectic range of dishes, including falafels, pato confitado (duck confit), lomito de res con camarones y espuma de apio al olivo (sirloin steak with shrimp and celery mousse), conejo al vino (rabbit in wine) to cerdo asado (roast pork). Desserts are standard (flan, tarts, ice cream) but good. The food is consistently excellent, if a little unpredictable, as is the service. 
Address: Calle 5, between Paseo y Calle 2, Vedado, +537 836 2025

“Good Havana restaurant with good vegetarian options”
El Litoral on the Malecon is a very upscale but reasonably priced restaurant, that offers a major salad buffet, with lots of variety, a pleasant surprise in this country of tasteless soggy cucumbers and tomatoes. We recommends the almond-encrusted succulent whitefish, served with spinach and yam gnocchi. Great desserts, great and friendly service. All in: 50 Pesos/dollars. 
Address: Malecón #161 e/ K y L, Vedado, +537 830 - 2201

The entrance to Café Laurent gives little away. Although it is just around the corner from the famous Hotel Nacional, you have to be guided into the apartment building, where a small antique elevator takes you up to the penthouse. This is not a charming family-run paladar, but a stylish and professional restaurant, foremost in the new wave of private eating establishments in Havana.
The paladar has an updated 1950s feel. Old newspapers with 1950s adverts cover the back wall. Billowing white awnings outside provide shade and a touch of modern Miami.
Dayron Aviles Alfonso is the Cuban chef who, having worked in San Sebastián as well as in Buenos Aires, is comfortable with the Spanish Basque-based menu. The food is excellent. Red snapper with clams and shrimp in green sauce (pargo con almejas y gambas en salsa verde) is fabulous. Shrimps, steak, meatballs and salads are all well done, while the biscotti de chocolate is irresistible. On Sundays, try the lunch special: tasty paella or risotto.
Address: Calle M No 257, between Calles 19 and 21, Vedado, +537 831 2090

Cuisine: Chinese
Havana's Chinatown is small, with the heart of things happening along the ‘cuchillo’ (diagonal alley), where restaurants packed cheek by jowl angle for diners. The best of the lot is this popular place anchoring the alley’s southern end. The house speciality is res al hierro caliente (beef on hot iron), or try the equally delicious seafood soup; adventurous eaters might point to one of the specials listed on the wall (in Chinese!). The food is authentic Cuban Chinese and the portions generous.
Address: Calle Zanja 1 & San Nicolás, Centro Habana, Havana, Cuba, +537 861 5478.