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Here are 10 cool and casual places that we are sure you will love.
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It’s easy to imagine large groups of friends having drinks and sharing stories in this glamorous bar-restaurant. Located in Centro...
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You can ask around and everyone will answer the same: El del Frente has the best cocktails in Havana. This place...
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Color Café stands out for its original approach.
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If you're not into glamorous cabarets or repetitive electronic music, the Bombilla Verde is made for you.
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If you're in Havana and love live music, here are five excellent bars to add to your go-to list
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For a dark, decadent and delightfully friendly, if slightly surreal, night out in Havana, this late-night Havana bar is close to perfect.
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Jama is an exciting new restaurant, offering a mix of Cuban and Japanese cuisines in Havana.
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The Cuban troubadours have taken over Bar Pazillo. Featuring renowned artists of the different genres every night of the week,...
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Set right in the middle of 23rd Street,"Efe" Bar is a tropical oasis of palms and banana trees that invites you to exchange the city's heat and asphalt streets for refreshing Daiquiris.
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Music is mostly electronic, a rare genre to find in Havana, and DJs from around the world frequently run the floor.
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Though people can take down a cocktail and nibble on some cocktails during the day, this establishment is all about the night life.
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Cuba’s most famous musicians can be seen hanging out in the VIP section at Fantaxy, which parties until 5 in the morning and enforces a strict dress code.
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When the bar takes up as much real estate as the tables, you should know where to invest your calories.
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Like so many of Havana's best spots, Espacios is hidden from plain sight set behind what looks like a typical Cuban residence.
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If you’re looking for the Havana you’ve seen in movies, this is it.
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This small jazz venue located in the middle of Vedado area is owned by one of Cuban jazz giants, Lázaro Valdés.
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This sensational bar, situated on the 34th floor of the tallest building of Cuba - FOCSA, has probably the best views in the city.
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Named after Richard Egues, a flute player and soloist in Cuba’s legendary Orquesta Aragón band, who went by the nickname “the magic flute”, this bar is located on the rooftop of a 10-floor building that is right in front of the United States Embassy in Havana.
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This gem Havana bar located in the iconic FOCSA building, the tallest building in Cuba in Vedado, fits all the criteria Luis Buñuel, the Spanish film director, described except one - music.
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Located in Old Havana on a small street facing Havana’s Capitolio, this privately owned bar resembles more like a cantina
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This spectacular venue, which is located upstairs at the legendary Teatro Nacional in Vedado, offers some spectacular performances anything from trovadores or Cuba’s singer-songwriters to some of the most sought-after salsa ensembles.
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The Yellow Submarine, a bar located in Havana's Vedado, owes its name, as some of you might have guessed, to the Beatles’ seminal record - Havana's homage to the British pop band.
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Café Cantante Mi Habana is located in the basement of the Teatro Nacional, one of the corners of the iconic Plaza de la Revolución. It is very lively and well-kept, with lots of space for dancing, and some of the hottest, up-and-coming bands on the local scene are often jamming there.
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One of the quirky bars in Havana, Bar Bohemio has more of a touch of elegance than what the name suggests.
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Havana’s bar scene is really varied. There are venerable places, steeped in history or associated with major literary figures, such as Hemingway’s favourite, El Floridita. Most of these are state-owned and major draws for foreign visitors.
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Located in Central Havana just behind The Capitolio, Sia-Kara bar is a gem that has not yet made it onto many tourists’ radar.
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King Bar in Vedado, Havana is definitely ruling the night scene like a king. This is one of the top bars the city has to offer.
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Overlooking 17 Street in Miramar, Havana, where old American cars roam by, the atmosphere in Madrigal is unfettered by the bustling on the street.
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Sloppy Joe's bar was perhaps one of the most luminous and lustrous places along side with Tropicana and Salón Rojo del Capri during the 1950s in Havana.
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El Floridita is an institution in Havana for its daiquiri and its association with the towering literary figure Ernest Hemingway.
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La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, popularized by Hemingway has never seen a shortage of patrons. If you want mojitos, this is the place.
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Corner café comes alive during the night when hip young Cubans converge in this pub for live music performances, DJ jam sessions and sultry jazz dancing.
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Fábrica de Arte Cubano, an avant-garde artistic bar in Vedado area in Havana, is born out of the initiative of renowned Cuban musician X-Alfonso.
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If you are pressed for time and have to pick one place to go for great food and drinks, make it O’Reilly 304, a hip and trendy bar in Old Havana.
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El Cocinero, an airy bar in Vedado, has one of the most extensive drink menus in Havana. There are over 30 different cocktails.