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Ok, everybody knows this place and maybe it has more tips than other places on this web site. Just let me advice U that the place is really touristic, don´t spect to find same atmosfere as 20 or more years ago. Prices are very high. Mojito, the Hemingway drink is not so god here and it´s expensive, 5 cuc. On other places you´ll find it for 2 and twice as good. But neverthless, take some time and visit the place, it has the walls full of signs of the people that have been there, including Fidel, Salvador Allende and many famous writers and artists from the ´50´s, 60´s and 70´s.
Mojito mojito and mojito...you can eat theri food. It's tipical cuban food, black beans, rice and steak. I prefer only to take a few drinks and keep walking. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: US$21-30 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: Calle Empedrado No. 206. Ciudad de La HabanaDirections: Near Plaza de La Catedral in Old Havana, don't worry, everybody know the place, take care of the jineteros
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La Bodeguita del Medio No visit to Havana is complete without at least one visit to Ernest Hemingway's favorite watering hole, at 207 Calle Empedrado, tel. 62-6121, half a block west of the cathedral. This neighborhood hangout was originally the coachhouse of the mansion next door (that of the Countess de la Reunion). Later it was a bodega, a mom-and-pop grocery store that served drinks and food over the counter. The owner, Martínez, hit upon a brilliant idea: he gave writers credit. The writers, of course, wrote about their newfound hangout, thereby attracting literati and cognoscenti from around the world. You enter through a saloon-style swinging door. The bar is immediately on your right, with the restaurant behind (note the beautiful tilework along the passageway wall). The bar is usually crowded with tourists, who ebb and flow. Troubadors move among the thirsty turistas. Between tides, you can still savor the proletarian fusion of dialectics and rum. (The house drink is the mojito, the rum mint julep—US$3—that Hemingway brought out of obscurity and turned into the national drink.) The rustic wooden bar is carved with names. Miscellaneous bric-a-brac adorns the walls: posters, paintings, and faded black-and-white photos of Papa Hemingway, Carmen Miranda, and other famous visitors. The walls look as if a swarm of adolescents has been given amphetamines and let loose with crayons. The most famous graffiti, of course, is credited to Papa: 'Mi Mojito En La Bodeguita, Mi Daiquiri En El Floridita,' he supposedly scrawled on the sky-blue walls. Errol Flynn thought it 'A Great Place To Get Drunk.' Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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