Restaurant El Floridita: Cradle and Temple of Daiquiri
Over 190 years of history have given prestige to the Floridita restaurant.
This emblematic place opened its doors back in 1817.
It's located at the corners of Obispo and Montserrat streets, in the attractive tourist destination of Old Havana.
If you come to the installation, you will find this warmth that will make you feel like you are home.
Also, you will taste the pleasures of the palate; both by their beverages and meals, and you will be caught for so many other charms of El Floridita.
The rich history of El Floridita stores endearing anecdotes about what was and is Havana today.
All along the history, visitors of the finest culture, politics, art, and social life have enjoyed this restaurant.
Excellent cocktails and exquisite dishes based on fish and seafood prepared by culinary masters have given the restaurant the fame earned all around the world.
The Daiquiri is its emblematic drink an is a type of cocktail made with rum and lime juice.
The bar has in its menu more than 400 combinations, all refreshing drinks.
Besides, the names hide behind stories, legends, characters and important moments of the Cuban culture and history.
For the American writer Ernest Hemingway just one visit to El Floridita was enough.
He forever fell in love with one of the most emblematic places of Havana and Cuba: "The Cradle of the Daiquiri".
The writer took to El Floridita some of his illustrious friends.
Among those are the Dukes of Windsor, Errol Flynn, Gene Tunney, Jean Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper, Dominguin, Tennessee Williams, Charles Scribner, Spencer Tracy, Rocky Marciano, Ava Gardner, Samuel Eliot Morison, Buck Lanham, Herbert Matthews.
Several generations of Cubans, as well as foreigners have passed by the famous Floridita bar while visiting Havana.
Well known personalities as Giorgio Armani & Ornella Mutti, Imanol Arias, Jean Michel Jarre, Matt Dillon, Pierre, Turner and Fonda, Pierce Brosnan, Naomi Campell, Compay Segundo, Ana Belen, Victor Manuel, Fernando Campoamor, and Paco Rabanne are some names of a list that never ends.
However, El Floridita is not only distinguished by the cocktails.
It's also one of the most elegant and exclusive restaurants in town.
It offers the best of national and international food, as well as a varied wine list.
Therefore, this magnificent restaurant is ideal for your Cuba holidays.
In 1953 the Esquire magazine recognized it as one of the seven most popular bars in the world.
Later, in 1992 it was awarded with the prize Best of the Best Five Star Diamond Award, given by the American Academy of Gastronomic Sciences as the King of Daiquiri and the more representative restaurant specializing in seafood.
The constant affluence of tourists confirms that the bar-restaurant El Floridita remains as reference for its charm and history.
Currently the Palmares Extra Hotel Cuban Company has facilities with the same name in other cities like London, Madrid, Dublin and Moscow, and the success is similar.
This emblematic place opened its doors back in 1817.
It's located at the corners of Obispo and Montserrat streets, in the attractive tourist destination of Old Havana.
If you come to the installation, you will find this warmth that will make you feel like you are home.
Also, you will taste the pleasures of the palate; both by their beverages and meals, and you will be caught for so many other charms of El Floridita.
The rich history of El Floridita stores endearing anecdotes about what was and is Havana today.
All along the history, visitors of the finest culture, politics, art, and social life have enjoyed this restaurant.
Excellent cocktails and exquisite dishes based on fish and seafood prepared by culinary masters have given the restaurant the fame earned all around the world.
The Daiquiri is its emblematic drink an is a type of cocktail made with rum and lime juice.
The bar has in its menu more than 400 combinations, all refreshing drinks.
Besides, the names hide behind stories, legends, characters and important moments of the Cuban culture and history.
For the American writer Ernest Hemingway just one visit to El Floridita was enough.
He forever fell in love with one of the most emblematic places of Havana and Cuba: "The Cradle of the Daiquiri".
The writer took to El Floridita some of his illustrious friends.
Among those are the Dukes of Windsor, Errol Flynn, Gene Tunney, Jean Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper, Dominguin, Tennessee Williams, Charles Scribner, Spencer Tracy, Rocky Marciano, Ava Gardner, Samuel Eliot Morison, Buck Lanham, Herbert Matthews.
Several generations of Cubans, as well as foreigners have passed by the famous Floridita bar while visiting Havana.
Well known personalities as Giorgio Armani & Ornella Mutti, Imanol Arias, Jean Michel Jarre, Matt Dillon, Pierre, Turner and Fonda, Pierce Brosnan, Naomi Campell, Compay Segundo, Ana Belen, Victor Manuel, Fernando Campoamor, and Paco Rabanne are some names of a list that never ends.
However, El Floridita is not only distinguished by the cocktails.
It's also one of the most elegant and exclusive restaurants in town.
It offers the best of national and international food, as well as a varied wine list.
Therefore, this magnificent restaurant is ideal for your Cuba holidays.
In 1953 the Esquire magazine recognized it as one of the seven most popular bars in the world.
Later, in 1992 it was awarded with the prize Best of the Best Five Star Diamond Award, given by the American Academy of Gastronomic Sciences as the King of Daiquiri and the more representative restaurant specializing in seafood.
The constant affluence of tourists confirms that the bar-restaurant El Floridita remains as reference for its charm and history.
Currently the Palmares Extra Hotel Cuban Company has facilities with the same name in other cities like London, Madrid, Dublin and Moscow, and the success is similar.
