On to The Paladar.....

After a good time with Miguel and getting his business card, I had a few hours to refresh before I was meeting Miguel 1 to go a Cuban Paladar for dinner. But first, I wanted to make a drink stop at Dos Hermanos meaning two brothers. A waterfront bar and hangout of Hemingway. We hung out for a while watching the game on TV. But to be honest, the daiquiri was just adequate but the atmosphere was stop on....now it was time to find the Paladar and eat.

Paladar is a term used in Cuba to refer to restaurants run by self-employers. Mostly family-run businesses, paladares are fundamentally directed to serve as a counterpart of state run restaurants for tourist seeking for a most vivid interaction with Cuban reality, and looking for homemade Cuban food.

The place in old Havana in an old building up the stairs and into an atmospheric main dining room with beautiful young Cuban women in shirt white dresses and cowboy hats. The coming into this place from the darken street and up a few flights of old stairs is worth the price of admission. The food is way too much and excellent. I had a dish of various seafood in a Cuban tomato sauce that I wish I could have taken home the extras. A choice stop especially for romantics------El Guajirito