The "Pollo Cabana", and the Restaurant-Bar Cabana - Good Taste, Plenty of Color

As a special characteristic, since some years ago thecome to this place are U.S. travelers, Canadian,
French tourists visiting Cuba are especially fond ofSpanish and Italian; these tourists spend hours tasting
the "Pollo Cabaña", a specialty only found in thethese recipes, drinking, chatting or just watching the
restaurant with the same name (Restaurant-Barsea.
Cabañas), across from the Havana'sThe next floor features 60 seats, sheltered by a
Malecón (8 km long seawall).canopy and with a gentle breeze; it is followed by a
This preference is a fact that shows the increasingrestaurant with air conditioning in the lower floor, for
presence of French travelers who chose the Cuba,24 customers, and 58 seats in the first floor.
this warm Caribbean destination as a quiet site of aAround 200 people come to the Cabaña daily,
vast amount of beauty as to nature, society, historyalthough on weekends the public flow is bigger and it
and culture.can surpass the 400 customers day and night.
This place we are referring to is very appealing sinceAs a curious detail, out of more than two million
it is located in a crossroads (Cuba St. and the cornerforeign travelers who visit Cuba each year, and it is
of Peña Pobre) very frequented by the peoplebeing four in a row; at least the 70 percent meet the
who would like to know the capital of the Island.capital and especially the 95 percent of them, the
Here, there is a house from the end of the 18thhistorical area, where the Bar Cabaña is.
century. The mansion used to belong to a SpanishThe Habana Vieja was declared by UNESCO in 1982
trader first, who used it as a restaurant, where theyas Cultural World Heritage, with varied museums,
used to offer chicken and seafood, with a very goodalleys and parks, very interesting for the visitor; as
winery.well as places of intimacy for eating or sharing with
Moreover, it was covered with Cuban fine wood andfriends, the Cabaña among them.
carpentry, and it used to be very pleasant and it isIt is difficult to describe in a few lines the pleasant
still. With the passing time, other traders owned theenvironment of the restaurant, and the perfect view
place and followed the tradition until 1995, when itabove the old part of the villa, across the old
was renewed and named as it is today.Amphitheatre of Havana and where there are always
The menu with a wide variety of dishes alsopasser-by, tourists and locals as well. An area with
features other specialties of the islet's cuisine and thetropical or autochthonous rhythms played in each
eating ways of other countries, along with around 30corner, in each block by mostly professional bands. A
brands of wines from all over the world.truly Cuban feast, not just a dream.
Other nationalities of the variety of visitors who