| Next to the bay, by the passing boats in Havana, the | | | | breakfast, or just to see couples full of love dancing |
| bar Two Brothers (also known as "Dos Hermanos") is | | | | a Bolero or a Son while others sip their drink even |
| a shelter for those who need a cool drink after a | | | | without noticing the others. |
| walk in the warm capital, or a night corner for | | | | It is a place of a constant life and most of the |
| bohemian travelers. | | | | foreign customers are from Germany, Italy and North |
| Opened across the street, it is a perfect place to | | | | American. Along with the drink, they serve fried |
| watch the pedestrian in a rush to reach the dock in | | | | "majúa", those fried little fish unique to |
| time to ride the "lanchita" de Regla, a boat that | | | | accompany drinks such as rum or beer, with oisters. |
| regularly carries to a town across the bay, avoiding | | | | The Cuban food is the most served, pork, bread |
| the long ride in automobile. | | | | with beef steak, local beer… Varied |
| This is a place with history, some of it used to deal | | | | combinations, apparently for visitors in a rush, but |
| with prostitutes (mujeres de la vida), but it has now | | | | many times they take their time to listen to |
| regained all the good from inside to show it to | | | | anecdotes and to talk to the staff who know about |
| tourists interested in knowing the Cuban people. | | | | legends. |
| In 1817 it was a dining place for seamen and in 1894 | | | | It is a site to take a seat and recall other times, to |
| was rebuilt, until 1945 when it was regularly visited by | | | | listen to the music of a septet at dusk, when the sun |
| North American who formed the army of the United | | | | is almost reaching the sea, and after midnight; to talk |
| States, but it was also the favorite place for the | | | | to friends. That was, as it seems, the environment |
| Spanish poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca. | | | | that Lorca liked the most. |
| A rare combination of worldly space and poetic | | | | As a magic story such as those of the Habana Vieja, |
| environment accompanies its current 80 seats, in a | | | | the restaurant is called two ways, Two Brothers and |
| first hall, almost next to the street, and divided by | | | | Dos Hermanos, since its original owners were Spanish, |
| wooden pieces, and another one to the back, more | | | | but due to the flow of northerners it was turned into |
| intimate. | | | | the language of Shakespeare and so remained. |
| Its present-day location remains as it used to be, | | | | Run by the Habaguanex S.A. Company, this facility |
| recalls the time when the Cuban outstanding musician | | | | comprises the mystery of the docks, the fresh air in |
| Benny Moré used to visit here, as well as the | | | | the afternoon and the scent of the oil in the frying |
| dancer Isadora Duncan and the actor Eduard J. | | | | pan spread along with the feeling of a sip of that |
| Robinson. | | | | Cuban rum remarked by so many people. |
| Many people come to the place to take a peaceful | | | | |