Bar "two Brothers" in Havana

Next to the bay, by the passing boats in Havana, thebreakfast, or just to see couples full of love dancing
bar Two Brothers (also known as "Dos Hermanos") isa Bolero or a Son while others sip their drink even
a shelter for those who need a cool drink after awithout noticing the others.
walk in the warm capital, or a night corner forIt 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 toAmerican. 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 thataccompany drinks such as rum or beer, with oisters.
regularly carries to a town across the bay, avoidingThe 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 dealcombinations, apparently for visitors in a rush, but
with prostitutes (mujeres de la vida), but it has nowmany times they take their time to listen to
regained all the good from inside to show it toanecdotes 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 1894It is a site to take a seat and recall other times, to
was rebuilt, until 1945 when it was regularly visited bylisten to the music of a septet at dusk, when the sun
North American who formed the army of the Unitedis almost reaching the sea, and after midnight; to talk
States, but it was also the favorite place for theto friends. That was, as it seems, the environment
Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.that Lorca liked the most.
A rare combination of worldly space and poeticAs a magic story such as those of the Habana Vieja,
environment accompanies its current 80 seats, in athe restaurant is called two ways, Two Brothers and
first hall, almost next to the street, and divided byDos Hermanos, since its original owners were Spanish,
wooden pieces, and another one to the back, morebut 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 musiciancomprises the mystery of the docks, the fresh air in
Benny Moré used to visit here, as well as thethe 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