The best coffee in Cuba outside Havana is ignored by most of Varadero's tourists simply because they don't know about it. The reason: this open-all-hours cafe-bakery is in Santa Marta, the small settlement at the southwest end of the peninsula. Cafeccino is also notable for its cakes – served by the slice or whole.
The sweet union of cappuccino and tres leches cake, enjoyed on a funky stool as the hubbub of Cuban life pulsates around you, is a marriage made in heaven.