This grand coffeehouse is a traditional haunt for writers and journalists, who linger for hours over a café americano. People come for the history, not the food. Legend has it that Fidel and Che plotted strategy here prior to the Cuban revolution, and that Gabriel García Márquez wrote some of Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) here.
Café La Habana
Zona Rosa & Reforma
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