El Patio Restaurant in Havana, For the Best Gourmet

p>José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), a verycustomers yearly, as well as it is integrated to cultural
polemic Cuban author, who wrote the novel Paradisogalas in the Plaza de la Catedral due to the parties for
chose El Patio restaurant in La Habana Vieja asthe New Year and they supply those events with their
cuisine headquarter, a site of many aromas and adishes, where thousands of people attend yearly.
daydreaming environment.The staff tells that their marketing strategy is client
For the writer, who compared once the lamb to theoriented, the quality of the offer, historic-cultural
reading and placing them in their corresponding place,potential of the facility and a greater publicity of their
without discrediting one before another, it was adishes.
pleasant place worth to be visited in order to try someOf course, there is a range of the Cuban intellectuality
of its excellent dishes served in a unique decorationthat is bound to this trategy since, apart from Lezama
environment.Lima, there are frequent comers such as the painters
A site declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1982Victor Manuel, Posada, the Ecuadorian Oswaldo
has been opened for more than 40 years FebruaryGuayasamín, the writer Alejo Carpentier, the
28, 1965) in the Plaza de la Catedral at the ancientNicaraguan politician Daniel Ortega, the Cuban musician
area of the capital, ideal to know about its history.Frank Fernández and Juan Formell, as well as
Lezama Lima chose the best, as hundreds of touriststhe Ministries of culture from different countries.
do day after day, who walk alone or in group theSome of them dead, giving supreme soul and
historic-cultural areas in this neighborhood, throughspirituality, other alive, renewing each day the linage of
stone treets, and fachades that still have the traces ofthe restaurant, they enforce a unique environment that
the colonial architecture.many people claim not just to eat by to live an
The restaurant is located in a house of the 18thincomparable moment.
century, the Casa del Marqués de AguasSpanish, Italians and French prefer them due to their
Claras, that was used for different purposes until itvariety in a carte of 32 dishes of international food and
was a very luxury dining house. It is worth passing bylocal (typical) above all, supported by national renown
for those who have a demanding taste. The facitlityproducts such as the rum, the cigar and the coffee.
features 350 seats, spread in four restaurants, a coffeAn excellent wine carte ends the list, where the meats
shop in the portal of the house and two snack-bar, ascould be very well accompanied, but also seafood is
well as a show room with 13 seats, that makes it ademanded in order to taste them with white wine and
renewing complex.then to complete the dinner. The Patio is a truly Cuban
The Patio gives service to approximately 25 thousandfeast.