| p>José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), a very | | | | customers yearly, as well as it is integrated to cultural |
| polemic Cuban author, who wrote the novel Paradiso | | | | galas in the Plaza de la Catedral due to the parties for |
| chose El Patio restaurant in La Habana Vieja as | | | | the New Year and they supply those events with their |
| cuisine headquarter, a site of many aromas and a | | | | dishes, 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 the | | | | oriented, 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 a | | | | dishes. |
| pleasant place worth to be visited in order to try some | | | | Of course, there is a range of the Cuban intellectuality |
| of its excellent dishes served in a unique decoration | | | | that 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 1982 | | | | Victor Manuel, Posada, the Ecuadorian Oswaldo |
| has been opened for more than 40 years February | | | | Guayasamín, the writer Alejo Carpentier, the |
| 28, 1965) in the Plaza de la Catedral at the ancient | | | | Nicaraguan 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 tourists | | | | the Ministries of culture from different countries. |
| do day after day, who walk alone or in group the | | | | Some of them dead, giving supreme soul and |
| historic-cultural areas in this neighborhood, through | | | | spirituality, other alive, renewing each day the linage of |
| stone treets, and fachades that still have the traces of | | | | the 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 18th | | | | incomparable moment. |
| century, the Casa del Marqués de Aguas | | | | Spanish, Italians and French prefer them due to their |
| Claras, that was used for different purposes until it | | | | variety in a carte of 32 dishes of international food and |
| was a very luxury dining house. It is worth passing by | | | | local (typical) above all, supported by national renown |
| for those who have a demanding taste. The facitlity | | | | products such as the rum, the cigar and the coffee. |
| features 350 seats, spread in four restaurants, a coffe | | | | An excellent wine carte ends the list, where the meats |
| shop in the portal of the house and two snack-bar, as | | | | could be very well accompanied, but also seafood is |
| well as a show room with 13 seats, that makes it a | | | | demanded 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 thousand | | | | feast. |