La Bodeguita del Medio is a typical restaurant-bar of Havana. It is a famous tourist destination because of the personalities which have patronized it: Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda, the artist Josignacio and many others. La Bodeguita lays claim to being the birthplace of the Mojito cocktail, prepared in the bar since its opening in 1942, although this is disputed. The rooms are full of curious objects, frames, photos, as well as the walls covered by signatures of famous or unknown customers, recounting the island’s past.
The menu is typically Cuban: boiled rice, black beans, pork shank, manioc, pig shank roasted in its juice, pork rinds and toasted fried plantains.
Traditional restaurant founded by a Spanish immigrant Angel Martínez who bought the place with the idea of opening a grocery store. It took him only a few moths failure to decide a change of strategy, -The location wasn’t properly situated far from the center and from the corners- so now he opened a small time restaurant. The business served drinks and traditional food right over the counter for very low prices as a competitive offer. But the owner had another hided card, he gave credit to all the writers in town and as a payback the promised to promote the place by writing some advertising. Also the idea of leaving the customers to sign down the walls inside the restaurant was also magisterial. From all the hundreds of advertisings written on the walls the most famous it’s still the one done by papa Hemingway “Mi mojito en la bodeguita and mi Daiquiry en el Floridita”.