Te Quedarás

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Te quedarás means 'you will stay,' and you probably will if you can bag a seat on the small, narrow wrought-iron balcony overlooking El Bulevar. Sip a shaved-ice daiquiri as the live band breaks into something by Benny Moré (such as 'Te Quedarás,' which was one of his more popular songs).

The restaurant is something of a shrine to Moré, and it has a lovely ambience with a mahogany bar, mambo-era black-and-white photos and those elegant Cienfuegos columns. The food is almost secondary, but it delivers, especially the prawns.

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