Siá Kará Café

Havana


In Starbucks-free Havana, every cafe is individual and Siá Kará exhibits its character with graffiti-covered tables, an old tie collection and a parody of the Mona Lisa flipping the bird. Although ostensibly a bar-cafe, it serves everything from Varadero lobster to crusty chicken sandwiches. The cushioned benches under the stairs are the perfect place to crack open a thick novel.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Havana attractions

1. Capitolio Nacional

0.06 MILES

The incomparable Capitolio Nacional is Havana's most ambitious and grandiose building, constructed after the post-WWI boom ('Dance of the Millions')…

2. Museo de las Telecomunicaciones

0.09 MILES

A small museum in Centro Habana's Etecsa Telepunto office. Among the antique phones and telegraph equipment is some interesting material relating to…

3. Parque de la Fraternidad

0.14 MILES

Leafy Parque de la Fraternidad was established in 1892 to commemorate the fourth centenary of the Spanish landing in the Americas. A few decades later it…

4. Gran Teatro de la Habana Alicia Alonso

0.15 MILES

The neobaroque Gran Teatro de la Habana Alicia Alonso, erected as a Galician social club between 1907 and 1914, features highly ornate and even exuberant…

5. Fuente de la India

0.17 MILES

Spare a glance for this white Carrara-marble fountain, carved by Giuseppe Gaggini in 1837 for the Count of Villanueva and now situated on a traffic island…

6. Hotel Inglaterra

0.19 MILES

Havana's oldest hotel opened its doors in 1856 on the site of a popular bar called El Louvre (the hotel's alfresco bar still bears that name). Facing…

7. Parque Central

0.2 MILES

Diminutive Parque Central is a verdant haven from the belching buses and roaring taxis that ply the Paseo de Martí. Long a microcosm of daily Havana life,…

8. Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba

0.21 MILES

To untangle the mysteries of the Santería religion, its saints and their powers, decamp to this museum–cultural center. Aside from sculpted effigies of…