Holguin & Guardalavaca Paladars & Restaurants

Paladar Adecuado

Los Álamos

Holguín

Canalcubano: This is a small restaurant among the best in the city of its kind, specialized in Italian food with a good service and cheap prices. There are usually many people here.

La Bodeguita de Holguín

Holguin

Canalcubano: Nice and cheap restaurant whose menu is based on creole cuisine. It has also mixed-grill and bar.

El Bosque

Conuco de Mongo Viña

Playa Esmeralda
Holguín.
Tel: (24) 30915

Canalcubano: Nice country side restaurant, situated in the middle of sown fields, cows, chickens and all kind of farm animals. Provides a short but tasteful menu based on basic specialities of traditional local gastronomy, including good meat, fish and sea-food. You can reach the place from Esmeralda beach or by boat from the Cayo Naranjo aquarium.

Cubanitas

Doñaneli

La Floresta

La Güira

Cayo Saetía
Holguín

Canalcubano: This is a restaurant very interesting for its gastronomic proposals. It offers antelope as well as cattle food and, sometimes, deer or even local fish.

Hacienda Compay Gallo

Holguín

Canalcubano: This is a unique country establishment that offers creole meals within an environment of a nineteenth century plantation. Its speciality is the Chicken Compay Gallo. In that place, there is also the breeding of pheasants, quails, cocks and guinea-hens, that is why the menu is so varied and attractive. There are usually live performances of groups of traditional kind of music. Prices are very good.

El Laurel

Paladar Luna Azul

Mirador de Mayabe

Villa Mirador de Mayabe
Holguín
Tel: (24)422160

Canalcubano: Rustic Ranchón situated in the outskirts of Holguín, in a beautiful lookout on Mayabe Valley. People may enjoy a nice sweeping view in a country ambience, specially in front of a dining table full of creole food. The famous donkey Pancho, heavy beer drinker, is the main attraction of the place.

La Palma

La Playa

Cayo Saetía
Holguín

Canalcubano: This is a very exotic place made of wood and guano located on one of the beaches of this key. Meals, often served in buffet, are acceptable and salads are very good.

El Pequinés

Holguin

Canalcubano: This is a small and successful restaurant of Holguín. It has an acceptable variety of dishes, being its speciality "costilla de cerdo ahumada" -smoked pig rib, in English-.

Paladar Riberon

Sofía

Av. Jorge Dimitrov
Holguin
Tel: 481011

Canalcubano: This is a restaurant whose name, and the Hotel Sofia to which it belongs, is dedicated to the Bulgarian leader Jorge Dimitrov as well as the avenue where the building lies. The restaurant has a big eating-room and the food is acceptable.

Salón 1720

Calle Frexes esquina a Miró
Holguín
Tel: (24) 468150

Canalcubano: Within the walls of this antic, magnificent building you will find a small area provided with a bar, shops, terrace-club, exposition and selling of art works and one of the best restaurants of Holguín. Its decoration is refined, the furniture tasteful and the delicious food is shifting between the international kind and the typical criollo. Its standard is remaining stable and prices are okay.

Taberna de Pancho

Ave. Jorge Dimitrov
Holguin
Tel: (24)481868

Canalcubano: Conveniently situated and near Hotel Pernik and El Bosque Village, they offer good creole sausages, the house's specialty. Sausage dish variety is not so wide like the Spanish's. European think so.

Pico Cristal

R Manduley esq. Martí
Holguin
Tel: (24)425855

Canalcubano: Centrally located, the Restaurant offer fine dining and high quality service. International Cuisine is the specialty. It is among the tourists' dining preference in Holguín.

Restaurante Polinesio

Avenida Lenin. Edificio 18 Plantas.
Holguin
Tel: (24) 455234

Canalcubano: Situated in the twelfth floor of Holguin´s highest building, you will enjoy the same breathtaking view as a bird flying over the roofs of the city. Its menu, based on a mere international kitchen, nevertheless doesn´t offer the same variety and authenticity we usually expect from restaurants wearing this name. Nice prices.

Paladar la Tenura

Paladar Yelly Boom

Martí #180
Tel: 424096

Canalcubano: "Sabor y Amor" -Taste and Love- this is the motto of the place written in its entry placard. It is right because this place offers a tasty creole cuisine and a lovely service. In Holguín, a city with few restaurants, this is one of the recommended addresses to eat well.

El Ancla

Las Arcadas

Atabey

Casa Criolla

El Cayuelo

Seafood
Playa Guardalavaca
Banes
Tel: (42) 30736

Canalcubano: Spacious and comfortable restaurant which could be much nicer with the decoration of its walls and roof redone. The menu, simple fare style, offers a few international dishes and a lot of local Cuban ones, especially sea-food and fish. The level of the food is correct. There are only a few wines but good cocktails and beers.

El Framboyán

El Jagüey

El Patio de los Artistas

Seafood
Hotel Brisas
Guardalavaca
Banes
Tel: (24)30221

Canalcubano: Set in Las Brisas Club Resort Hotel and Villages, the Restaurant is one of the favorite of the Tourist Pole. God food and 'singing waiters' who adds a special seasoning to the saloon service.

Pizza Nova

Playa de Guardalavaca
Holguín
Tel: (24) 30137

Canalcubano: It is part of an important chain of Italian restaurants. As usual in this kind of establishments, the level of the food is neither very good nor very bad. Its decoration is cute and the ambient good. A favourite place for all those who like to sunbathe on the beaches near by.

La Terraza

El Toto

La Trattoria

La Turquesa

El Uvero

La Vicaria

Comidas ligeras
Playa Guardalavaca
Banes

Canalcubano: Light food, (relatively) fast service, cheap. For people who want it the easy way. Open 24 hours a day. A place good to know about.

El Zaguán

Cocina criolla y internacional
Hotel Brisas
Guardalavaca
Banes
Tel: (24)30121 Fax: (24)30018

Canalcubano: It is one of the restaurants of Las Brisas Club Resort Hotel and Villages. Wide buffet offer scattered all over the saloon. Dinners seem to be in a market place choosing dishes.

El Ancla

Cayo Bariay, Rafel Freyre.
Holguín

Canalcubano: Small and popular place where to have a snack close to the beach. Its menu is the same as elsewhere: mainly fish and sea-food. Nevertheless its stable quality, without up and downs, moderate prices, good service and interesting offer of beverages, including cocktails and drinks, maintain its success.

La Arcada

Carabela

Las Carabelas de Colón

La Cascada

Colón

Conuco de Mongo Viña

Galileo

La Niña

La Pinta

II Ponticello

Cayo Naranjo

Bello Mar

La Concha

Restaurante El Faro

Plaza del Fuerte # s/n
Gibara

Canalcubano: Situated in the Small Morro Castle where the Fernando VII's cannon battery lies.Gibara Bay entrance was protected by this battery; the best fortress in the north oriental part of Cuba. Silla de Gibara can be seen from there, just the way Colón described in his first trip's diary.

La Melba

Paladar La Mina

Joaquín Agüero #13
Gibara
Tel: 34493

Canalcubano: Gibara is one of the most pisturesque villages in Cuba and it is worth visiting, there it is located this establishment, where the food is good and its managers, family Graña, are very attentive. The meals are made up of local and tasteful products. Ask for a table in the terrace overlooking the sea.