A Trip to Havana in Four Days

Friday, March 16, 2007

Day 2: First Breakfast in Havana

We started off our second day in Havana with a buffet breakfast at the hotel which was included in the cost of our stay. The buffet included eggs made up any way you wanted, bacon as well as the usual North American type things you'd expect to find for breakfast. They also included a few Cuban/Spanish type foods including chorizos (pronounced chor-ee-thos) which are a type of spicy pepperoni-like sausage.

There were also a type of breaded, deep fried mashed potato that I'm not sure what the name was. They even had some sweet desserts, like cakes that looked like Nanaimo bars but just had regular cake as a filling; or rather, to quote Craig they were "Nanaimo bars without the Nanaimo", which doesn't make any sense but there you have it.

The atmosphere in the restaurant was quite nice, very bright and not too crowded, the waiters were very polite and proper as was the standard in most restaurants we went to in Havana. The main waiter was dressed in a tuxedo while the others dressed in a sort of colourful (but muted) vest, white shirt and black pants.

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