Cienfuegos Province

Cienfuegos City

1860
Calle 31 esquina a 54
Cienfuegos
Tel: (432) 451020

Canalcubano: This elegant restaurant belonging to Hotel La Unión, presents both Cuban and international cuisine. An attractive place, though the service is not always the best.

La Aguada
Autopista Nacional Km 172
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 6-2136

Description: In a typical rural palm-frond-roofed wooden ranch you can enjoy the different dishes from the national cuisine.

El Benny
Ave 54 # 2709
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-1105

Description: International food restaurant livened up with taped or live music themes of the famous Cuban singer Benny Moré.

Casa Caribeña
Calle 35, e/. 18 y 20,
Punta Gorda
Cienfuegos
Tel: (432) 557016

Canalcubano: It is a typical wooden house of Cienfuegos seashore. It is next to the bay pier. They offer a variety of dishes and popular music in the gardens at night.

La Casa del Pescador
Punta La Milpa
Ciefuegos
Tel: (432) 8160

Canalcubano: It is near Pasacaballos Hotel. The Restaurant lies next to the entrance bay canal. An ideal place to wait for lunch. They serve exquisite roast fish. A baked fish with potatoes, sweat potato, onion and pepper was the last sin we committed.

Castillo de Jagua
Fortaleza del Castillo de Jagua
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-6402

Description: In Castillo de Jagua Fortress, which is considered the 3ª important fortress of the country and which was declared National Monument. Choice of dishes from the world’s cuisine and “La Dama Azul” (The Blue Lady) paella as the main course. It also offers cocktail, drink, and juice service, livened up with live music and special nights with the production of the Blue Lady's legend.

El Cochinito
Cocina criolla
Cienfuegos

Covadonga
Calle 37 e/ 0 y 1ra
Punta Gorda
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 516949

Canalcubano: "This fantastic paellas done by doña María..." remember some old clients. It was María Covadonga Lano who in 1940 introduced the famous paella from the Spanish city Valencia in this place, making it famous all over Cuba. Even Fidel Castro and his “barbudos” (bearded comrades) took their time in Cienfuegos, to have lunch here the 7th of January 1959, just before entering Havana. The quality is still there so even if there are other dishes in its menu now, don’t hesitate to try this paella which ended up being a part of the city with other restaurants fighting for its supremacy.

Cueva del Camarón
Pescados y Mariscos
37 e/ 0 y 1ra, Punta Gorda,
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-1128

Description: The emphasis is on prawns, wich are served as fresh as possible and cooked in a number of different ways.

Frommers: While nowhere near as elaborate as the Palacio del Valle, this popular restaurant is also housed in a beautifully restored old mansion. Ornate Moorish-style tiled wainscoting greets you in the entryway, and works its way around the first floor and up the stairway. The high arched interior doorways feature intricate woodcarvings. Most of the seating and the joint's popular bar are located on an open-air patio right on the water, although there's a separate rooftop terrace that serves as a second bar, where you can also dine with an elevated view of the harbor. Stick with the seafood here. They've got fresh fish, shrimp, and lobster prepared however you like it, and they even have a decent selection of reasonably priced imported wines.

Canalcubano: It is the Cienfuegos Capital of the popular seafaring paella for many people. The paella is served in clay pot where you can find ‘anything’. Your increasing appetite will clear the pot bottom. Towners eat it with cold beer. It is a good recommendation.

La Isabela
Carretera a Rancho Luna Km 1
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-7606

Description: Located on the highway toward Rancho Luna, 3 kms. (about 2 miles) from downtown. It offers typical Cuban food, such as roast pork, congrí. Livened up by Cuban countryside dance and music, it includes entertainment, cock fights and trained animal shows.

Palacio de Valle
Calle 37 E/ 0 y 2
Punta Gorda
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-3021 - 55-3025

Description: This restaurant, in the dazzling setting of the most famous building in town, features good quality fish and seafood, including lobster. The bar on the terrace has splendid view of the bay. A pianist often plays

Frommers: The food's not nearly as spectacular as the setting, but the luxurious and ornate surroundings just about make up for it. Music and entertainment in the main dining room is provided by the charismatic María del Carmen Iznaga Guillén, niece of the great Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. The cuisine here is uninspired, but certainly acceptable. This place is the de rigueur stop in town and there's a cattle-car feel to the whole operation. My favorite draw here is the rooftop bar, with its fabulous views over the harbor.

Parrillada Te Quedarás
Calle 54 e/ 29 y 31. Boulevard.
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 551105

Description: Excelent roated meat at a Creole style.

El Palatino
Calle 54 No. 2514 esq. a 27, Parque José Martí.
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 55-1244

Description: In a joyful environment you will delight in the delicacies of the house.

Canalcubano: It is the oldest building that surrounds Martí Park.The heart of the Historical Trinitarian Center. Visitors may enjoy the direct contact with towners in the portals, trinitarian variant of the Parisian Café. Nice town for visitors to stroll.

Pizza Nova
31 #5418, e/. 54 y 56,
Cienfuegos
Tel: (53 432) 552020

Description: Enjoy the most representative dishes of the Italian cuisine.

Canalcubano: Open in 2001, this is other of the places of the successful firm Pizza Nova. This is located opposite Hotel Unión, a minute walk from the boulevard. Its quality is correct and has an excellent selection of olive oil -with laurel, garlic or chili-. Prices are acceptable and the service is good.

El Polinesio
29, e/. 54 y 56
Cienfuegos
Tel: (432) 5723

Canalcubano: We consider it quite amazing to find different Restaurants which, since decades, offer Polynesian food in different Cuban cities. The best known is the one in Cienfuegos. Its exotic decoration is creating a huge contrast with the exteriors of the building itself. As for the kitchen, we think that its level is quite fine and in harmony with the price list.

La Verja
Cocina criolla
54 #3306
Cienfuegos

Canalcubano: In the boulevard of Cienfuegos, it is located this restaurant, in an old big house, that offers simple Cuban meals. Prices are very very cheap.

Yaima
Cocina internacional
Hotel Rancho Luna
Cienfuegos