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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Ernest Hemingway stands in El Floridita at the bar


During his stay in Hotel Ambos Mundos Ernest Hemingway came often drink a Daiquiri cocktail at El Floridita

Sometimes he drank along with Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, John Wayne
or Ava Gardner

A short walk from his hotel Ambos Mundos was the bar El Floridita in the shopping street Calle Obispo 557


Hemingway was not the only famous customer in this bar

For many generations Cuban and foreign intellectuals and artists were also like to drink their cocktail here




Little has changed since that time to the Regency-style bar

It still has the atmosphere of the fifties and the bartenders still wear their red coats and make the famous cocktails

Besides cocktails El Floridita is also known for its (expensive) seafood


Most people who come to visit the bar drink a daiquiri and like to taste a bit of the atmosphere left by "Papa" Hemingway as the Cubans called him

Hemingway was a connoisseur of cocktails and sat at the bar to see how the cocktails were made

Hemingway has had a significant impact on this bar


Therefore, there is a statue erected in his honor in his favorite chair at the bar and there are pictures of him on the wall

At 5  o'clock in the afternoon the bar is usually filled with people who wants  together with Hemingway on the photo

There`s every day a delicious Cuban band and it`s very cozy to stay here


The bar is known as "La Cuna del daiquiri" or "The cradle of the daiquiri"

"The bartender Constantino Ribalaigura Vert is credited with inventing the frozen daiquiri in the early thirties

The bar was a school of highly trained bartenders

El Floridita is specialized in the preparation of cocktails with
fresh juices and rum



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