Cuba is not known for the food. Most places that we have eaten has been pretty bland, but Tabasco Sauce is all over the place and so it isn’t too bad. There are some places where the food is awesome though. A shout out to Ramiro in Cienfuegos for the spread they put on for us a couple of nights ago. The menu was fish, lobster, prawns, chicken, rice, beans, yams, potatoes and a salad – but Ramiro and his wife knew how to add flavour to everything. We couldn’t finish it all and they were originally going to add some pork for dessert, but thankfully the Turks among us said no pork and we had flan (Cuban for crème caramel) instead. Much easier to put flan into the dessert stomach than a pig.
The seafood here is plentiful. A full seafood dinner can cost as little as a couple of dollars outside of Havana (heaps more expensive and much less taste) or up to $20 in real touristy areas. Every menu has lobster and prawns on it. If you want something else, it will cost heaps more. E.g Grandpa’s Pork
I went the cheap option and chose the $5 lobster…
Lobster seems to be an every second day affair here. I’ve eaten so much of it in Cuba that it looks like I am slowly turning into one.
