This Place Sucks!!!
- April 6, 2008
- Rated 1 of 5 by
Babanana from canoga park, California
y friend wanted to go to eat cuban so on our regular friday night out we chose El Floridita, she said it was good so I said okay. So we drive from the Valley to Hollywood which with the traffic took us almost 40mins to get there. We had reservations and the place wasn't so full but they seated us by the kitchen which was smelling like Pine-Sol and you could smell it from where we were seating. Ugh! The place was so small and had a tiny dance floor and it looked more like a small dressed up function room. It wasn't what I expected!Anyway so we started ordering and I got the half chicken dish and my had the beef and my other friend got paella. When the food came they served us some beans over rice. My chicken was nothing out of the ordinary, infact it even tasted like the chicken you get in Costco for $5 as opposed to them charging me $25 for!!!! And my friend's beef was the same--it wasn't that great and it even had those fat pieces in it. Gross! That cost about $25 too. We also tasted the chicken soup which wasn't a big deal either and it was served in this small soup bowl and charged us $6 for it. Water was $4 which came in those really small water bottles. All in all our bill came to $75! It was a total rip off! We eat out often and wouldn't mind paying for really good food but this one, it was worth more like $20! This place sucked and won't be back here!
El Floridita
- November 13, 2000
- Rated 3 of 5 by
Joel from Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
Downtown Havana is also the place to be if you are keen on cocktails. No one should miss the great writer's favorite bars in the old quarters. Hemingway always went to the Bodeguita del Medio (Empedrado e/ San Ignacio y Mercaderes) to drink his usual tripple, a mojito, and then he usually went straight to El Floridita (Monserrate esq. Obispo) to taste the excellent daiquiris served there, shaken not stirred. The Bodeguita del Medio is made famous by Hemingway. This immensely popular classic was the hangout for Havana's bohemian crowd in the 1940s. The walls of this usually overcrowded bar are covered in autographs and scribbled messages and therefore some of the old spirit has retained.
From journal Hola la Habana!