Guantanamera: Formerly Azucar, Guantanamera is Ricky Ricardo’s version of Disneyland: palm trees, Havana street scene murals, rattan ceiling fans, and mambo music. There’s even a cigar maker sitting at a sidewalk table outside, offering hand-rolled stogies to patrons on their way out. The menu would make Gloria Estefan proud—fried cassava sticks, shrimp-stuffed plantains in Cuban sauce, suckling pig, and, of course, the Cuban sandwich. Ten flavored mojitos, homemade sangrias, and cocktails like the Hemingway (dark rum, grapefruit juice, and lime) or the Mentira, made for women only (Liquor 43, Frangelico, and chocolate chip liquor), keep the bar three-deep for most of the night. While you can’t see the acts from there, you can certainly hear them. Nightly rumba and mambo bands are lively and loud, which is the way the conga-loving crowd wants it.
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