Dinner and a movie set

It's the ultimate movie tie-in: When in Havana, you're invited for dinner in the fourth-floor apartment where fictional gay hero Diego argued politics with hetero Communist David in the 1994 Cuban film Strawberry & Chocolate. The movie location now houses a private restaurant named La Guarida (the hideaway), decorated to resemble Diego's kitschy movie-memorabilia-filled home.

In a review in the U.K.'s Guardian in October, travel writer Gavin McOwan described how "chandeliers, an old film projector, antique furniture, and the original big blue fridge from the film (Diego would talk to it) compete for space" while diners in the flat's four dining rooms enjoy "some of the best seafood in Havana." Dessert is homemade ice cream: "The most popular flavors, it goes without saying, are strawberry and chocolate."

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