Salsa Dance At Café Havana

Café Havana is the place to be if you like listening or dancing to salsa music. Even if you’ve never danced it in your life, it’s still worth heading to the city’s cultural and party center, Getsemani, to try out this Cuban-style bar.

Café Havana draws a mixed crowd of locals and expats and welcomes talented live salsa bands who keep the crowd entertained until the early hours. Even if you’ve two left feet, head on down for some perfectly mixed cocktails, enjoy the music and watch others take to the dance floor.

Located on the bustling corner of main drag Media Luna, Cafe Havana was a game-changer for the previously no-go zone of Getsemani. With its opening and triumphant success, finally there was a reason for the well-heeled sorts from the higher classes in Colombia to break through the Old Town/Bocagrande bubble and experience things on the grittier side of the track.

​After surviving the line and paying your cover-charge (don’t begrudge it, there’s a bunch of world-class musicians it goes to support), you’ll enter a world of Old Havana. Cuban flags cling to the ceiling, salsa greats smile from black and white frames, and amber lights warm the ambiance just as effectively as those potent mojitos warm the patrons.