Catering for your Family Parties or Business Meeting

As we can see now the holidays approaching, we are all getting in the mood for big entertaining. Relief yourself from the stress of cooking and call us to order. We can customize your order as you wish. New offers added for catering are:

• Roasted Pork, cut in pieces and without bones for easy serving: $12.00 per pound. If your guests love pork, we recommend you order a pound for every 2 guests.
• Cuban croquettes made with ham, chicken, seafood or vegetarian, you pick the flavour: 1 for $0.85
• Fried Stuffed potatos: 'Papas rellenas' combine the great taste of mashed potatoes with a succulent meat filling: $3.00 each

New additions to the Menu

1. Palomilla Steak for $13.99: Thin-sliced top sirloin steak marinated overnight on Cuban style adobo, topped with caramelized onions. Served with rice and beans and sweet plantains or cassava. 
2. Calamari Stew for $10.99: Calamari or squid stew is one of the most flavoursome dishes you will ever experience. Prepared in tomato sauce with onions, garlic and red wine. Served generally with white rice and plantain.
3. Yellow Rice and Chicken (Arroz con pollo a la chorrera) for $11.99: Just prepared on Wednesday or by order. Very tender rice cooked in chicken broth with red peppers, petit pois and other secret ingredients we are not allow to disclose....and chicken of course. Just call for this one...

Our "Bestseller" so far is dish No.1.

Materva and Jupiña - cuban soft drinks

Materva and Jupiña are traditional Cuban soft drinks.

Materva is made from yerba mate, a tea popular in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Materva is very popular among Cubans and other Hispanics in the United States.

The Materva Soft Drink Company was founded in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1920. It was produced and sold in Cuba until 1960, when the Cuban Revolution brought about the nationalization of all private industry. The rights to the drink were bought out by the competing Cawy Bottling Company of Miami in 1965. In 2002, Materva was given the "Best Local Soft Drink" award by the Miami New Times.

Fresh Summer Pizzas

 Offer from May 21, 2011
Bacon and Egg Pizza

Bacon and eggs combined with black pepper and nutmeg, covered with rich mozzarella cheese and fresh parsley

M $12.99   L $14.99

Summer Grill Vegetarian Pizza

Sundried tomatoes, grilled eggplants, red peppers and toasted pine nuts over tomato sauce and parmesan parsley pesto

M $11.99   L $13.99

Pulled Pork Pizza

BBQ sauce on slow roasted pulled pork, caramelized onions and rich mozzarella cheese

M $11.99   L $13.99

Finally we have a sign

Our great appreciation to Gustavo Quintini and his company. Beautiful job, Gustavo! We are looking forward to seeing this business grow. As for everything there is always a before and after. Definetely this is a wonderful after shot.

Cafe Havana - In pictures

Now you can have an idea of the space. We got new chairs and some of the pictures of Havana are finally on our feature wall: la Plaza de la Catedral, el Malecon y el Castillo del Morro. Scroll down and see.
We have so many other plans to make the interior more appealing, just keep on coming and you will see the transformation....

Cafe Havana - Work in Progress

Finally our menu is posted here. Scroll down and you will see it below.

The cafe image is still work in progress. We don't even have menu boards not to talk about the signage outside. We are working to get all of these ready very soon, with the help of Gustavo Quintini and Yails. However the food is getting us there. I can tell you that the 'Pan con Lechon' sandwich is a favourite already and the Pizza Habanera has been also very successful among Latinos and Canadians alike.

Thank you

Our families are really grateful to God for putting on our way so many wonderful people to help us throughout this journey. We couldn't call them less than dear friends. 

We want to thank Lilian Gutierrez, our real estate agent and our lawyer M. Malicki and his terrific assistant Ann for being there for us with their experience and words of wisdom. 

Thank you to all our friends: Nataly and Fernando, Yails and Elizabet in Oakville; Annabel, Vilma and Sonia in Miami; Tammy, Rayssa, Olga (Mexico), Anibal (Peru), Jose Luis (Venezuela)...Yury(Colombia), thank you for spreading the word.

To the Cuban and Venezuelan community in Oakville, you are our heartbeat.

To our family, friends and neighbours, thank you.

 

The Birth of a Dream

We started dreaming about Cafe Havana or I should say about a Cuban restaurant in Toronto, when my sister Dalia came with her family to Canada. It was just a dream, when we started searching online, gathering information and the ideas started flowing. Three years later and a dozen places designed on our minds, we found a place we couldn't let go: the price was good and the location was what we were looking for. Cafe Havana was finally here and it was born under a snow storm on February 2, 2011.