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AP: "After years spent working in dreary state-run restaurants and hush-hush culinary speakeasies, restaurateurs and chefs are operating under a set of new, less exacting rules that allow their talents freer reign. There are brand new places such as La Moneda Cubana, and splashy reopenings such as La Guarida, made famous by the Oscar-nominated 1993 movie "Strawberry and Chocolate.
"This was long overdue," said Jose Antonio Figueroa, 39, a partner in Cafe Laurent. "This is a chance to achieve what we always wanted."
" Since then 60 to 100 restaurants have been launched in Havana, including new, reopened and clandestine ones that went legit."
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One of my fondest memories of staying in my casa in el centro of La Habana during 1996-98...centers around a marvelous near-by illegal paladar that served-up big portions of lobster tail in garlic sauce...family-style...for only about $10 usd. Unbelievable!...especially since selling lobster was highly illegal at that time.
