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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 cafes
Best cafes in Havana
The 10 most notable cafes in Havana, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cafe Arcangel
57 Concordia
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.534, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Café El Escorial
Mercaderes, 317 esquina Muralla
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.076, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Neder Café
Calle O No. 252 e/ Ave 25 y Ave 27 Vedado
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.989, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Cuba Libro
Calle 19
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.971, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Palachinka Crepe Cafe
entre 27 y 29, Vedado, Calle F
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.803, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
GalyCafé
San José entre Águila y Galiano
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.750, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Lola Café
Ave 31 #5409 entre 54 y 56. Playa
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.633, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Café Hoy como Ayer
Calle 12 #554 entre 23 y 25
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.567, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Todo Pizzas
Avenida 26
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.531, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
La Rueda
entre y N, Línea
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.145, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).