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Talk of the town: The city’s best jazz club, this place has been graced by such greats as George Benson and Cucho Valdes.

Word the the wise: Arrive early if you want to get a table close to the stage.

This iconic jazz club may be bizarrely modelled on an old English pub, but there's no English pub that you enter through a red telephone booth before descending into the subterranean depths, and none which has a line-up of music quite like this.

With a only a 120-person capacity, it feels every bit as smoky, dark and intimate as you would want it to be, and really comes alive during Havana International Jazz Festival. Jazz is beloved by Habaneros of all ages, and you’ll find just as many young Cubans as old crooners here, all tapping along to some freestyle improv.