CityScapes – Havana – Market Intel

The on-premise channel in Cuba has something of a stop-start history. Dating back to the revolution in 1959, the bar scene has blossomed in bursts, before being forced to recede markedly.For a good few years immediately after the revolution, there were hardly any bars to speak of in Havana. Within ten years, however, many in the capital had reopened, this time under government ownership. Inextricably linked to the tourist trade, Havana’s bars benefited from Russian visitors for the next 20 or so years, offsetting the absence of US tourists thanks to the latter’s embargo, which came into ef