Havana by the Frame

Story: Paul Clarke

Photo: Photos by Caleb Krivoshey

November 01, 2016

floridita daiquiri — A life-size statue of Ernest Hemingway oversees the bar at El Floridita.

The café Cubano is intensely dark, very strong and heartbreakingly sweet.

havana photos — The newer Havana Club facility in San José focuses on rums that make up older blended expressions.

Yusuan Pacheco mixes a Mojito at El Del Frente.

El Cocinero is a modern restaurant and bar that serves drinks like Spanish-style Gin & Tonics.

When we asked photographer Caleb Krivoshey to capture Havana drinking culture, he hit the ground running. Currently working on a photo series inspired by the vintage allure of Havana’s classic taxicabs, Krivoshey has traveled to Cuba on assignments for the past six years, and he’s a big fan of the city’s cocktail scene. “Lately, Havana has changed a lot, with the new possibility of opening private businesses, such as bars, and thus, many new places for cocktail-drinking have flourished,” he says. “The Imbibe feature was an opportunity to discover these new places, such as O’Reilly, El Del Frente, El Cocinero and Azucar, but also to drink and savor my favorites—El Floridita, La Guarida, Al Littoral, La Bodeguida del Medio—as well as to ramble in Old Havana to discover more hidden bars.”

Scroll through the gallery above to check out some of our favorite shots from Havana.

Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke is Imbibe's Executive Editor and the author of The Cocktail Chronicles: Navigating the Cocktail Renaissance With Jigger, Shaker & Glass, released in July of 2015. He believes in the importance of a diverse liquid diet.