SLP, Mexico.- For each celebration, the cuban hotelsrestaurants, bars offer luxurious dinners that few citizens will be able to afford with their minimum salary of 2,100 CUP.
This year, the menus range from 2,900 pesos to offers that reach up to seven minimum wages.
Cocktails welcomestarters, broths, main course, dessert, music are offered by regime hotels, state restaurants and even the private bar of Sandro Castro, the grandson of the late dictator.
Among the offers Some of the Palmares chain restaurants stand out in Camagüey.
The “Campana de Toledo” restaurant advertises for 2,900 per person, starters, garnish and as a main course grilled pork, grilled turkey, grilled natural pork loin or grilled beef fillet and dessert.
The Habana Libre hotel promotes more expensive dinners that will only be for a few: for adults, they will have to pay about 12,000 CUP.
The menu, which will cost almost six minimum wages per person, will be composed of starters, a salad composed of vegetables and seafood with red fruit vinaigrette, among others.
The main course will be beef tenderloin with gorgonzola mousse, cranberry sauce, sun-dried tomato risotto and vegetables. For dessert, cheesecake with wild strawberry sauce and chocolate canes, as well as nougat.
The state restaurant Café del Oriente, in Havanaalso has a dinner to say goodbye to 2024 at a high cost: 15,000.
The restaurant of the CIMEX chain, controlled by the military of the regime, announced on the website Facebook “Historic Center Restaurants” the offer.
Dinner has starters such as a welcome cocktail with the traditional Cuba Libre, followed by a “book of various breads and palitroques” and appetizers.
The main dish on the menu includes a beef tenderloin with mushroom sauce, roast pork slices, fried pork dough, Maitre Hotel lobster, grilled fish fillet, products that are not very accessible to most Cubans.
Furthermore, the controversial Bar EFE, belonging to Sandro Castro, Fidel’s grandsonis also preparing a farewell to 2024 “in style.”
The dictator’s grandson will make a toast with champagne, nougat, foods that can only be obtained in stores in MLC or in MSMEs.
Who will be able to celebrate on these dates?
He calculation carried out by the independent organization Food Monitor Program (FMP) showed that for a family of four people, about 8,200 Cuban pesos are needed, a little less than two average salaries, to buy pork, rice, beans, salad and ingredients to make a dessert.
The analysis Based on the markets reviewed between Havana and Cienfuegos, they estimated that for a Christmas or New Year’s Eve dinner you would have to pay 300 CUP for a pound of rice; 500 for one of beans; 50 pesos for a head of garlic; 600, for a bunch of onions; 500 for a pound of tomatoes. For a bunch of lettuce, 200 pesos would be required and 600 for a pound of oil. For a pound of pork you would need at least 1,000 pesos and for a hand of donkey banana, 200.
The cost increases if you add some dessert at dinner, since a nougat costs 700 pesos; a fruit bomb, 400 and each egg for a flan recipe costs 100 pesos; a pound of powdered milk, 900 CUP and a pound of white sugar, 350. To toast you would have to pay 1,800 CUP for a bottle of red wine or cider.
“In perspective: 800,000 retirees, depending on a minimum pension of $1,528 pesos, can buy (for an entire month) just one pound of two or three of the aforementioned products,” the site revealed.
