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Hello friends of @CinamunCupCoffé, your initiatives are pure thought, it is inevitable not to join the #TheCoffeeShopPrompt proposal, in week 105. I had thought about talking about another topic, but I always get caught up in the networks of coffee and the emotions that this drink unleashes. We always like to say what we like about places and perhaps to stop mentioning what we don't like because there is no progress in this regard.
Whenever I make a date with my friends, I suggest Café Real Dos Gardenias, located in the center of the city, Lorenzo Ortiz Street, on the Boulevard. There I have met several times with my friends and especially with my friend the actor Ivo Dovale, a lover of this place.
Among the details that I like is the fact that it is one of the only places in the city where you can have breakfast. It seems important to me because the culinary and restaurant tradition on the island does not include breakfast services and it is one of my favorite moments of the day in which it is shared with the best vibes of the day that begins.
Another detail that I like about Café Real Dos Gardenias is its location in a place close to all the cultural centers. From there it only takes two or three minutes to arrive on time for a gathering, a concert or the museum. It is very easy to get to the place although its architecture and identification is very discreet.
The human factor is important in the quality of services. The employees at Café Real Dos Gardenias are friendly and manage to establish a certain friendship with their customers, an aspect that permeates the desire to meet up with friends again under the pretext of some croquettes, a hamburger and always coffee.
But as the tradition of service in establishments, restaurants and cafes in Cuba stated, it is something that does not reach the desired refinement. Even their employees are not able to understand the details for an exquisite service.
I don't like cold coffee, the waiter must assume the rules of the service. Some prefer cold coffee, others warm, others hot and it is part of the information that they must write down at the time of ordering. Once they serve the coffee or cappuccino below the desired temperature or delay in offering it; Trying to please means that the tax travels a long way back, exposed to external agents, that it is put in a micro slingshot and returned after being out of your sight for a few minutes. Therefore it is preferable to consume it cold.
I would like a more pleasant temperature in the Café Real Dos Gardenias. Once the capacities of the small establishment are occupied, the atmosphere becomes rarefied. Bodies generate heat and the environment becomes dense. Climate equipment is not enough; aggravated by the vapors from the electric machines with which the coffees are made, which I assume do not exist steam extractors.
And lastly, this being a place whose name comes from Isolina Carrillo's homonymous bolero Dos Gardenias, because no music is heard there.
I don't remember hearing any proposals, much less boleros. I wish you could share a breakfast in this space while listening to this and other interpretations.
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This post has been written and documented by me, it does not contain AI. The photos used are my property
