The advent of Prohibition in the United States spurred its original owner, Jose Abeal Otero, to change the emphasis from food service to liquor service when American tourists would visit Havana for the nightlife, the gambling and the alcohol they could not obtain back home. The bar, in its heyday, can be seen in the movie Our Man in Havana starring Alec Guinness as it is the bar in which the character (Jim Wormold) is attempted to be recruited into the secret service. The building is a neo-classical 3 story masonry building located on the corner of Animas and Zulueta streets in Havana Vieja ( Old Havana) on the same block as the Plaza Hotel.
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