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24.04.2024 - 06:45 / lonelyplanet.com / Ernest Hemingway / Jack Kerouac
From Paris to Buenos Aires, you’ll want to settle in and raise a glass at these famous literary bars, notebook at the ready.
It’s true: saloons, pubs, clubs and other welcome watering holes tend to be magnets for writers. Perhaps these necessarily solo practitioners seek intellectual and social stimulation in the warm environs of a bar. Perhaps they’re there to observe, seeking material for their next great novel or essay. Perhaps they...just need a drink.
Around the world, a few long-standing establishments have drawn generations of writers – and have counted some of the most esteemed literary figures in history as regulars. Here are 10 famous literary bars at which you’ll want to settle in and raise a glass, notebook at the ready.
In continuous business for some two centuries, El Floridita is best known as a favorite haunt of famous Havana resident Ernest Hemingway. This bar in Cuba’s capital was most famous for its daiquiris; Hemingway, being a (famously thirsty) cocktail connoisseur, requested his with no sugar and double the rum. This became known as the Papa Doble – and is now El Floridita’s signature cocktail. Papa himself is memorialized as a life-sized statue at the bar. Throw back a couple of those daiquiris and you might actually believe that he is still there holding court with other members of his crew, such as Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper.
In San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Vesuvio Café was a popular hangout for members of the Beat Generatio – including writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg and Neal Cassady – and in is conveniently located next door to the legendary City Lights Books, which was opened by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953. Stroll through the pedestrian-only alley next to the welcoming bar and admire the colorful murals with poetry and quotes from literature. Then, channel your inner beatnik: order a Bohemian Coffee, climb the stairs to the second floor, and claim a seat that overlooks the bar below. This is where history was made. Dig it?
Café Tortoni drips with the faded glamor and stylish melancholy that pervades Buenos Aires. It’s perhaps the most famous of the city’s bares notables, a group of beautiful old cafes where sandwiches de miga (crustless sandwiches) and facturas (pastries) are served with considerable pomp by bow-tied waiters. Leading lights of Argentine arts and letters were known to congregate at Tortoni, including story-story master Jorge Luis Borges, poet Alfonsina Storni and great composer of the tango Carlos Gardel, who held court at a table by the front window. Today, the creative spirit lives on in a downstairs space where poetry readings, jazz jam sessions and tango performances regularly take place.
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