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The Bar Program · Est. 2009

Thirty-eight original drinks,
one house signature,
and a Havana night that
lingers well past last call.

Built from aged Cuban rum, hand-pressed tropicals, and nine years of a resident timba orchestra on the next stage. The cocktail program at Timba Social Club has earned "Best Cocktail Program" at the Caribbean Hospitality Awards in 2022 and 2024 — and the menu was shaped by Yaima Rodríguez, named Bartender of the Year by the Cuban Bartenders Guild in 2023.

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Yaima Rodríguez, head bartender at Timba Social Club, finishing a coupe cocktail at the bar.
Yaima Rodríguez · Head bartender · 2023 Cuban Bartenders Guild, Bartender of the Year
38 original cocktails · 2× Caribbean Hospitality Awards · 47,000+ drinks served annually · 12 min average reservation confirmation

The House Signature

Chancleta — order one before the band warms up.

Nine months of tasting trials went into our house signature: aged Havana Club, pressed guava, cassia bark, lime oil, and a single saline drop. Stirred for forty turns and served up, no garnish other than the glass's own chill. It has outsold every other drink on the menu for three consecutive years — the one cocktail to remember when you arrive.

Base
Aged Cuban rum (7-year)
Modifiers
Pressed guava, cassia bark, lime oil
Technique
Stirred 40 turns · served up · frosted coupe
Born
Spring 2017, on the bar at Calle O'Reilly
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The Chancleta, the house signature coupe cocktail at Timba Social Club.

The Full Program

Browse thirty-eight originals, four ways.

Every cocktail on our list is built behind the same mahogany bar — rum-forward classics alongside agave builds, tropical fruit constructions, and a quietly serious zero-proof column. Pick a column that fits the night you're planning.

I

Aged Rum

14 cocktails

  • Chancletahouse signature · aged rum, guava, cassia
  • Sol de San Pedro7-yr rum, apricot, smoked honey
  • Mendoza Old Fashioned15-yr rum, pandero bitter, demerara
  • Habana Vieja Negroniaged rum, coffee vermouth, Campari
  • Cienfuegos12-yr rum, sherry, allspice
  • + 9 morerotating with the season

II

Agave

11 cocktails

  • Callejón de Maderareposado, charred pineapple, lime
  • Marejadamezcal, grapefruit, saline agave
  • Tropic of Capricornañejo, banana liqueur, cocoa
  • Palo Cortemezcal, palo cortado, bitters
  • Nopal Sourblanco, cactus pear, egg white
  • + 6 morerotating with the season

III

Tropical

9 cocktails

  • Atardecer en el Malecónwhite rum, mango, passionfruit, lime
  • Guásimarum, guava, allspice, citrus
  • Mamey Swizzlerum, mamey, falernum, mint
  • Piña y Salrum, grilled pineapple, sea salt
  • Papaya Fitzrum, papaya, lime, demerara
  • + 4 morerotating with the season

IV

Non-Alcoholic

4 zero-proof

  • Verde Luminosocucumber, basil, verjus, tonic
  • Café Callejerocold-brew coffee, cane, oat
  • Mango Rubiomango, ginger, lime, chili salt
  • Hibisco en Llamashibiscus, cinnamon, citrus

The 38-drink menu rotates twice a year. Off-menu builds are welcomed at the bar — tell the bartender what you had for dinner, what you usually drink at home, and what tempo the orchestra is playing.

A program with a person behind it

"Cuban rum is a generous ingredient — it forgives almost anything. So our job at the bar isn't to hide it. It's to set a tempo that matches the orchestra: bold, sometimes sweet, never dull, and always finished before the last note fades. Thirty-eight originals isn't a wish list. It's a working library built by trial — every drink on this menu has been tasted forty times before it reaches the guest."

Yaima Rodríguez Head Bartender, Timba Social Club · 2023 Cuban Bartenders Guild, Bartender of the Year
  • 2024Caribbean Hospitality Awards — Best Cocktail Program
  • 2023Yaima Rodríguez — Bartender of the Year, Cuban Bartenders Guild
  • 2022Caribbean Hospitality Awards — Best Cocktail Program

Behind the Bar

Citrus, cane, ice, and the hands that shake them.

A working library of ninety-one infusions, twelve syrups, and a fresh-press station that runs from the moment the doors open. This is what the cocktail program looks like eight nights a week.

A bartender mid-shake at the Timba Social Club bar.
The shake — eight years of repetition, one finished drink.
A citrus press at the bar, mid-squeeze on a fresh lime.
Pressed to order — every lime, every night.
A garnish station with dehydrated citrus, cassia bark, herbs and spices.
Ninety-one infusions. Twelve syrups. One shelf.
The back bar spirits wall at Timba Social Club, lined with rum, agave, and liqueur bottles.
The spirits wall — what thirty-eight originals rest on.

Tonight, At The Bar

Cocktails are best experienced at the bar.

Thirty-eight originals, eleven bartenders shaking at once, and a corner of the room where Los Hermanos Mendoza are usually visible from the barstools. Reservations are confirmed within an average of twelve minutes during business hours — fastest of any venue in Havana.

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