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Havana Club Bar & Grill, McAllen Night Life, Restaurant, Bar, Club, Salsa

Havana Club Bar & Grill, McAllen Night Life, Restaurant, Bar, Club, Salsa

Welcome to Havana Club

McAllen’s home for live music and dancing

Complimented by delicious food and drink

The Hottest Music, Dancing, & Dining!

About Us

“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”

Vicki Baum

Latin Bar & Grill

Havana Bar and Grill has offered McAllen a unique experience for years, inspired by the sights, sounds, and flavors of Latin America. We are a full-service restaurant that features live music, dancing, award-winning cocktails, salsa classes, and some of the Valley’s most unique events.

• Full-service dine-in restaurant open until midnight
• Live music
• Voted Best Margarita in the Valley — Mango Chamoy Margarita
• Salsa, merengue, and bachata concerts by world-renowned artists
• Dance classes with professional instructors in salsa, bachata, and kizomba
• Fundraisers and charity events
• Comedy nights
• Boxing and UFC watch parties
• Ample onsite, lighted parking
• Book our private room with your very own bar and TV projectors!

Is this your birthday month?

How Would You Like a $500 Exclusive Birthday Party Package That Includes Free Food for You and Up to 50 Friends?

Have you ever wanted to plan a Birthday Party with all your friends but thought it would be too expensive to provide for everyone or felt like you didn’t have the right place with the right atmosphere? Here’s the thing. ..we can provide all the food, space, and entertainment for you…At NO Cost Out of Your Pocket!!

What Does This Include?

We will provide Free Food for You and 20-50 of Your Guests (21 and older). There is No Catch. There are no hidden fees. Can you imagine what would you pay for a package like this anywhere else? Plus you benefit from our club’s live music! You get this absolutely FREE. All you have to do is come ready to party!

How Do I Sign Up?

Every month we give away a limited number of birthday party packages on our Facebook page. So, if you haven’t already, like us on Facebook and look for the announcement to go out (usually around the last week of every month). Once you see it, send us a message on Facebook to reserve your spot, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible to schedule a date that works for you.

Events

Check out our blog or our Facebook page to learn about our upcoming concerts and special events.

Drop by on Thursdays for special events like the “Bailando en Havana” TV competition, Noche de Reggaeton, Comedy Nights, and more. Live bands play salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia and more on other nights. $5 cover before 9, $10 after. No cover if you have dinner with us!

Birthday coming up? Check out our birthday special!

Wednesdays

Mojito Night

• No cover
• Half-priced mojitos and other drink specials
• Midnight Band live until 2 am

Thursdays

Special Event Night

• Visit our blog or our Facebook page to learn more

Fridays

Ladies Night

• No cover for ladies
• Drink specials for ladies
• Grupo Ache de Barrio live until 2 am

Saturdays

Sabados de Gozadera

• Grupo Ache de Barrio live until 2 am

Dance Classes

Take salsa and bachata lessons from our experienced instructors.

No dance partner or reservations needed. All experience levels welcome. Come move those feet!

$5-$10 per person (like us on Facebook to be notified of free class days)

Opening Hours

Come on by!

Wednesday to Saturday

8pm — 2am

Kitchen open until midnight, except Wednesdays (11 pm)

500 E. Nolana
McAllen, Texas 78504
PHONE NUMBER: (956) 687-3100

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If a picture says a thousand words…

Reservations

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Welcome to Havana Club

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Open Hours

Wednesday to Saturday 8p – 2a

Kitchen open until midnight*

*except Wednesdays (11 pm)

(956) 687-3100

Private Room

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Salsa Nights at The Agave Room at Rio

For a fun start to the month, join us on the second floor of the newly renovated Agave Room at 149 W. Mountain Avenue, the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30pm, hosted by FoCo Salsa. Questions? Contact FoCo Connections Event (FoCoCo) – 970.818.2044; [email protected].

The evening starts with an hour-long beginner-friendly salsa lesson, followed by a Salsa dance social from 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM. Click here for a link to their Facebook page!

No partner required to join us for the fun-filled evening (don’t worry, the bar is open, too).

These evenings feature a live band performance with the Salsa Forte or other guest artists! For a $10 admission, enjoy a lesson, dance social, and live music performance!

5px” data-uw-styling-context=”true”>TELL ME MORE ABOUT SALSA DANCING…

Salsa dancing is a social dance, originally from Cuba. The movements are a sort of mixture of Afro-Cuban dance, Son, cha-cha, mambo, and more. It first became popular in the United States in the 1970s in New York. Over time, salsa dancing has grown into a variety of distinct styles coming out of different regions of the U.S. and Latin America, such as New York and Los Angeles, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Columbia. Now, there are salsa dancing socials held all over in bars, ballrooms, nightclubs, restaurants, and even at outdoor festivals! Who doesn’t want to get dressed up, learn some new moves and get active, and have tons of fun doing it?!

OK, WHY SHOULD I TRY IT?

Besides having fun, shakin’ your booty, and meeting new people, the health benefits of salsa dancing alone should be even more reason to get dressed up and go to a salsa dancing class or social!

Health benefits include things like:

• Bone and joint health – Dancing keeps our joints lubricated!
• Weight loss – Dancing increases circulation and burns those calories!
• Muscle targeting – Salsa focuses on ALL major muscle groups!
• Keeps your body “young” – They say that dancing slows the aging process 😉 because it benefits your heart, cardiovascular system, and lung capacity!
• Improved balance – Balancing in all of the various salsa dancing positions strengthens our stabilizer muscles, protects our core, and keeps us less prone to injury in daily life! Additionally, dancing connects our mind, body, and soul to help us express ourselves… now that’s balance!
• Strengthen social skills – There are tons of potential new friends at a salsa social! And everyone there is ready to dance and have fun!
• Improved emotional health – Salsa is a fast-paced and fun form of Latin dancing with helps us burn calories and raise endorphins… and in the words of Elle Woods, “exercise makes endorphins, endorphins make us happy!”

5px” data-uw-styling-context=”true”>WHAT TO WEAR TO A SALSA:

Don’t know what to wear? Here’s a list:

• Dresses, knee length or shorter, but no mini-skirts (anything too short and tight will ride up)
• Skinny jeans or leggings, nothing baggy
• Cropped pants or capris, again though, nothing baggy
• Shorts, mid-thigh or knee length, tight (NO Daisy Dukes)
• Short-sleeved or sleeveless top, light-weight (It is still a workout! Beware of pit stains!)
• Cardigan or sweater, no pullovers, and no hoods or pockets

SALSA NIGHTS

First Tuesday Night of Each Month
149 W. Mountain Avenue; downtown Fort Collins
7:30p – 8:30p for beginner-friendly lesson
8:30p – 10:30p for salsa social
$10 for dancing and a Live Band

Questions? Contact FoCo Connection Events (FoCoCo) – 970.818.2044; [email protected]

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Salsa parties | Crazy salsa lovers

Salsa is getting more and more popular every day. The favorite open air of all salsers, Andreevsky Bridge, is overflowing with salsa dancers. New Open Airs open.

It’s nice that salsa is gaining such popularity. Recently, there was even an advertisement for the World Cup in Brazil, which begins with the words “and salsa dancers.” If salsa appears on the main TV channels in Moscow, it says a lot. Relatively recently, our school took part in two television programs on the Russia 2 channel, and we are not going to stop. nine0003

But back to salsateca. I would like to highlight to you the places where you can apply the acquired skills in the classroom, where can we dance salsa?

Given that it’s summer now, the main place where you can dance is the unforgettable Andreevsky Bridge, which is located on the Frunzenskaya metro station or Park Kultury. There is a huge dance floor, about 300 sq.m. Amazing atmosphere, you are dancing salsa on the banks of the Moskva River, lights come on in the evening, there is a restaurant nearby and the whole Gorky Park. A romantic atmosphere that will not leave anyone indifferent. Therefore, Andreevsky Bridge is perhaps the first place where you should dance salsa this summer. It takes place on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 19.00 And also on other days when the organizers are not too lazy and the weather is conducive to salsa.

Those who have not yet learned at least the basics of salsa, bachata . … run to sign up for classes, and in a month, you will already be on this very bridge.

And what about those who already know how to dance or came to Moscow on their way to the bridge?

Next, there is a wonderful club called Tiki Bar. This is a very beautiful place made, for real, in the Cuban style. Entering this place, you are transported to Latin America. A sea of ​​cocktails, great music, Cuban flags, entourage masks and even a boat where you can have dinner. What is important for salsa dancers is a large dance floor. This establishment is conveniently located on the Barrikadnaya metro station, a 5-minute walk. Here salsatecs are held on Tuesdays, starting at 21.00. Here is a site with information on the establishment and salsateca tiki-bar.ru
Tiki-Bar is open around the clock, 7 days a week! Address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 3a. +7(495) 767-8702.

Honorable 3rd place in our list of cafes R’n’B (cafe Rhythm and Blues). The advantages of this institution include a convenient location right in the heart of Moscow, not far from Red Square on the Arbatskaya metro station. Just 2 minutes walk from the subway. Large dance floor, good DJ, quality drinks, positive atmosphere, you can see good dancers here, i.e. and dance yourself and look at others. nine0015 Address: M. Library. Lenina, Starovagankovsky per., 19, bldg. 2 Phone: 697-6008

And with this establishment we will finish a short tour of Moscow salsatecas.
The place is called Casa Agave – Mexican Restaurant
Website: casa-agave.ru
+7 (495) 624-57-66
Mon-Wed 9:00-24:00, Thu-Sat 9:00-6:00, Sun 9:00-24:00
Kitay-Gorod metro station
Cherkassky Bolshoy per., 17
You can always find out on the website or by phone what days the salsateca take place.

I hope you found this short tour of Moscow’s salsatecas useful. nine0015 Dance salsa and enjoy this wonderful dance.

Your salsa-lovers school.

About school – Territory of street salsa

From an interview with Olga Nosova “History of Moscow Salsa”

Once upon a time, at the turn of the century, with a video camera in her hands, she visited dozens of Cuban discos on Freedom Island, dancing and filming on
film of the best local salsa virtuosos, talking with teachers and collecting gigabytes of material for their future methodology. nine0003

“… I ended up at the LaBamba club in the summer of 1997. My acquaintances brought me there. I remember my first impression: it was almost midnight, music was playing, there were practically no people, we were walking past the dance floor, and there was only one couple dancing …

Her dance seemed to me at that moment some kind of fantastic action: so harmoniously, without corners, one movement flows into another, such mutual understanding … And, looking at them, I, no, not with envy, but with regret thought: “I can never do that!” nine0003

Then the disco began, where various pops, obscure format slow-movies, something Arabic, and in addition to other things – merengue and salsa, four or five songs in a row, were put on in blocks.

At about 1 am there was a show: two striptease numbers alternated with two other numbers (belly dancing, something ballroom and some jugglers with clowns). Sometimes the disco was interrupted by competitions from the category of “wedding”. They passed very lively, someone got a bottle of champagne – and the dancing continued. nine0003

That first time I didn’t like salsa. I didn’t know how to dance it (my escorts didn’t either), but they put on five songs of her, each for 5-7 minutes, up to a long time …
Later, when my students invited their non-dancing friends to our parties, “just watch”, I always warned that they were unlikely to be delighted, because if you don’t dance yourself, then from some point what is happening looks pretty boring.

My friend Sveta was acquainted with Peruvian musicians who performed on the Arbat during the day and danced salsa at “La Bamba” in the evening. She insistently called me to visit the disco again, claiming that they teach dancing there 15-20 minutes before the start. And a couple of weeks after my first visit, we went there together. nine0003

It was late in the evening, about 10.30 pm, salsa was quietly playing in the hall, and classes were going on on the dance floor. One person was standing a little ahead, two more girls were behind him, we were sitting next to him… at that time very few people knew), but already without an account and explanations. And to my surprise, finishing doing another set of movements, he managed to “go out” exactly in step! It was also such a “reconnaissance in force”, then I spent half an hour at home to understand what and how he did. nine0003

That’s what our first group lessons were like at that time.
They were led by Gonzalo Lazo. According to my information, it was he who first tried to teach 90,063 people to dance salsa to 90,064 people.
Of course, there were other “mentors”, but as a rule, they were limited to their friends and acquaintances.
And I continued to learn, dancing with different partners, listening to their remarks, trying to understand and be comfortable. More precisely, we studied with Sveta, of the two of us, at first she acted as a partner. Our training took place as follows: we danced with the guys, Cubans or Peruvians, and if we liked some movement, we took the boy aside, asked him to show it again, and then figured out how to perform it as conveniently as possible. nine0003

GONSALO LASO

Summer 1999.
Gonzalo and two other Cubans, if I’m not mistaken, decided to open a new restaurant, making something like “LaBamba” in it, but on weekdays. Gonzalo then said that he had long wanted to organize a real school, and now a suitable opportunity presented itself.
He invited me to participate in the project as his partner. In fact, I had only to attend the classes so that Gonzalo had someone to show the students new movements. The restaurant took care of advertising and other chores. nine0003

The club was called the “Wild West” and was geographically located near the Sukharevskaya metro station (as one of my students, a German by nationality, once explained to his friend: “After the second prostitute to the right”). In fact, it was an ordinary basement with a cement floor.
The first lesson took place on July 5 (the guys later said that they tried to coincide with the 1st, but it didn’t work out).
Three people came to us for the first lesson, five for the second… Gonzalo attended the first two or three lessons, then he was constantly distracted by the restaurant business. And as a result, quite unexpectedly, I was the only teacher at the school. nine0015 Quite quickly (three weeks later) the group had to be split in two. Arina Kachmazova came to the second or third class, a little later – Igor Mirzoyan and Olga Ryazanova. Future teachers, those who came at the dawn of salsa in Moscow and are dancing now. They were one of the very, very first and are known in the salsa party to this day; many also still dance, it’s just that their names are not “on hearing”.
At various stages of the existence of the school, many now well-known dancers and teachers attended classes in it. Offhand, I can name Dmitry Hort, Sasha Ovdin (who became the “godfather of Novosibirsk salsa”), Igor Meshkov, Denis Ivchenkov, Anton Shcherbak, Slava Khlopkov, Armen Grigoryan, Katya Fomenkova, Oleg Maksimov…

This is how the first salsa school in the capital appeared. Initially, this is the school of Gonzalo Laso, but I only “picked up the banner” many years ago and still carry it.
Soon we had to part with the Wild West, we moved to La Bamba (I don’t remember exactly, it seems like six months later. The name of the school was “born” suddenly, due to production needs. La Bamba organized a rueda competition de-casino

Since our school was the only one in the city, then, accordingly, one team was supposed to come from Moscow, and two teams were supposed to come from St. Petersburg: Carlos and Fabian (there was one there). it worked out, so it turned out to be a “battle” for two.0015 For presentation to the audience and judges, we urgently needed a name. As a result, they took one of the rueda teams. The name turned out to be sonorous and has been preserved for the school to this day.

I would also like to recall one interesting moment. For the first time I invited a foreign teacher to Moscow. It was Augustin Williams, Valencia, late autumn/early winter 2001.

According to my information, he was the first person in Moscow to show live “linear” salsa, NY salsa for 2, and also danced bachata with Lena Amirkhanova during the break between seminars. In my video, Dima Makovsky asks behind the scenes in surprise what kind of dance it is, and why Augustine does not give it at the seminars. nine0015 From that moment on, we actively took up the development of “linear” styles in our school. And we have achieved, in my opinion, impressive results. Sergei Fedorov and Katya Fomenkova took first places in competitions and performed with demonstration numbers. Dima Hort and Igor Mirzoyan are now teaching linear styles.

2002 Salsa competition in St. Petersburg.

Jury Igor Mirzoyan, Olga Nosova, Carlos Torres.

What I mean by “street” salsa.

Everything is extremely simple here – I mean the salsa that is danced on the street. That is, a man was walking, heard a small orchestra playing salsa, and decided to dance.