Paladar
Sign in to saveIn Cuba a Paladar (plural: paladares) is a small, family-run restaurant. The name comes from a Spanish word for "palate." Paladares serve as a counterpart to state-run restaurants for tourists seeking a more vivid interaction with Cuban reality, and looking for homemade Cuban food.
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In Cuba a Paladar (plural: paladares) is a small, family-run restaurant. The name comes from a Spanish word for "palate." Paladares serve as a counterpart to state-run restaurants for tourists seeking a more vivid interaction with Cuban reality, and looking for homemade Cuban food.
==Origin of the name== The term in popular usage has its origin in the Brazilian soap opera Vale Tudo, shown in Cuba in the early 1990s. Paladar (Portuguese and Spanish for "palate") was the name of the chain of restaurants run by Rachel Accioli, the protagonist, played by Regina Duarte. The broadcast of that soap opera coincided in time with the first issue of licenses for self-employers's work in Cuba, so Cuban popular culture designated the then-new type establishments by this name.