Exploring Cuba's Budding Restaurant Scene

It requires nearly 125 steps and takes up to six years to create a Cuban cigar. The complexity required to produce what looks like a relatively simple item mirrors the developing Cuban restaurant scene, a tangle of layers that would require a lifetime to unwrap before reaching anything resembling understanding.

At least to the outsider.

For a Cuban, the same tenacious stew of history, adversity, passion and frustration that fuels the Havana restaurant scene is the...