The L-shaped main dining room can host 170 guests, while the bar and lounge has seating for 50. During the warmer months, the restaurant will also offer a 66-seat sidewalk café. Guests can also reserve a 28-seat private dining room with complete audiovisual capabilities. Available for complete or partial buyout, the restaurant offers a variety of unique entertainment options for events, including cigar rollers, salsa lessons, professional dancers, and musicians.
Chef Pernot’s Nuevo Latino menu is inspired by the question “What would Cuban cuisine be like if it had continued to flourish since the 1950s?” Classic dishes like pescado de oriente are served alongside creative new interpretations of lechon asado, ropa vieja, and a variety of imaginative ceviches. Like the restaurant's other locations, in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Orlando, the Washington spot will offer 13 signature mojitos made from exotic tropical juices and guarapo (fresh squeezed sugarcane juice), along with one of the restaurant's more than 75 varieties of rum.
![Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2010/10/e19271standalone.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![The 9,000-square-foot space boasts a Hollywood-style re-creation of an old town Havana street scene, complete with three-dimensional facades.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image1.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![Chef Guillermo Pernot's menu includes a variety of classic and imaginative New Latin-inspired ceviches and entrées.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image2.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![Architect Carlos Sobrin and thematic design firm Artisan Industry constructed the restaurant interiors using a variety of antique materials, including salvaged doors.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image3.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![In addition to the main dining room, the bar and lounge offers seating for as many as 50 people.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image4.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![This is one of several dining spaces in the expansive main dining room, which offers seating for 170 guests.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image5.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
![Guests can order one of 13 signature mojitos, made from one of the restaurant's more than 75 varieties of rum and fresh-squeezed sugarcane and juices.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2011/11/e19271image6.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)