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1. El Credito Cigars
Cuban-style stoagies rolled right there.
2. Versailles
Despite the French name, it's classic Cuban cooking.
Calle Ocho
The heart of Little Havana.

Map of Little Havana

More than 40 years ago, Cubans fleeing the Castro regime flooded into an older neighborhood west of downtown Miami. Don't expect a sparkling and lively reflection of 1950s Havana, however. What you will find are ramshackle motels and cluttered storefronts. With a million Cubans and other Latinos -- who make up more than half the metropolitan population -- dispersed throughout Greater Miami, Little Havana and neighboring East Little Havana remain magnets. That culture, of course, functions in Spanish.