Café Haití

A brief stop on our tour, we were informed that Café Haití is also referred to as "coffee with legs" and that is more than apparent. The young ladies working here are the Chilean equivalent of the American Hooters chain. High heels and extremely short skirts.

How's the coffee? That's not why the clientele of this place is entirely male.

I didn't have pesos to use the public banos (restroom) so we stopped in to this visually appealing coffee house for a quick cup of cortado and some water while we were in Santiago Chile.

This cafe features a counter for perching and throwing back a caffeine jolt. Most patrons here drink their coffee fast and roll out.

The cortado was good but not exceptional. It does come served in a beautiful glass and metal European style cup , which we did not experience because we asked for ours to go, a mistake.

Note bien: the banos here consisted of three urinals attached to the wall in what appeared to be marked as a unisex bathroom and clearly was not.
I ventured solo past the do not enter employees only door through a locker room for staff and a utility closet to find a sit down toilet that a female could use that was in a tiny closet-unmarked- in the back.

In the spirit of adventure- and since we did not plan a trip to Chile but were redirected there courtesy of United Airlines and Copa Airlines- I consider this entire trip a bonus adventure- I accepted my bathroom exploration as par for the course.

However, we also noted that all the staff here were young ladies wearing sheer black stockings, tight bodysuits and hyper abbreviated red velour miniskirts. Just saying. Perhaps this is the Chilean version of Hooters coffee style!

Wandered in here in the middle of the afternoon for some coffee. So glad we did. Coffee was great and came with a complimentary small croissant and a glass of seltzer. My husband loved his cafe frio.