Shisha, scoops and slow evenings under a hundred small gold lights. Café Havana is Croydon's after-dark living room.
Step off Suffolk House and the ceiling changes first — pressed gold tin, hung with a low field of copper-shaded lanterns that never quite go out.
Black leather booths line the walls, chairs are dressed in crushed velvet, and the mirrors do the rest of the work: the room looks twice its size and twice as warm.
It's a shisha lounge that also does proper coffee, cocktails and scoops — built for long conversations, late starts and later finishes.
Café Havana runs as one room with three moods — pick whichever the night calls for.
Deep booths, low light and a full flavour list — the reason people book the corner seats.
A dedicated counter for milkshakes, sundaes and coffee, running from morning through evening.
Cocktails and soft drinks served under the chandeliers, with screens on for the big nights.