The Conran restaurant group’s Mezzo site on Wardour Street in London has now fully relaunched with new restaurant, bar and café concepts.

The interior has been completely redesigned by Conran & Partners with a new Spanish and Mediterranean restaurant called Meza now situated on the ground floor.

La Casa del Habano, a cigar shop and café, now occupies the former ground floor Mezzo café and flower stall and opened on 11 October.

Floridita, the new London site of one of Cuba’s most famous bars, is located on the lower ground floor and was the last phase of the project to launch, on 21 October.

Floridita and La Casa del Habana are jointly owned by Mezzo and Havana Holdings Floridita boasts a combined capacity of 300 people: 200 covers in the restaurant, which features a mixture of Cuban and Latin American cuisine, and space for 100 in the bar.

Floridita intends to echo its Cuban predecessor – El Floridita in Havana – the ‘cathedral of cocktails’ that was responsible for the creation of the Habana Special and the Daiquiri. Founded on 16 November 1519 to chill drinks for medicinal purposes, La Pina de Plata changed its name to El Floridita when it was nearing its centenerary.

El Floridita became a world-famous bar in the 20th century and was a favoured haunt of, amongst others, novelist Ernest Hemmingway who had his own bar stool and, more recently, Jack Nicholson, Danny Glover and Giorgio Armani. Details: www.floridita.co.uk