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Alexander Coffee & Pub, Santa Barbara
Trendy café serving all manner of java drinks, pastries and sandwiches. It's the place for a cappuccino hit, and has reliably good fruit juices and tasty snacks, from pastries to vegetarian quiche.
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Alexander Coffee & Pub, Sopocachi
Trendy café serving all manner of java drinks, pastries and sandwiches. It's the place for a cappuccino hit, and has reliably good fruit juices and tasty snacks, from pastries to vegetarian quiche.
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Andrómeda
Located at the bottom of Aspiazu steps, this is recommended for almuerzos.
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Ángelo Colonial
This quirky, darkened colonial-style restaurant features a ramshackle collection of antiquities - pistols, swords and antique portraits, plus excellent soups, salads and luscious veggie lasagne.
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Armonía
La Paz's best all-you-can-eat vegetarian lunch is found above Libería Armonia in Sopocachi. Organic products where possible.
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Boomerang
A new and appealing bar-come-pizzeria in a bright and open atrium, which has little to do with an Australian icon. That is, unless the slightly soggy but tasty pizzas, Entel cellular phone chargers and Spanish newspapers keep you coming back.
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Café Banaís
Popular with tourists of all ages for its sunny window seats, handy location next to Plaza San Francisco, and Western-style breakfasts and gourmet sandwiches. Best of all, they know how to make a half-decent coffee.
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Café Ciudad
Slow service and mediocre food but the full menu of burgers, pasta, steak and pizza is available 24/7 every day of the year.
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Café La Terraza, Santa Barbara
This stylish chain offers quality espresso and other coffee treats, as well as rich chocolate cake and cooked breakfasts that include North American-style pancakes and huevos rancheros (spicy scrambled eggs).
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Café La Terraza, Sopocachi
This stylish chain offers quality espresso and other coffee treats, as well as rich chocolate cake and cooked breakfasts that include North American-style pancakes and huevos rancheros (spicy scrambled eggs).
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Café Torino
An olde-world café with '80s music and a good selection of snacks including sandwiches, fruit juices and cakes.
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Casa de los Paceños
Local families and visitors alike love this place for upscale versions of classic paceño (local La Paz) dishes like saice (meat stew), chairo (beef soup) and fritanga (spicy pork). It's probably best not to know what some of these dishes are - the menu's translation doesn't do the flavor justice. But to give you a taster: try the ranga (boiled cow tongue).
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Chalet La Suisse
This Swiss-run restaurant is as upscale as the name sounds - it's seriously expensive (by Bolivian standards), has a very old-style atmospheric and is extremely good. Imported cheeses, top local wines and trout dishes are merely part of the experience. Don't go here if you're after Bolivian atmosphere - it would be as at home in New York or London - but gourmands should splurge.
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Chez Lacoste
This formal-table-cloth kind of place is haute cuisine in every respect. The Bolivian and French chefs work with beef, llama and fish. And we mean work … check out the braid of trout and pejerry (kingfish), a pink-and-white checkerboard of delectable fish. Local ingredients - such as quinoa and huminta (cornmeal filled with cheese, aniseed and cheese and baked in the oven or boiled) - are on the menu. If you're pining for pescada, try the trout fillet with black butter and capers.
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Chifa New Hong Kong
Inexpensive, MSG-laden, Chinese grub. ' Sin Agí-no-moto ' is the key phrase to avoid the glutamate. Lunches only.
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Confitería Club de La Paz
For a quick coffee or empanada, hit this literary café and haunt of politicians (and, formerly, of Nazi war criminals), known for its strong espresso and cakes.
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Confitería Manantial
This place has a popular veggie buffet. Arrive before or you risk missing the best dishes.
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Coroico in Sur
A great place to join the locals for typical Bolivian lunch dishes of plato paceño and set lunches in a tranquil garden setting.
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Dumbo's
Kids - big and small - with elephant-size appetites will enjoy the massive portions, animal-shaped foods, salads and ice-cream sundaes to drool over.
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El Arriero
This Argentine grill restaurant is a spacious, cheery place for a serious protein injection. The chunky meat is kept warm on a tableside grill, while a series of even larger cuts feed three or four. There's a decent salad bar, but it's no vegetarian hangout! Good if pricey wine selection.
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Eli's Pizza Express
A Prado fast-food favorite where you can choose between pizza, pasta, pastries and ice cream. The food is not great - but there's no wait.
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Furusato
This place is neater than an origami figure - and fittingly so. It's very formal, with exquisite Japanese fare, although friendliness isn't always on the menu.
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Heladería Napoli
A good choice for Italian ice cream is Heladería Napoli on Plaza Murillo's north side.
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Heladería Splendid
Heladería Splendid has been scooping up splendid ice cream for nearly 50 years. In addition to ice-cream concoctions, it serves breakfasts, pastries, cakes and other snacks.
