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Búfalo's Rodizio
This all-you-can-eat Brazilian-style grill has smart waiters bringing huge hunks of delicious meat to your table faster than you can pick up your fork. There's a large salad bar, but let's face it, it's designed for the carnivore. It's on the second floor of a shopping arcade; take the lift.
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Casa de Campo
A Cochabamba classic, this loud and cheerful partly open-air restaurant is a traditional spot to meet, eat, and play cacho (dice). There's a big range of Bolivian dishes and grilled meats; the food is fine (and piled high on the plates), but the lively, unpretentious atmosphere is better.
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Casablanca
Both restaurant and bar, this spot is popular with both locals and visitors and always has a busy buzz. As one might expect, there are dodgy Bogart murals on the walls. The place also offers a large range of international dishes, and drinks until late. Service is very poor.
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Cochalita
There's tasty street food and snacks all over Cochabamba, with the papas rellenas (potatoes filled with meat or cheese) at the corner of Achá and Villazón particularly delicious. Great salteñas and empanadas are ubiquitous; for the latter, try Cochalita, which has a range of delicious fillings and also does ice creams. Locals swear by the anticuchos (beef-heart shish kebabs) that sizzle all night at the corner of Av Villaroel and Av América.
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Gopal
This friendly vegetarian place has a great setting at the end of a quiet arcade; the terrace is a tranquil spot. The location is better than the food, which includes soy-based conversions of traditional Bolivian dishes and a few curries.
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Markets
Markets are cheap for simple but varied and tasty meals - don't miss the huge, mouth-watering fruit salads. They're also the cheapest places to find coffee - and the tasty local breakfast specialty, arroz con leche (rice with milk). Watch out for bag snatchers and pickpockets though.
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Mosoj Yan
This attractive, light, and airy café is a very pleasant spot, and as well as serving delicious desserts, decent coffees, and cheap lunches, your bolivianos go to a good cause. It's part of a support centre for teenage prostitutes; the girls run the place and make the food; they also create some of the handicrafts in the shop next door. There's a decent book exchange here too.
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Paprika
One of the 'in' spots, this is a block removed from the roar of Avenida Ballivián, and is a quiet leafy place popular for its food - both Bolivian and international, including tasty baked potatoes and fondues. Later, it becomes a trendy spot for an after-dinner drink, and is a good place to meet young Bolivians.
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Restaurant Marvi
This decent family-run place offers one of the best typical almuerzos (set lunches) around. At dinnertime, solid plates of comida criolla (criollo food) are served.
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Sabor Limeño
This quiet spot is tucked away on an alleyway behind the cathedral, and boasts a very pleasant enclosed terrace. The food is mostly Peruvian - including a decent ceviche.
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Savarín
This popular, well-established barn on Ballivián has a wide streetside terrace where people congregate for filling almuerzos and, in the evening, for a beer or two.
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Sucremanta
These two cheerful daytime locals offer traditional Sucre food; hearty soups and meat dishes, including mondongo (pork ribs) and menudito (pork, chicken and beef stew). Good for both traditional almuerzos and à la carte dishes.
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Tunari
This longstanding local favorite specializes in the sort of things you either love or hate: grilled kidneys (a patent local hangover cure), tripe, and tasty chorizo. But if innards aren't your thing, there are other typical Cochabamba plates. Not to be confused with the mediocre Tunari Churrasquería, which (like this) has several branches.
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