Restaurants in Oruro
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Nayjama
This appealing three-floor choice serves high-quality traditional Oruro food with a dash of innovation. The servings are huge so ask for half a portion of anything you order. Lamb is the specialty, as is cabeza, the sheep’s head served with salad and dehydrated potatoes. The English menu is slightly more expensive so ask for the Spanish one.
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Bravo’s Pizza
Bright, with big windows overlooking the square and a light ambience, this 2nd-floor eatery has 20 pizza varieties, including a spicy one with dried llama meat, plus hamburgers, sandwiches, burritos and breakfasts (B$20).
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Las Retamas
One of Oruro’s best restaurants, this rustic spot in a cozy series of rooms with leafy views dishes out international meals and Bolivian specialties such as pacumutu (grilled beef chunks with veggies on a skewer) and silpancho (a thin schnitzel). Their selection of cakes is stellar.
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This upstairs café is opposite the tourist kiosk - you enter through a small salteñería (place specializing in salteñas - filled pastries). It's a peaceful spot more used to locals than tourists. What's on offer is very limited, but the service is friendly.
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Las Delicias
Of several grilled-meat restaurants (churrasquerías), on this long street, this one is the best, with attentive service, sizzling table-side parrilladas (plates of mixed grilled meats), great almuerzos and a pleasant covered patio.
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Jordan's
There's a bit of everything here, with a clothes shop at the front, internet terminals upstairs and a wireless zone in the café. Best is the café, which serves pricy but excellent coffee and moist, tasty cakes in a stylish modern space.
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La Cabaña
This attractive bamboo-clad restaurant is an attentive, amiable place that serves Oruro's best steaks; they are all delicious. Go for the half portions unless you are seriously hungry. There are also omelettes, and pasta and fish dishes.
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La Casona
Out-of-the-oven salteñas by day, quick sandwiches for lunch, and pizza and pasta at dinner keep this little place buzzing, especially at night when it gets really busy and hot, temperature-wise.
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Govinda
Forget you’re in Bolivia at this Hare Krishna-devoted restaurant behind a modern glass front where vegetarian meals are fresh, cheap and creative, the decor blue and light, and the music ambient.
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La Estancia
Grilled meat is the specialty at this family-style restaurant with an Argentine flavor in its two dining rooms and a covered courtyard. Their pork lunch is popular on weekends.
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Mateo’s
This traditional cafe-restaurant, on a busy corner in the heart of town, is popular with families for its range of decent snacks, meals, coffee and cold beer.
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Las Brasas
Another decent grilled-meat restaurant is this down-to-earth place, where tasty churrasco (steak) is grilled on the street to the envy of passers-by.
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El Fogon
If you want to try charquekan, head to one of the eateries around the bus station; El Fogon is on the glossy side but quite good.
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Paprika
Comparatively formal by Oruro standards, this upstairs restaurant, frequented for business lunches, has good service and decent, if unspectacular, food.
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Restaurant Pagador
The cheapest set-lunch specials are around the train station and Mercado Campero. Recommended is Restaurant Pagador, deservedly popular with locals.
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Pagador
Pagador is a no-frills restaurant deservedly popular with locals who eat in the simple dining room or the covered patio outside.
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Confitería Dumbo
A decent quick stop for cakes, empanadas, salteñas (meat and vegetable pasties), hot drinks and helados (ice creams).
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El Puente
If you want to try charquekan, head to one of the eateries around the bus station or, better, to El Puente, near Plaza Pagador.
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El Huerto
Tasty cakes, snacks and cooked-to-order vegetarian lunches are served at this friendly hole-in-the-wall place.
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Dali
This stylish and popular cafe is a fun weekend option and a great place for a coffee break during the day.
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