Restaurants in Bogotá
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Crepes & Waffles
This chain of restaurants serves, obviously, crepes and waffles, plus salads and a range of desserts. It's a professional operation with a good philosophy - they only hire single mothers and women in need.
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La Puerta Falsa
This is Bogotá’s most famous snack shop – with displayed multicolored candies beckoning you into the tiny spot that’s been in business since 1816. Grab a sticky breva candy, eggs or tamales for breakfast, or sit with chocolate completo (hot chocolate with cheese, buttered bread and a biscuit; COP$4000).
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Salto de Ángel
Parque 93’s best location – a raised restaurant with cavernous rooms topped with bamboo poles and huge windows overlooking the park – the ‘Angel Falls’ is often full. It’s probably just as good for its setting and drinks (or an excellent slushy cantaloupe juice, COP$4000) as it is for its typical fare: steaks, salads, sandwiches, fajitas.
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Donostia
This hip restaurant run by five boyhood friends puts a Mediterranean twist on Colombian food - adding spices to lighten up its meals. Meat lovers will enjoy the chuleta de cerdo BBQ (pork ribs grilled with a special recipe native to Mompós). You can hear live music here on Wednesday.
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Restaurante Fulanitos
Fulanitos is a beautifully arranged, informal place which offers food typical of the Valle del Cauca in southern Colombia. It has excellent views.
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Pastelería Florida
Those needing a bit of pomp or history with their chocolate santafereño should make the hike to this classic snack shop/restaurant (a legendary spot for hot chocolate since 1936), with uniformed waiters serving up a variety of cakes.
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Tapas Macarena
Run by a Dutch/Colombian couple, this cool corner spot is tiny with a play on the usual tapas, including sautéed beef with Indonesian peanut sauce, and Dutch cheese plates. Plenty of Belgian beers too.
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Comida Mexican al Pastor
One of the few low-priced restaurants in Zona Rosa, this Mexican place with a bright yellow facade serves up nachos, quesadillas and tacos to hungry partygoers.
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L’ Jaim
This little bit of Israel transported to Bogotá serves great shawarma (chopped meat and veggies served with pita and hummus) plus felafel and baklava.
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Andrés Carne de Res
Hang onto your hats. This legendary steakhouse blows everyone away – even repeat visitors – for its all-out-fun atmosphere with decent steaks and all sorts of surreal decor and designed gimmicks such as menus retracting from the rafters. For most, it’s more than a meal – but a leave-the-watch-at-home expanse of late-night rumba. Staff will get you on the floor if you resist joining in. The catch is that it’s out of town – in Chía, 23km north towards Zipaquirá. A taxi from Bogotá costs about COP$25,000 to COP$40,000.
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Restaurante La Pola
A classic spot, La Pola – on the road to Monserrate – has a mix of old-style rooms and a small courtyard, and offers an excellent lunch deal of meats (the carne a la criolla, a dish of yummy beefsteak with onion and tomato sauce, is superb), along with juice and some of the city’s best ajiaco (soup with chicken, corn, potato, cream and capers).
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Enchiladas
For great Mexican meals (veggie and meat), try this lovely spot with Mayan reliefs, a toasty fireplace and old Mexican film photos on the walls. The giant, tasty meat-filled platter of enchiladas and chilaquilas ‘General Lee’ is named for a gringo regular (not a US Civil War general; COP$22,000). Skip the tacos.
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80 Sillas
Usaquén’s busiest spot is all about putting a modern spin on traditional ceviche, set in a redone colonial farmhouse on the southwestern corner of the plaza. You can pick from a host of ceviche styles (such as ginger or a hearty criollo with bacon, potato, lemon and cheese). Yes, there are 80 seats.
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Harry’s
The busiest of the dressed-up spots, Harry’s has a massive covered patio, sidewalk seats and slick bar area – popular for an afternoon beer or glass of wine, and more substantial Argentine steaks and seafood dishes later on. There’s a nice bakery too, offering salads, sandwiches and sweets.
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Al Wadi
Located in the neighborhood of La Macarana, this small restaurant is decorated with shisha pipes and scenes from Lebanon. Try a felafel or kebab, finished off with an Arab confectionary. Around the corner, on Carrera 4a, you'll find several other upscale restaurants.
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Anderson’s
Run by a Nebraskan, this seven-table eatery – filled with bohos, judges and Congressmen – is a cozy wood-floor spot with an open kitchen and excellent dishes, like a stacked filet mignon atop hash browns and a super banana foster for dessert.
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Sanalejo
A romantic candle-lit series of rooms in this orange-and-green home off Jiménez cooks up pastas, but is better for its meats (like the ‘Baby Beef’ – a chunky serve of steak with fries for COP$22,000). Best of all, it’s open for dinner.
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Asociación Futuro
Splitting its breakfast trade evenly between locals and backpackers from nearby hostels, this cute corner pad churns out great set breakfasts and Colombian dishes later on. The community-run spot employs staff from a poor area.
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New York Deli
Pinch yourself all you want but you're not dreaming, though it may seem like it when you're chomping down on an authentic pastrami sandwich or bagel, lox and cream cheese. Corned beef and tuna melts are also available.
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Cuba Pizza
This cramped basement space is run by a born-again dough maker who credits ‘a lot of love’ for why her incredibly underpriced pizzas, topped with interesting ingredients such as octopus, are of the best in town.
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Candela Café
This exclusive lunch café is a major hit with the local suit-and-tie set. Try an excellent Mediterranean salmon, a spicy chili con carne or a tasty gratinado (cheese and chicken soup).
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La Juguetería
Freaky toy-house in Macarena that serves steaks. Glass-top tables feature xylophones and demonic dolls, while merry-go-round horses watch over from the walls. Hard to walk away unfazed.
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Café de la Peña Pastelería Francesa
This simple French-run bakery, with local art adorning the walls of a couple seating areas, makes some of the nicest sweets and pan de chocolate around the center.
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Casa Mexicana
A block from Zona Rosa’s main action, this happy corner spot has Zapata pics on the walls, colorful sundresses on the waitresses and yummy Mexican specialties on the plate.
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