PastoRestaurants

Restaurants in Pasto

  1. Asadero de Cuyes Pinzon

    Pastusos get dressed up to eat at this place about 1.5km from the center of town. There’s only one thing on the menu: asado de cuy (grilled guinea pig). You’ll be given plastic gloves so you can rip the grilled rodents apart and share them. One cuy is big enough for two. Pasto is the only place in Colombia where cuy is mainstream and popular.

    reviewed

  2. Salón Guadalquivir

    This cozy cafe serves classic pastuso treats, including quimbilito (a sweet pastry of raisin, vanilla and sweet corn) and tamales de añejo (the Pasto version of tamales). The walls are lined with posters from the annual Carnaval de Blancos y Negros.

    reviewed

  3. La Merced

    This big bustling cafeteria is hugely popular, and does everything from hamburgers to lobster. It offers an everchanging roster of daily specials (COP$12,500 to COP$14,000). The streetside bakery sells the obligatory strawberries ’n’ cream, plus pizzas from COP$15,000.

    reviewed

  4. Caffeto

    This fancy-schmancy bakery does gourmet sandwiches, omelettes and salads served on unusual crockery. The cakes are stupendous, and it does enormous ice-cream sundaes and serves real espresso coffee. Enough to satisfy even the most jaded traveler’s inner yuppie.

    reviewed