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1822 Restaurant
Grand Hotel Guayaquil's restaurant serves excellent international food in a Mexican/Spanish villa setting, replete with stucco and tile and Simón Bolívar portraits. Up in Pepa de Oro, the coffee is excellent and refills are free.
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Artur's Café
Unlike most of the refurbished facades in the neighborhood, Artur's looks like it's been around for a while - this is a good thing. It feels like a local's secret hideaway, perched over the Río Guayas in Las Peñas, and the slightly chintzy decor only adds to its charm. There's drinks, Ecuadorian food and live music on many weekends.
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Asadero Costeño
This is a large, bare-bones eatery serving grilled chicken, rice and beans on the east side of the Parque del Centenario. Order and pay at the caged cashier before sitting. Next door is the curiously named Parrallidas Beefs & Salads, another busy local eatery.
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Bopan
A good place to break up a walk along the Malecón, Bopan has an extensive menu of crepes, tortillas, sandwiches and pastas.
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Café La Española
The super-clean and air-conditioned dining area more than makes up for this chain outlet's lack of charm. Good deli sandwiches and meal deals, baked sweets and breads are the specialty.
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Caracol Azul
One the city's few gourmet restaurants, Caracol Azul serves French-Peruvian haute cuisine in an elegant dining room for very haute French prices. Try the corvina a lo macho (sea bass smothered in a rich shellfish sauce).
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Chifa Palacio Dorado
One of several Chinese restaurants within a few blocks' radius, Palacio Dorado has a large dining room and good-sized portions.
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El Toro Asado
Serves good, reasonably priced grilled meats in a casual and busy atmosphere. Asado y menestra (grilled beef with lentils or beans) is the specialty.
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Escalón 69
On the steps of Las Peñas, this is a charming mix of romantic elegance and casual local spot, with a menu of creative interpretations of typical Ecuadorian dishes: yucca patties served with honey lemon sauce, squid stuffed with Spanish sausage and rock bass ceviche. It's decorated with flowing yellow drapes, hammocks and handwoven tablecloths.
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Frutabar
From the surfboards, tropical-themed murals and artwork, everything about this little café shouts Hawaii. Besides the 20-plus types of batidos (fruit shakes) and dozens of fruit juices, there are sandwiches, snacks and light meals. There's another branch in Urdesa.
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Grand Banquete Buffet
This unassuming, large Chinese restaurant in Urdesa is a good choice if you're hungry - the buffet packs a wallop. Besides a selection of seafood, it has salads and meat and veggie dishes; chicken and pork are grilled to order.
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La Canoa
In the Hotel Continental, this is a bustling popular diner, Ecuadorian-style, which means instead of hamburgers, the quick dish of choice is a ceviche or fried rice with crab. There's also a branch in the Mall del Sol. Also in the hotel is the expensive El Fortín, which has won international gastronomic awards.
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La Parrillada del Ñato
Still Guayaquil's most famous grill and one of the city's institutions, del Ñato does barbecue in a big way, a reference both to the size of the dining room and the large portions. There's also a branch in Alborada at the corner of Demetrio Aguilera Malta and Avenida Rodolfo Baqurizo Nazur.
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Las 3 Canastas
A downtown spot for fruit shakes, fruit juices and ice cream. Sidle up to the bar stools or hang out at one of the street-side tables.
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Le Gourmet
One of several excellent restaurants in Hotel Oro Verde, Le Gourmet is a top-flight French place. If you're in the mood for a splurge, start off with the warm smoked duck breast salad with caramelized apple and emulsion of raspberry and then the crab claws flambéed with Armagnac and pastis.
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Lo Nuestro
Housed in a century-old mansion complete with wooden shutters and period furniture, Lo Nuestro is one of the most atmospheric places in Guayaquil to eat seafood dishes typical of the region. Musicians play on Friday and Saturday evenings when reservations are recommended and the place fills at lunch time with local bigwigs.
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Pipes Pan de Columbia
Piping hot baked goods served up late just northeast of the Parque del Centenario.
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Poly Restaurant
One of the few authentic local-style eateries left around the area of the Malecón and Las Peñas.
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Resaca
This restaurant on the Malecón feels a little like TGI Fridays, what with the red checkered tablecloths, salads, chicken wings, pasta dishes and friendly waiters. It's also a popular bar open late on weekend nights.
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Restaurant Ali Baba
For a little variety, head to Ali Baba for Middle Eastern staples like hummus and falafel. It's a small but charming place with several tables open to the street.
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Ristorante Casa Italia
One of the few stand-alone Italian restaurants downtown, Casa Italia is a casual, informal place with cheap almuerzos with your choice of pastas.
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Tasca Vasca
From the waiters' uniforms to the chalkboard menus, from the exposed brick to the smoky cellar-like atmosphere, Tasca Vasca is more Spanish than a restaurant in Madrid. Choose from plates such as grilled octopus, zarzuela de mariscos (seafood stew) and baby eels, tapas and paella.
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Trattoria da Enrico
One of the more expensive but also more romantic places to eat in Guayaquil, da Enrico makes its intentions loud and clear by the dim mood-lighting, low cellar-like ceiling and, well, the prices on the menu. Serves conventional Italian fare and has an extensive wine selection.
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Tsuji
A stylish, upscale Japanese restaurant that wouldn't be out of place in New York City, or Tokyo for that matter. Sushi, sashimi, noodle and tempura dishes are all on the menu.
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