Café restaurants in Quito
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chiQuito
This intimate and artsy café makes for a perfect lunch or coffee break during a leisurely walk down to Guápulo.
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Motes de San Juan
Businessmen, nurses, cops, laborers, families, you name it - everyone comes to this hole-in-the-wall eatery, high on a hill in San Juan neighborhood. Why? They all swear it's the best mote (hominy, served with fried pork, toasted corn and hot sauce) in town. Fifty years cooking Quito's most traditional dish has to mean something! Take a cab or kill your legs hiking up José Riofrío.
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Cafetería Modelo
Opened in 1950, Cafetería Modelo is one of the city’s oldest cafés and a great spot to try traditional snacks such as empanadas de verde (plantain empanadas filled with cheese), quimbolitos (a sweet cake steamed in a leaf), tamales and humitas.
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Café Mosaico
Near Antepara, Itchimbia, the drinks here are pricey, but the views over the city are unrivaled. Mosaico is a must for an evening cocktail, when it’s at its liveliest, or an early afternoon coffee, when you’ll likely have the balcony and those views all to yourself.
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Café del Fraile
Country-rustic charm (cast-iron lanterns, wood-beam ceiling) and balcony seating set the stage for a tasty selection of grilled dishes, sandwiches and cocktails. Recent favorites include vegetable soup, truta a la plancha (grilled trout) and corvina.
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El Cafeto
This cozy and welcoming Ecuadorian-owned coffee shop serves coffee made from 100% organic Ecuadorian beans. Espressos and cappuccinos are excellent, and small breakfasts and snacks are available.
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Café Quiteño Libre
For those pinching pennies, you'll find good family-style food and cheap almuerzos (set lunches) here in the brick-wall cellar of the Hotel San Francisco de Quito.
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Café Galletti
Nuclear-physicist-turned-coffee-roaster might seem like a recipe for disaster. Not here. This Ecuadorian-/US-owned café offers excellent organic espresso drinks.
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Café Amazonas
A Quito classic, this popular café attracts a mix of old-timers and upstarts to its smoke-filled interior. There’s good people-watching at the outdoor tables.
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Sakti
This caféteria-style restaurant serves cheap, wholesome soups, veggies, fruit salads, pastas and lasagna to a faithful crowd of lunchtime locals.
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Café Sutra
With its dim lighting, mellow music and cool crowd, Café Sutra is a great place for a snack and a beer before a night out.
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