Restaurants in Ecuador
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Trovador Café
On a pleasant pedestrian lane near the center, this place offers frothy cappuccinos, sandwiches and inexpensive lunch plates. Outdoor seating.
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Mi Otavalito
Some of the best Ecuadorian dishes in town attract locals and tourists alike. Fresh ingredients shine in grilled meats, trout and hearty soups.
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Trattoria Sole e Luna
This is an excellent restaurant with a delightful nouveau-Italian atmosphere and friendly service. It's great for lunch, and the risotto is tops.
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Riviera
Every night looks like Christmas Eve at this festively lighted Italian. Serving conventional Italian fare, it offers an extensive wine selection.
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Rincón de Francia
For decades, this has been one of Quito’s best-known French restaurants. A full meal will cost at least $20, twice that if you dip into the wine.
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Grain de Café
Kick back over coffee or order a full meal. This is a laid-back place in the best sense, and there are lots of vegetarian options. Hamburgers too.
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Café Donuts
Join the city’s early risers, including the police force, for pastries topped with glazed fruits, basic breads and an extensive coffee drink list.
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Asadero Don Pancho
Always bustling at lunchtime, the deep and narrow dining room is filled with diners enjoying cheap almuerzos and juicy rotisserie chicken.
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Las 3 Canastas
The best place for fruit shakes and fruit juices is the surfer-themed Las 3 Canastas, a busy daytime spot with street-side tables.
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Pizzería Fornace
With a wood-fired brick oven, thin crusts and fresh ingredients, this is easily the best pizza in town. Locals enjoy the cuts of meat here as well.
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Sabroson
Sabroson is always busy, serving a wider variety of meat, seafood and rice dishes. The fried shrimp platter ($7) is enough for two.
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Toke Esmeraldo
A cheery street-shack where you can pull up a stool for some fresh, fast seafood including ceviche and fried tilapia. Sip on a range of fresh juices.
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La Parrillada de Fausto
This fun, Argentine-style grill serves great barbecued steaks, trout and chicken in a ranch-style setting. Don’t miss the cool, cavelike bar in back.
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Karukera
A prime people-watching spot is Karukera, a small, stylish café serving pastas, sandwiches, crepes, ice cream ($2), cake and coffee.
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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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Hassan’s Cafe
Lebanese food – shawarmas, hummus, kebabs, stuffed eggplant, veggie plates – is good, fresh and cheap at this 10-table restaurant near Colón.
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Varadero
Owned by the same folks as La Bodeguita, Varadero serves Cuban sandwiches and light meals and has live music on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights.
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Chifa Nueva Hong Kong
Hong Kong comes to Ambato with fried rice, tallerines (noodles) and agridulce (sweet and sour) dishes. The little egg rolls are yummy.
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Hamburgers del Sese
One of many student hangouts in the area, Sese serves some of Quito’s best burgers (including veggie burgers) – chow down inside or on the rooftop patio.
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Nuevo Cordovéz
Colorful booths and a bullfighting theme. For those pinching pennies, you'll find good family-style food and cheap almuerzos (set lunches) here.
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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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Chifa Pagoda
The decor is part–wedding cake and part-diner at the best chifa in town, which serves tasty wonton soup, sweet-and-sour shrimp and fried noodles.
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Raymipampa
This Cuenca institution is popular with locals and travelers and stays open late. The food hangs somewhere between Ecuadorian comfort food and diner fare.
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Mama Clorinda
This modest, friendly restaurant serves tasty national specialties to a mostly foreign clientele. Try the llapingachos (cornmeal cakes) with steak.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Think fajitas – the rest of the menu is good, but doesn’t quite measure up to that sizzling plate of chicken or beef. Wash ’em down with smooth piña coladas.
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