Restaurants in Antigua
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Mesón Panza Verde
This guesthouse restaurant provides divine continental cuisine in an appealing Antiguan atmosphere. If you don't have the budget for a full meal but want to check out the great ambience and gorgeous patio, have a drink or snack at the Panza Verde's Café Terraza.
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Restaurante Doña Luisa Xicotencatl
Probably Antigua's best-known restaurant, this is a place to enjoy the colonial patio ambience over breakfast or a light meal. The bakery here sells many kinds of breads, including whole grain. Check out the hot-from-the-oven banana bread daily at around 14:00.
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Rainbow Café
Fill up from an eclectic range of all-day breakfasts, curries, stir-fries, Cajun chicken, guacamole and more, and enjoy the relaxed patio atmosphere. The Rainbow has a bookshop and travel agency on the premises.
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Traveler Menu
Not nearly as unimaginative as the name would imply, this little bar-restaurant serves up big portions of food that you may have been craving (chow mein, curry etc) in an intimate candlelit environment.
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La Fonda de la Calle Real
This restaurant with three spacious branches, all in appealing colonial style, has a good, varied menu ranging from generous salads and sandwiches to grilled meats. The specialty caldo real, a hearty chicken soup, makes a good meal. This branch is the most attractive of the three, with several rooms and patios. Other branches are located at 5a Av Norte 5 and 5a Av Norte 12. The 5a Av Norte 12 branch is a little cheaper than the others.
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Café No Sé
Advertising uncomfortable seats, confused staff and battered books, this is a pleasantly downbeat option among all of Antigua's finery. There's a little bit of everything here - breakfast (including one option of a shot of mescal and two boiled eggs), burritos, fried chicken, sandwiches, movies, a tequila bar and live music.
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Fernando's Kaffe
Ignore the shopfront-look from the street and head for the back patio. Antigua has no shortage of coffee or cafés, but Fernando's is the sort of place where you could end up hanging out all day, munching your way through the menu of salads and empanadas and sipping some of the best coffee in town.
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El Punto
Highly popular El Punto serves probably Antigua's best Italian food in a neat but animated setting of three adjoining rooms and a patio, each with three or four tables - and some particularly interesting posters on Italian and Guatemalan themes.
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Monoloco
An old-time tourist hangout (take that as a recommendation or a warning), this place serves up a good blend of comfort foods and local dishes, as well as ice-cold beers in a relaxed environment.
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La Peña de Sol Latino
With good, cheap and innovative food and free live music nightly, this little indoor-outdoor place is fast becoming one of the hottest bar-restaurants in town. Get there early for a good table.
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La Casserole
This French restaurant with friendly but smooth service is one of Antigua's best. It's great for steak and dessert lovers. There are just a dozen tables in a patio and one side room.
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Restaurante Korea
This little restaurant, plonked in the middle of a hotel courtyard, serves up incredibly tasty, authentic Korean dishes. Wash them down with a Korean beer or some rice wine!
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Café Condesa
Walk through the Librería Case del Conde on the west side of the Parque Central to this delightful restaurant around the patio of a 16th-century mansion. On the menu are excellent breakfasts, coffee, salads, sandwiches, quiches, cakes and pies. The lavish Sunday buffet is an Antigua institution.
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Café La Escudilla
Hugely popular with travelers and language students, La Escudilla is an inexpensive patio restaurant with tinkling fountain, lush foliage and some tables under the open sky. The food is simple but well prepared and there are plenty of vegetarian options, as well as economical breakfasts and a one-course set lunch or dinner. At the back is Riki's Bar.
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Perú Café
Enjoy tasty Peruvian specialties at this pretty patio restaurant. The excellent causas are like burgers with layers of mashed potato instead of bread; ají de gallina is chicken in yellow chili sauce with baked potatoes, parmesan and rice.
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Cuevita de las Urquizas
Sumptuous tipico food is the draw here, all kept warming in earthenware pots out front - a very dirty trick as the smells wafting out are impossible to go past. Hugely popular with locals, it's worth getting here early to avoid waiting for a table.
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El Sereno
Another of Antigua's beautiful courtyard restaurants, this one offers a careful blend of Asian, Italian and Guatemalan influences. There's a full bar inside, but outside is the place to be for lunch, under the shade of two big trees.
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Jardín Bavaria
This is a bar-restaurant with a verdant patio and spacious roof terrace, offering a mixed Guatemalan-German menu including buffalo steak and suckling pig. There's a good range of beers and the Sunday buffet lunches are tasty.
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El Mix
As the name implies, there's a good mix of things on the menu here - comfort foods, Israeli dishes and a couple of Guatemalan numbers. The star of the show is the mind-boggling array of make-your-own sandwich options.
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Restaurante Don Rodrigo
The food's up to scratch here - lots of meat and seafood with light Guatemalan twists. The real draw is the setting, a gorgeous courtyard with plenty of wrought iron, blossoming flowers and tinkling fountains.
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Restaurante Las Palmas
Twinkling lights and gentle guitar music make this a popular romantic dinner spot. The staples are chicken, seafood, steaks and pasta: try the fettuccine with goat's cheese, shrimps, herbs and garlic.
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Sabe Rico
This little deli whips up some super-tasty snacks, picnic items, delicious homemade cookies, organic fruit and veg and also sells a range of hard-to-find imported foods like couscous and soba noodles.
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El Sabor del Tiempo
One of the town's more atmospheric eateries, done out in rich woods and antique fittings. The menu features some good Italian-themed dishes like rabbit in white wine and there's draft beer on tap.
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Bagel Barn
Just off Parque Central, this is popular for bagels with almost anything, and breakfasts and coffee. They also offer decaf espresso, although we fail to see the point.
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El Papaturo
If you've got a hankering for Salvadoran food, but you're not likely to make it that far, check this place out for some authentic dishes and good steak plates.
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