Restaurants in Honduras
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Munchies
Located on the 1st floor of an island home built in 1864, this restaurant has a great Caribbean vibe, with pleasant outdoor seating on the front porch and at the back. The menu is a bit limited, but includes good vegetarian options and big breakfasts, which keeps it busy with travelers.
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RJ’s BBQ
Huge, cheap, well-prepared dishes attract a crowd here – it’s lucky for the other restaurants in town that RJ’s is only open three days a week. Choose from barbecued chicken, wahoo, kingfish, pork or beef, all of which are served with mashed potato and salad. The selections are written on a chalk board near the cash register, and erased one by one as the night wears on and the food runs out. Needless to say, come early. It’s across from Alton’s Dive Shop.
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Jim’s Pizza Copán
This thatch-roof restaurant serves some of the best pizza around. Choose from a variety of ingredients – pepperoni, ham, sausage, bell peppers, onion, mushrooms, olives – and it’s baked before your eyes in the open-air kitchen. A steady stream of clients keeps the place going late.
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Argentinean Grill
The hottest restaurant in town, this is the place to splurge if your lemps are burning a hole in your wallet. As the name suggests, steaks are the specialty – the filet mignon is spectacular – but if red meat isn’t your thing, the seafood and chicken dishes are just as good.
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La Llama del Bosque
From the outside, this place looks forgettable. But eat one meal here and you’re likely to remember it for a long time. The menu is extensive and varied with dishes that are delicious, beautifully presented, abundant and cheap.
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Pizzería Bella Italia
Pizza here is terrific – from personal to 16-piece gigantes (extra large) – but the specialty is the panzerotti, a variation of calzone stuffed with salami, ham, mushrooms and more.
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Carnitas Nia Lola
An American bar-and-grill planted firmly on the Honduran mainland, this restaurant feels a bit more upscale than other spots in town and draws an older – we mean ‘more mature’ – crowd.
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ViaVia Café
A hip boho atmosphere with outdoor and indoor seating; the daily specials are the way to go at this place. Each day the chef takes a crack at various world-food dishes and often pulls them off with flair.
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Pupusería Universitaria
This friendly hole-in-the-wall is immensely popular with tourists and locals alike. It serves – you guessed it – pupusas (stuffed patties) of every shape, size and flavor.
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Pizza Hut
Don’t forget to eulogize Dom DeLuise, who played ‘Pizza The Hutt’ in Mel Brooke’s Spaceballs.
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Beach House
This is a fine hotel, but they’re simply overpriced – the last, spectacularly so.
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El Asado Don Juan
El Asado Don Juan is a meat-lover’s paradise.
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Expatriates Bar & Grill
Aptly named, this is a longtime favorite of foreigners living in La Ceiba. The specialty is barbecue chicken wings, but just about everything is grilled and good – ribs, shrimp, chicken breasts, veggies. There’s also a full bar, occasional live music, book exchange, community board, large-screen TV with major sporting events, and high-speed internet.
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Bite on the Beach
Perched on a rocky outcrop at the north end of the beach, this was West Bay’s second establishment, and the first restaurant, when it opened in 1996. (How times have changed!) The friendly American owners, who took over in 2001, serve an eclectic menu, from hamburgers and blue-cheese-and-sundriedtomato chicken to Thai curry and conch soup. Its large garden salads are made with vegetables from Roatán’s hydroponics garden, and the key lime pie is divine. The view isn’t too shabby either – from the restaurant’s raised two-level eating area, the bay and ocean spread out below you, both endlessly blue.
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Sitio Archeológico el Puente
Ten kilometers southwest of La Entrada, Sitio Archeológico El Puente sees only a trickle of visitors. With one large-ish pyramid and no stelae, El Puente (the Bridge) doesn’t begin to compare in size or artfulness to Copán, but having a Maya site all to yourself is a memorable and increasingly rare experience. Unfortunately, there are no buses to the site. If you have a car – or better yet, a bike – it’s well worth a trip out there. By taxi, well, you’re better off spending that money on a guide at Copán.
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Mayoka Lodge
For a couple of grand each, you and the other jurors can deliberate in style at this stunning six-bedroom, 1980-sq-meter beachfront home, surely one of the most beautiful houses (and most luxurious accommodations) in the whole country. Overlooking Sandy Bay, the home features a wine cellar, cigar humidor, infinity pool, flat-screen TVs, multilingual book and DVD library, pool and poker tables, tennis courts, kayaks, sea scooters, wireless internet, maid, chef and chauffeur service…the list goes on and on. Rates include meals and most drinks, but not taxes.
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Lighthouse Restaurant
Everyone loves an inside tip, and Lighthouse Restaurant is that easy-to-miss ‘secret spot’ that hoteliers like to recommend to their guests. It’s pricy, but has great views and a landed-elite British Caribbean feel. The coconut prawns and Thai-style seafood bowl are reliable, and the daily specials usually have some intriguing items. The setting is the real highlight: it’s hidden from the main road and (amazingly enough) is one of only a couple of restaurants with seating right on the water. Service is a bit hit and miss. It’s near Mavis and Dixie’s.
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Restaurante Lai-Lai
This Chinese restaurant is housed somewhat improbably in a beautiful converted colonial mansion, with azulejo (painted tile) floors and an inner courtyard with filtered sunlight from above. The food is a step up from similar restaurants - not exactly refined, but quite tasty. The 'personal menus' come with three different items and a tall glass of soda, and there are of course the mongo 'family' plates typical of many Chinese restaurants.
Service is uneven, but at least the building will occupy your eyes while you wait.
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Thompson’s Café Bakery
Don’t leave Utila without stopping here at least once to try the famous Johnny cakes – a doughy biscuit that is like manna from heaven when fresh from the oven and smeared with butter. For something heartier, have it with egg and ham: a Ferrari to the Egg McMuffin’s Pinto. Thompson’s opens early (and starts baking even earlier) so you can snag breakfast before an early dive. Good egg-and-bean breakfasts, fresh bread and cinnamon roles are also served.
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Churrasqueria Momo’s
A meat-lover’s haven, Momo’s, one block south of Parque Central, serves beef in four basic styles: pincho (kebab), churrasco (Argentinean-style beef), puya so (a choice cut of steak), and parrillada (a sampler, including sausage, beans and tortillas). There are a few chicken, pork, and shrimp dishes, but you might as well go somewhere else for those. Meals are served in an open-air dining area overlooking the Valle de Copán.
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Café Paradiso
Coffeehouse lingerers will like this coffeehouse/gallery near El Arbolito, one of the coolest spots in the downtown area. Order international food - ham and cheese croissant, yogurt cup with granola, small salads - and check out the goings-on at the extensive bulletin board in front. Artsy, mostly English-language movies are shown Tuesdays; Thursdays are for poetry readings or other live cultural performances. High-speed Internet is also available.
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Tre Fratelli
A blast of cool air and a huge mural of San Francisco welcome guests to this popular and reasonably-priced Palmira restaurant. It's a chain, yes, but one serving reliable Italian food. The long list of pasta includes seafood lasagna and fettuccini inferno, made with spicy shrimp and chicken sausage. There are also several main dishes - meat and fish mostly - and pizza. A spacious outdoor patio is nice when it's not too hot.
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Café la Milonga
This terrific Argentinean grill has much more than just meat – and is much more than just a restaurant, for that matter. The extensive lunch and dinner menu includes sandwiches (several veggie options available), thick wedges of quiche (spinach, eggplant, broccoli, Lorraine), empanadas (chicken, beef or spinach) and of course excellent cuts of meat, in 8oz or 12oz portions that are melt-in-your-mouth tender.
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Mango Tango
This breezy restaurant-café-bar is a good place to start any Zona Viva outing: for many, it’s the main destination. Its claim to fame is the well-stocked salad bar, one of the few in Honduras. The rest of the menu is typical north coast and Ceibeño fare – lots of seafood – served fresh at palapa -shaded tables. The bar stays open late, with sport showing on the large TVs.
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Rinconcito Graciano
This artsy place with Lencan art on the walls, handmade menus and rustic clay dishes, has a menu rife with traditional Lencan food – ticucos (cornmeal patties, stuffed with beans), anafres (bean fondue with tortilla chips), mulitas (corn tortilla filled with beans, eggs, avocado and cheese) and chilate (a sweet drink). Opening hours can be very irregular.
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