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Café Blue
Not wanting to let expats make all the money off the pancake-loving backpacking crowd, these local ladies have started serving all your international faves under a cane roof, but consider going for the Nica breakfast instead.
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Cafe DecArte
This restaurant serves fresh, healthy cuisine, including a recommended Caesar salad and tuna pita sandwich, plus daily vegetarian specials and fresh soups, not to mention a pretty darned spectacular breakfast buffet. The owners also offer mosaics classes to adults as well as local kids, who sell their stuff right here.
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Cafetín El Volcán
Get your quesillos and tiste (toasted corn beverage) at this cheapie.
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Casa San Francisco
Around the corner from the eponymous church, San Francisco serves 'pan-Latin' cuisine, including moles (spicy sauce made with chilies, chocolate and served with meat), nachos, pupusas (a cornmeal mass stuffed with cheese or refried beans) and fajitas (marinated and grilled strips of meat served with a flour tortilla and savory fillings), plus a good happy hour with margaritas and a fabulous Sunday brunch ( to ) for nursing your hangover.
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Chichería Paris
If you need a snack after climbing all those guard towers at La Fortaleza, stop here for vigarón and other traditional treats.
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Comedor-Fritanga Doña Cruz
Comedor-Fritanga Doña Cruz, the steam-table buffet, seems to have plenty of fried items.
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Doña Conchi
Excellent Spanish cuisine is served in a lovely garden, lit by candles in the evening. Prices aren't cheap, but the ambience and sangria (iced punch made from red wine, fruit juice and soda water) are unbeatable, and from time to time Conchi breaks out her castanets to dance for the lucky few.
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El Club
This attractive restaurant/bar does excellent international cuisine, from Italian lasagna to Indonesian satay, in cool Euro styling; it's a great place to meet friends.
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El Zaguán
The best restaurant in town does succulent fire-grilled meats, wonderfully prepared guapote (rainbow bass) from the lake or sea bass from the Pacific, all in a cozy dining room where dueling mariachi trios descend at sunset. Make reservations in the high season.
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Fritangas
Granada has excellent street food, with bags of fruit salad and other goodies on sale between the parque central and Mercado Municipal in the morning. Just before sunset, fritangas set up in the parque central and Calle La Calzada, dishing up barbecue, gallo pinto (rice and beans) and all things fried, onto washed banana leaves for you to enjoy.
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Hot Dogs Connection
Hot Dogs Connection does lots of different dogs, including Don Perro Italiano, with mozzarella, oregano and olives.
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Kathy's Waffle House
With one of the best views in town (right across from the Convento San Francisco), this cheerful café has seven different kinds of waffles and lots of other great breakfasts, plus good coffee and wi-fi(!).
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Las Bocaditas
It's worth checking the cheap 'n' traditional steam-table buffet at Las Bocaditas, to see if anything looks good.
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Las Colinas del Sur
Out past the Mercado Municipal, it's best to take a taxi to this locally revered hole in the wall, with delicious guapote , at reasonable prices.
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Melbar & Los Hijos del Maíz
Melba, the best-dressed woman in Granada, serves comida corriente (a mixed plate of different typical foods) and 13-córdoba cerveza (beer) in her five-star location, right around the corner from the cathedral.
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Mona Lisa
The best pizza in town is served at this upscale joint, which is also a popular bar.
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Nica Buffet
It's not actually a buffet, but it does have some of the best Western-style pancakes in town.
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Nuestra Casa
This homey spot serves some of the best baby back ribs anywhere - no joke, the owner is from Alabama and knows his craft - plus other mostly meaty specials. There's live music on weekends.
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Piscina-Ristorante Casa Vivaldi
Winning 'best perk' in the Mediterranean category is this Italian restaurant specializing in fresh pasta, tiramisu espresso beverages and fine wine served beneath a vine-draped patio. But really it's all about the pool. Hotel rooms are also being built.
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Restaurant Don Daffa
This steam-table buffet, right on the park, may be a bit on the pricey side, but that's because it rocks.
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Restaurant Los Portales
Right on Plaza de la Independencia with ringside seats to all the action, you can enjoy a healthy selection of Mexican food, big salads, great service and Presto coffee on a porch across from Casa de los Leones.
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Restaurante Frutti D'Mare
There are probably a dozen restaurants in this area, most of the 'fried fish and cold beer' variety, but the standout is Restaurante Frutti D'Mare, with Italian-style seafood and a good wine list.
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Restaurante Mediterránio
This beautiful restaurant, set around a big, leafy courtyard, has romantic music, great service and top-quality Spanish cuisine.
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Rosticería J3
Inside this mini mall, enjoy outdoor tables and excellent service over big plates of typical food; the chicken in salsa is great.
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Sophie's Deli Sandwiches
Sophie's Deli Sandwiches does submarine sandwiches.
