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Buffet Shangrilah
Show up at regular mealtimes for the best selection at this solid steam-table buffet, with a better-than-average salad bar and selection of vegetarian entrees. Bonus: they deliver.
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Café Picoteo
This cozy wood-paneled hangout is a Matagalpa classic, serving espresso beverages alongside affordable Nica snacks like nacatamales, (mashed yucca topped with coleslaw and pork rinds) and the excellent enchiladas suizas (with ham and cheese).
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Centro Girasol
More than just an outstanding source of great coffee, fabulous baked goods and sweet treats, the Girasol is part of Familias Especiales Julia Biliarte, an organization that supports disabled kids and their families. Around the corner, Casa de Yogurt has fresh, frozen and/or flavored yogurt for the same great cause.
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Cyber Moagüina
Named for one of the original 10 indigenous settlements of the valley, this cybercafé's coffee, batidos and pastries are so good that it's almost worth the slightly higher Internet prices to enjoy them. Or just come for the coffee and surf elsewhere.
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El Pullazo
A see-and-be-seen spot for Matagalpa's upper crust, this place serves the spectacular and eponymous cut of marinated beef and delicious steaks, served alongside fresh güirílas . It's just south of town on the highway to Managua.
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Fritanga Campeche
The best spot for grease to counter all the alcohol is this all-night fritanga , which sets up across from the Texaco.
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La Hora del Taco
Serving the same great Mexican food as its sister restaurant in Managua - it uses spices! - one can only hope that this place becomes a full-blown chain. Just south of town on the highway to Managua.
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La Pradera de San Francisco
This elegant spot is at once out of the way, at the empalme to San Ramón, and easy to get to.
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La Vita é Bella
If you can't find it, take a taxi; if they can't find it, tell them 'Parañas Billares,' which is at the entrance to the narrow alley where this hidden gem serves up tasty Italian and vegetarian specialties in an intimate setting. Try the pizza (some of it on focaccia) or spaghetti vitabella, with a bacon and mushroom white sauce with olives, but start with a bruschetta and finish with an espresso beverage.
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Maná de Cielo
This popular steam-table buffet is even better than Shangrilah's (but doesn't have the salad bar), with lots of meaty entrees.
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Pescamar
Excellent seafood - the soups are impressive - is served on a great porch overlooking the city.
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Restaurante El Disparate del Potter
On the road to Jinotega, this ridge-top restaurant marks the spot where driven road builder Charles Potter blasted his way through a wall of solid rock. Renowned for its onion quesillos and repochetas (a corn and cheese torta), the real reason you're here is the view. If it's a clear day, pay the fee to climb the spire of rock and check out the moutaintop view.
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Rincón Don Chato
It looks like a regular formica diner on the main drag, but this nifty nitch has the best batidos, or fruit shakes, in town - the pineapple-celery in orange juice is amazing. Also on the menu are Nica classics with your choice of meat, plus veggie burgers and other vegetarian options. Good breakfasts.
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Rosticería La Posada
Half a block west of Parque Darío, this popular eatery specializes in chicken dishes, like the tasty pollo en salsa jalapeño (chicken in jalapeño sauce).
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