Caracas Restaurants

  1. Café Il Botticello

    Small enough to fill up fast, this unpretentious Italian bistro produces some of the best pizzas around. While you're waiting, fill your plate from the antipasto bar.

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  2. Las Cancelas

    This tasca (Spanish-style bar-restaurant) breathes tradition, with a bullfighting gallery and an extraordinarily long bar, and serves some of the better paellas in town.

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  3. Nonna Bella

    For well-prepared risottos, raviolis and pizzas, check out this pleasant open-air Italian restaurant occupying a large court in the Chacaíto shopping mall. Though it's on the slick side, the kitchen still retains the spirit of 'beautiful Grandma,' as the name translates.

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  4. Restaurant da Marcelo

    For quality Italian fare at the lower end of the price scale, check this unpretentious place hidden down a sidestreet.

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  5. Restaurant Real Past

    Catering to students and other cash-strapped types, Real Past has some of the cheapest and most appetizing pasta and pizza around, though none of the swanky setting.

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  6. Restaurant Terra Park

    Bow-tied waiters shout orders at thunderous volumes at this bustling open-air Spanish restaurant on a broad, breezy ground terrace beside the Torre Oeste. It's a great place to chow down in the Parque Central; the menú del día will leave you contentedly stuffed.

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  7. Tasca La Tertulia

    Highlights include the empanada de bacalao (salt-cod tart) and baked lamb; portions are huge.

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  8. Tasca Mallorca

    This smaller, cozier place has just a few tables alongside the bar.

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  9. Tasca Rías Gallegas

    The horseshoe-shaped bar and various wood-paneled salons here overflow with chattering caracaqueños at lunchtime or after work.

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