Where to Eat in Santiago

Santiago is a big City, so you know you will find almost everything that you are looking for. You want a good Thai Restaurant? You’ve got it (www.restaurantbangkok.cl), Do you want a really good Burger? You will find it in Mr. Jack (www.mrjack.cl), But if we are talking about a really great typical chilean meal, you should go to a couple of restaurants from our list.

Typical chilean-cultural-locals expirience

The fisrt one, as always, is for budgets a bit more tights and its called “Los Buenos Muchachos” You will spend pp. from 5.000 to 8.000 pesos and it includes the dancing with the live orchestra.

Its located in different places in Santiago, but the one in Barrio Brasil is the one you should go for. Cause if you are up for trying a good Pisco Sour (one of the typical drings of the country, see section “x”), eat, and have an amazing time dancing with locals this place is for you. Although if you are a gringo in the dancing floor, you have to be carefull with the hot girls with a few to many shots that want to dance with you, cause she might be with someone, so keep your eyes open and hands above her weist, cause this place is more likely to be filled with couples and large groups of friends.

If you want to get a bit more than a gentil touch of a weist we have other places for you in our entertainment tab (where to have real fun).

So to get there it all depends of course where are you in the city. You should take a taxi, if you take it from the Providencia core area it should cost you about 4.000 pesos, if you are up to walk a bit you have to take the metro in your nearest station (see our map), and get of in Estación Cumming, línea 1, then you get in the north sidewalk, you will see a big church, take that Street Ricardo Cummings and go tours north for 1 1/2 blocks. If you rented a car they have secured parking lots for you, they will charge you for that 1.000 pesos.

The other place we love is Adoves de Argomedo its more fancy that the other one, its ambience is like a typical restaurant from the country side, you will find dancing and good grill meat, cordero asado al palo (lamb softly barbeqed in a stick for hours) and also sofisticated dishes. Their live orchestra will make you dance all night at the music of typical Chilean songs and you’ll love it! You have to ask for the song “Si vas para Chile” and/or “De la Caballeria” The first one is about a chilean living abroad, who ask someone if he goes to chile to meet with his loved woman and he describes how beautiful is the place she is in (the southern country sides). The last one relates to the passion of the Chilean Huaso to their country and its traditions.

The spending pp. goes from the 8.000 to 15.000 depending on how many bottles of chilean wine and pisco sours are you up for.

(here we have to add time of opening and closing, web site, capacity, contact for reservation)

Its located on the other side of the main Street Alameda of Cerro Santa Lucia in the Street Lira almoust getting to…

Good food, Good ambience & Good Prices!

A friend of mine came to Chile for work and travel for a few months and she loves to eat, she gave me a couple of heads up for different things that i never thought about as something unique, cause I got used to those things here in chile, but you traveler are going to be thankful for this woman!

Starting with the Ave Paltas Sandwish, real hot dogs (not the ones you are used to in The States), to honey rosted peanut from little carts in the streets, going threw amazing sea food like a fish called congrio, that if you see it alive you will be having nightmares because of the ugly it is, you are going to expirience amazing flavours from Chile and all around the world.

You have to know although that you can drink water from the tab. But, if you are starting your trip here i would buy sometimes bottled so the change is not that big to your body and you start getting use to.

Also, I know about whats the word when you go to south american countrys in matter of food, where to eat it and that sort of things, so we selected good places in that matter. Although I like Street food, you can run into amazing flavors if you risk a bit in to that (ask Anthony Burdain haha!), and we are going to try some good ceviche in the Street, made it by peruans women, but you can leave that to the next traveler if you had bad experiences. When it comes to me, I go for it almost every time!


Dont want to spend to much

So we are starting with some good Ave Paltas! First an Ave Palta is a sandwish made of chicken and abocado, but you have to order it always with some cheese in it. Where to have it? I love 2 places for it, “Dominó” and “La fuente Alemana”.

Dominó (www.domino.cl), is a chain thats started 30 years ago with one little place in down town, but it was so good that it didnt take much to turn in to the hit of the white collar necks. In the 80’s, all the stock brockers whent there to have a piece of their amazing and huge sandwishes. Recently it became a chain owned by the same people, doing a job almoust imposible, to keep the quality and attention the same as in the beggining! All the sandwish are named by a country depending on the color they have for the things you add in them. You have to try here the Ave Palta con Queso and Lomito a lo Pobre con palta, this one is thin pieces of pork with fried onion, friend eggs, plus palta. You will not regret it!

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Some of the local preparations you have to try in Chile

• Pastel de choclo: corn casserole filled with ground beef, onions, chicken, raisins, hardboiled egg, olives, and topped with sugar and butter.
• Empanada de pino: a baked pie filled with ground beef, onion, raisins, a piece of boiled egg and a black olive. Watch out for the pit!
• Empanada de queso: a deep-fried pastry packet filled with cheese. Found everywhere, including McDonald's.
• Cazuela de vacuno: beef soup with a potato, rice, a piece of corn and a piece of squash.
• Cazuela de ave (or de pollo): same as above, but with a piece of chicken.
• Cazuela de pavo: same as above, but with turkey.
• Porotos granados: stew made with fresh beans, squash, corn, onion and basil.
  • con choclo: with grains of corn.
  • con pilco or pirco: with corn thinly chopped.
  • con mazamorra: with ground corn.
  • con riendas: with thin sliced noodles.
• Curanto: lots of seafood, beef, chicken and pork, potatoes, cheese, and potato "burguers," prepared in a hole in the ground ("en hoyo") or in a pot ("en olla"); a dish from Chiloé.
• Southern sopaipillas: a fried pastry cut as 10-cm (4-in) circles, with no pumpkin in its dough (see Northern sopaipillas in the desserts section). They replace bread. They are known South of Linares.
• Lomo a lo pobre: a beefsteak, fried potatoes, a fried egg (expect two in restaurants) and fried onions.

Sandwiches

• • Hotdog or completo. Not similar to the American version. This one includes mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, tomato, mashed avocado (palta), sauerkraut (chucrut) and chili (ají). These ingredients make a full sandwich, called un completo. With mayonnaise, tomato and avocado it's un italiano with the colors of the Italian flag.
  • Lomito. Cooked pork steaks served with anything that can go in a hotdog. Italiano is the preferred form but German purists prefer it with sauerkraut (chucrut).
  • Chacarero: a thin beefsteak (churrasco) with tomato, green beans, mayonnaise and green chili (ají verde).
  • Barros Luco: Named after President Ramón Barros Luco. Thinly-sliced beefsteak with cheese.
  • Choripán: Bread with "chorizo", a highly-seasoned pork sausage. Named that way because the contraction of "Pan con Chorizo" or "Chorizo con Pan".
  A common combination is meat with avocado and/or mayonnaise, e.g. Ave palta mayo (chicken with avocado and mayonnaise) or Churrasco palta (thinly-sliced beefsteak with avocado). The strong presence for avocado is a Chilean standard for sandwiches that influences the fast food franchises to include it in their menus.

Desserts

• • Northern sopaipillas: a fried pastry cut as 10-cm (4-in) circles, which includes pumpkin in its dough, and normally is eaten with chancaca, a black treacle or molasses. It's customary to make them when it rains and it's cold outside. Sopaipillas as a dessert are only known north of San Javier. From Linares to the South, they are not dessert and pumpkin is left out, so, when it rains, Chilean Southerners must cook picarones. In Santiago, Sopaipillas can be served covered with a sweet syrup as a dessert, or with spicy yellow mustard.
  • Kuchen (or cújen, pronounced KOO-hen) is German for pie. In the South ask for kuchen de quesillo, a kind of cheesecake.
  • Strudel (pronounced ess-TROO-dayl). A kind of apple pie.
  • Berlín. When they translate John Kennedy's famous quote (often mistakenly thought of as a gaffe) they say it's a “jelly doughnut”. The Chilean version is a ball of dough (no hole) filled with dulce de membrillo, crema pastelera or manjar. Powder sugar is added just in case you have a sweet tooth.
  • Cuchuflí. Barquillo (tube of something crunchy like a cookie) filled with manjar. The name originally comes from cuchufleta wich means deceipt or trickery, as they used to be filled only at the tips of the barquillos, leaving the middle part empty.
  
  
  FruitCentral Chile is a major tempered fruit producer, you can easily get fruit for dessert, including apples, oranges, peaches, grapes, watermelons, strawberries, raspberries, chirimoyas, and several other varieties
  
  Temperate fruit is of very high quality and prices are usually much lower than in most of the U.S. and Western Europe, while tropical fruit is rather rare and expensive, except for bananas.
  
  

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All our selection

Here there are all the restaurants and places we have selected for you dividd by suburb:


Bellavista

Il Siciliano + italiano
ilsiciliano@gmail.com
(56)(2) 2459800
Dardignac 0140, Bellavista, Santiago.

Il Siciliano Its a simple place,  wooden tables and the brick walls mades it confi relaxed. The ambience is great, crowded on weekends, but if you go then, you have to go to the second floor and ask for Gabriel, one of the best waiters I know, will fight for your order to come out fast. But the great food its what makes the difference, the “Rissoto di mare” and the “Lasagna formagio” are the dishes you have to order, but you will never go wrong with their whole menu!
The rates goes from 6.000 to 8.000 p.p.

El Meson Nerudiano

Como Agua Para Chocolate

Restaurante Bangkok +Comida Thai

Bellavista



Centro

Mercado Central + Pescados y Mariscos

Confiteria Torres

El Rapido + Autoctono, comida rapida

The Clinic

Pizzas san Martin con Moneda + Italiana

EverGreen + Naturista

Adobes de Argomedo



Barrio Brasil

Los buenos Muchachos + Carnes

Plaza Garibaldi + Mexicana

Ostras Azocar + Mariscos

2008 + Pizzas

Juan y Medio + Autoctono, Comida Chilena

 

Providencia

Bravissimo + heladería, sandwishes

Liguria

Giratorio + Internacional

El huerto + Naturista

Los insaciables + Pizzas

Centre Catalá + Comida Catalana

Santo Remedio

Eladio + carnes

El Parron + Carnes

Sr. Miyagy + sushi

Fuente Alemana + Sandwisheria Alemana

Pad Thai + Comida tailandesa

Majestic + Comida india

Peccatore + Pizzas y Bar

 

Las Condes

Dominó + Sandwishes

La Piccola Italia + italiana

Borde Rio:

La Due Torri + italiana

El Otro Sitio + peruana

El Apero + chilena

Palacio Danubio Azul + Comida China

Pinpilinpausha

Funete Chilena + Sandwisheria

El Happening + Carnes

Mr. Jack + Hamburguesas

Nolita + Inetrnacional

Doña Tina + Autoctona, Comida Chilena


Benihana of Tokio + Japonesa

Bambú Restaurante + naturista vegetariana

Puerto Fuy + Pescados y Mariscos



Vitacura

Mestizo + Chilena Gourmet



Las Tarrias & Bellas Artes

Emporio La Rosa

Patagonia