The Best
Casual Dining Restaurants
in Santiago
No need to wear a jacket or a dress. In fact, you can likely get in the front door in a pair of Bermuda shorts. Our picks for the top restaurants in this genre focus on making the dining experience comfortable and unintimidating, and most are more reasonably priced than those in our upscale casual dining category. Some are cozy and quaint. Some are sleek and trendy. Many serve the same quality of cuisine you’d get the world’s most prestigious restaurants but the ambience is warm and inviting. These are places you visit twice week, not twice a year.
Vitacura
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Italian . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Sottovoce has a sleek, sexy décor with an Italian accent and an army of waiters that provide attentive and friendly service. With high-quality imported ingredients and a well-executed menu chock-full of Italian classics and few original dishes, Sotto …
Vitacura
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Peruvian . Cost: $$$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, Family DiningSummary: With a unique well-executed menu, friendly and attentive service and a warm and inviting ambiance that’s equally suited to families, couples and groups, Panchita is the city’s best “non-Nikkei” Peruvian dining experience. But the best, in this case, …
Providencia
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: La Sanguchera, with locations in or near the food courts of several popular shopping malls, sandwiches with fresh ingredients. Seating is right in the frenetic midst of hundreds of mall guests walking from the escalator to the mall food-court. But th …
Santiago
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Eclectic . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Concha y Toro offers a pleasant ambiance on the wine producer’s vineyard on the edge of town for enjoying wine and a gourmet meal at better than reasonable prices.
Providencia
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: 17° / 56° has a trendy, industrial décor, an interesting, well-executed menu, and a variety of high-quality beers and distilled spirits, all at reasonable prices, making this popular gastropub a great choice for food, libations, or both.
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 91%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Peruvian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Chipe Libre is Santiago’s top gastropub. The specialty of the house is pisco and they serve up more than 80 different varieties from both Chile and Peru. Combine the city’s best pisco sours with a menu of well-executed Peruvian classics and you have …
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Castillo Forestal serves authentic French cuisine. Rare in Latin America. Minor errors of execution and a somewhat lacking ambience in the main dining area keep Castillo Forestal from living up to its potential. Still, a worth choice, especially at b …
Providencia
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For as close to authentic Japanese cuisine as you’ll find in Santiago, served by a friendly and informative crew of waiters in humble and unpretentious surroundings Goeman is the best, if not the only choice in Santiago.
Vitacura
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Gastón Acurio’s La Mar is the best restaurant in Buenos Aires to experience a well-rounded dose of Peruvian cuisine with a heavy Nikkei personality. Good service execution of a classic Peruvian menu with all the dishes Acurio made famous.
Las Condes
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Cafetín ofrece un agradable ambiente y café tostado de calidad hecho por baristas entrenados. El menú es limitado y tiene algunas opciones para desayunar, sandwiches, sopas y ensaladas que puedes ser consumidas adentro o en la gran terraza cubierta.
Providencia
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Domani Pizzeria is the place to go for pizzas that are the real deal in a non-pretentious and high-energy ambiance. Reasonable prices, too.
Vitacura
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Brunapoli is one of only a handful of moderately priced restaurants on Nueva Constanera, Vitacura’s restaurant row. And it’s the only one offering great pizza and pasta in a trendy ambiance with a high-energy vibe.
Downtown (El Centro), Las Condes
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Confitería Torres, downtown, transports diners back to the end of the 19th century in a setting where it wouldn’t be uncommon to see President Barros Luco eating his favorite sandwich at the next table. The Las Condes location has a unique French bis …
Providencia
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Eladio. It’s not a restaurant. It’s a tribute to what Chile and Santiago were before McDonald’s and Pizza Hut came to town. It’s the Sunday afternoon sojourn after church in Santiago. Good service and straightforward food that’s familiar keep Santiag …
Barrio Lastarria, Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Bar Liguria is, was and will always be, the quintessential Santiaguino upscale-cantina. Casual but sophisticated. Traditional but trendy and “in vogue”. Almost always good food and good service by a friendly staff.
