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.
Andrés Bello 2447, Local 5160, Costanera Center
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: La Sanguchera, with locations in or near the food courts of several popular shopping malls, sandwiches with fresh ingredients. Seating is right in the frenetic midst of hundreds of mall guests walking from the escalator to the mall food-court. But th …
El Bosque Norte 145
RATING: 73%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Fuente Mardoqueo serves up sandwiches that are big. But big isn’t always better. Fuente Mardoqueo is proof of that. The sandwiches are almost indistinguishable from those at competitor Fuente Alemana. One plus is you won’t likely have to arm-wrestle …
Av. Pedro de Valdivia 210
RATING: 70%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Fuente Alemana is the one place every Santiaguino will tell you is a “must go” with the city’s best sandwiches. We disagree. Once you strip away the cultural bias, the sandwiches are grossly excessive in size, but short on quality. There is no décor …
Av. Virginia Subercaseaux 210, Pirque
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Eclectic . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Concha y Toro offers a pleasant ambiance on the wine producer’s vineyard on the edge of town for enjoying wine and a gourmet meal at better than reasonable prices.
Andrés de Fuenzalida 48
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . 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.
José Victorino Lastarria 282
RATING: 91%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Peruvian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Chipe Libre is Santiago’s top gastropub. The specialty of the house is pisco and they serve up more than 80 different varieties from both Chile and Peru. Combine the city’s best pisco sours with a menu of well-executed Peruvian classics and you have …
Cardenal José María Caro 390
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Castillo Forestal serves authentic French cuisine. Rare in Latin America. Minor errors of execution and a somewhat lacking ambience in the main dining area keep Castillo Forestal from living up to its potential. Still, a worth choice, especially at b …
Av. Manuel Mont 38
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For as close to authentic Japanese cuisine as you’ll find in Santiago, served by a friendly and informative crew of waiters in humble and unpretentious surroundings Goeman is the best, if not the only choice in Santiago.
Nueva Costanera 4076
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Antonio de Pastrana 2529
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: A short but delightful menu that’s expertly prepared with fresh ingredients. This is a top-notch little restaurant in a great location in Vitacura. Not just worth a visit. It’s worth a visit or two a week.
Don Carlos 3185
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Cafetín offers a pleasant ambiance with high-quality locally roasted coffee churned out by well-trained baristas. Limited menu of well-executed breakfast items, sandwiches, soups and salads that can be enjoyed indoors or out on the large covered terr …
Granaderos 1328
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Nueva Costanera 3961
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Brunapoli is one of only a handful of moderately priced restaurants on Nueva Constanera, Vitacura’s restaurant row. And it’s the only one offering great pizza and pasta in a trendy ambiance with a high-energy vibe.
Isidora Goyenechea 2962
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . 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 …
Av. Ossa 2234
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: 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 …
