Best restaurants in
Providencia
Throughout most of the 20th century, Providencia was Santiago’s premier residential community and attracted the city’s best restaurants. Over the past three decades that prominence has shifted to the suburbs of Las Condes and Vitacura.
But Providencia is still home to many hotels and restaurants, especially casual dining and fast-casual dining establishments targeted at students and travelers staying in the hotels situated within the barrio. Providencia’s dining scene is clearly more Bohemian and unpretentious making it popular with anyone that feels uncomfortable in an upscale restaurant.
Providencia
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: 17° / 56° has a trendy, industrial décor, an interesting, well-executed menu, and a variety of high-quality beers and distilled spirits, all at reasonable prices, making this popular gastropub a great choice for food, libations, or both.
Providencia, Santiago
RATING: 81%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: A “no holds barred” approach to Chilean homemade classics and few unique twists makes 99 a required checkmark on every foodie’s laundry list of “let’s go there” restaurants. See what we liked and what we didn’t in this telling review.
Providencia
RATING: 92%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, Gastropub, Upscale CasualSummary: Ambrosía Bistro, in Providencia, is the hip, casual version of Santiago’s most acclaimed restaurant, Ambrosía. Gourmet cuisine. Reasonable prices. Great experience.
Providencia, Santiago
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Seafood . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, Seafood RestaurantSummary: No excerpt
Barrio Lastarria, Providencia
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Baco is comfortable and laid back. At the same time, slightly classy. Rides the fence between casual and upscale casual. Offers French country cuisine that’s typically well-executed. Friendly, attentive service. Expansive wine list.
Barrio Lastarria, Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Barrio Lastarria, Providencia
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Castillo Forestal serves authentic French cuisine. Rare in Latin America. Minor errors of execution and a somewhat lacking ambience in the main dining area keep Castillo Forestal from living up to its potential. Still, a worth choice, especially at b …
Providencia, Vitacura
RATING: 72%
Cuisine(s): American Cuisine, Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Chili’s in Santiago, Chile. Has a nice rhythm doesn’t it? Sounds better than the food tastes. The only thing worse than the food is the service and the competency of the guys in management.
Las Condes, Providencia
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Eladio. It’s not a restaurant. It’s a tribute to what Chile and Santiago were before McDonald’s and Pizza Hut came to town. It’s the Sunday afternoon sojourn after church in Santiago. Good service and straightforward food that’s familiar keep Santiag …
Providencia
RATING: 74%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Elkika Ilmenau is one of a handful of restaurants Santiago that specialize in serving the city’s famed “completo” (a hot dog on steroids) and the four sandwiches that define Chile’s culinary identity, the Churrasco, the Lomito, the Chacarera, and the …
Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Mexican . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Fast CasualSummary: Envy-Taco dishes out nothing but tacos from a converted trailer at the Merkado Bilbao. The menu may be limited, but the flavors shout “Mexico”.
Providencia, Santiago Centro
RATING: 70%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . 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 …
Providencia
RATING: 73%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Fuente Mardoqueo serves up sandwiches that are big. But big isn’t always better. Fuente Mardoqueo is proof of that. The sandwiches are almost indistinguishable from those at competitor Fuente Alemana. One plus is you won’t likely have to arm-wrestle …
Providencia
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For as close to authentic Japanese cuisine as you’ll find in Santiago, served by a friendly and informative crew of waiters in humble and unpretentious surroundings Goeman is the best, if not the only choice in Santiago.
Providencia
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . 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 …
Providencia
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): German . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Lili Marleen, in an old stately home in the heart of Providencia filled with German relics, brings Deutschland to Santiago. The most kitschy and interesting German ambience in the city. Don’t miss it.
Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Mexican . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Fast CasualSummary: Pinche Gringo is a food-truck located where it want to be, sometimes in Providencia, sometime in Franklin, churning out tasty Mexican tacos, burritos and quesadillas. Food and flavors are great. Quick fix for you Mexican cuisine urges.
