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Vitacura
RATING: 94%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, Upscale CasualSummary: Ambrosia in Santiago’s Vitacura community is a casual, but beautifully decorated restaurant with elegant touches. Well-executed menu and friendly, attentive service. Our top pick for upscale casual dining in all of Santiago.
Providencia
RATING: 94%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Ambrosía Bistro, in Providencia, is the hip, casual version of Santiago’s most acclaimed restaurant, Ambrosía. Gourmet cuisine. Reasonable prices. Great experience.
Vitacura
RATING: 94%
Cuisine(s): Seafood . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, Seafood RestaurantSummary: Aqúi Está Coco is seafood with a Chilean (and a bit of Peruvian) flair in a beautifully decorated space. It’s unique personality makes it a destination every diner must visit in Santiago at least once.
Providencia
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Baco is comfortable and laid back. At the same time, slightly classy. Rides the fence between casual and upscale casual. Offers French country cuisine that’s typically well-executed. Friendly, attentive service. Expansive wine list.
Barrio Lastarria, Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . 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
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Bocanáriz offers over 300 Chilean wines, with a range of wine flights and wine verticals. Wines can be paired with dishes from an interesting and well-executed menu. Pleasant décor. Popular, but crowded. Unfortunately, substandard service on our last …
Vitacura
RATING: 75%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$$$ . Restaurant type: Upscale CasualSummary: Rodolfo Guzman’s army of gnomes takes tidbits they find on the forest floor and turns them into food. But there were issues on our recent visit.
Vitacura
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$ . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Café Black Mamba is a specialty coffee spot that doubles as a comfy little restaurant with great sandwiches and salads to compliment they array of craft breads and pastries. With a consumer aggregate rating of 4.7 stars it’s Santiago’s most popular c …
Vitacura
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Grilled Steaks . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Steakhouse, Upscale CasualSummary: Carnal Prime, new to Santiago, but who has a proven track record in Lima, offers a unique infra-red grilling method and high-quality imported beef. Good service too. Order a few oysters on the half shell from the raw bar, followed by a thick, juicy r …
Barrio Italia EN
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic, Spanish . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Casaluz, in Barrio Italia, is wearing silk undergarments below a tattered overcoat. It’s the closest thing to gourmet in Barrio Italia. Good food, service and ambience. And good prices, too.
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Castillo Forestal serves authentic French cuisine. Rare in Latin America. Minor errors of execution and a somewhat lacking ambience in the main dining area keep Castillo Forestal from living up to its potential. Still, a worth choice, especially at b …
Las Condes, Providencia
RATING: 72%
Cuisine(s): American Cuisine, Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Peruvian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Chipe Libre is Santiago’s top gastropub. The specialty of the house is pisco and they serve up more than 80 different varieties from both Chile and Peru. Combine the city’s best pisco sours with a menu of well-executed Peruvian classics and you have …
Bellavista, Providencia
RATING: 92%
Cuisine(s): Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: At Ciudad Vieja, order the Gran Pilón on pan amasado and you’ll get not one, but two good-sized cheeseburger that are juicy with exotic toppings.
Las Condes
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Confitería Torres, downtown, transports diners back to the end of the 19th century in a setting where it wouldn’t be uncommon to see President Barros Luco eating his favorite sandwich at the next table. The Las Condes location has a unique French bis …
Las Condes
RATING: 79%
Cuisine(s): Burgers, Chilean . Cost: $$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Danés is a good, comfortable neighborhood restaurant with better than acceptable service. And although the sandwiches and burgers are bit boring, the hot dogs deserve praise, as do the salads.
Providencia
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Domani Pizzeria is the place to go for pizzas that are the real deal in a non-pretentious and high-energy ambiance. Reasonable prices, too.
La Dehesa, Las Condes
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): Grilled Steaks . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: SteakhouseSummary: Don Carlos takes locally produced steaks, uses the Argentine names of the cuts of beef on the menu, and calls itself an Argentine steakhouse. The most Argentine thing about this restaurant is the lack of creative salads and side dishes. Everything ab …
Vitacura
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): Mexican . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: El Ranchero delivers remarkably authentic Mexican cuisine, without adaptation to please the local palettes, in a pleasant ambience that says “Mexico”. Reasonable prices for big portions, too.
Providencia
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Eladio. It’s not a restaurant. It’s a tribute to what Chile and Santiago were before McDonald’s and Pizza Hut came to town. It’s the Sunday afternoon sojourn after church in Santiago. Good service and straightforward food that’s familiar keep Santiag …
Providencia
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Sandwiches . Cost: $$ . 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: 70%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Fuente Alemana is the one place every Santiaguino will tell you is a “must go” with the city’s best sandwiches. We disagree. Once you strip away the cultural bias, the sandwiches are grossly excessive in size, but short on quality. There is no décor …
Las Condes, Providencia
RATING: 84%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$ . 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: 86%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For as close to authentic Japanese cuisine as you’ll find in Santiago, served by a friendly and informative crew of waiters in humble and unpretentious surroundings Goeman is the best, if not the only choice in Santiago.
Las Condes
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Grilled Steaks . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Steakhouse, Upscale CasualSummary: Happening is the Santiago steakhouse born in Argentina, bred in Chile, that’s married to a gringa. It’s the perfect mix of here, there, then and now.
Providencia
RATING: 77%
Cuisine(s): American Cuisine, Eclectic . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For a selfie photo next to a guitar signed by Lenny Kravitz that he probably never played, Hard Rock Café is your only choice. For good food there are much better options up the escalator. We tell you why in this less-than-favorable review.
Vitacura
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: A well executed menu full of international comfort food that takes the diner on a world tour, from Asia to Italy, from Peru to Mexico. Jeronimo is the new in-vogue gastropub, attracting Santiago’s beautiful people. But exorbitant prices and sketchy s …
Providencia
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): Indian . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Jewel of India is the best choice in Santiago west of Tobalaba for Indian Cuisine, with a well-executed menu full of Indian cuisine classics, with competent service and reasonable prices.
Bellavista, Providencia
RATING: 86%
Cuisine(s): Burgers . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Hamburger RestaurantSummary: A clean, modern take on a German kneipe (pub) with an interesting and well-executed menu. Bar food usually loses something in the translation. But not a Kunstmann Kneipe. It’s good beer and good food!
Vitacura
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Grilled Steaks . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: SteakhouseSummary: La Cabrera offers high-quality beef and expertly grilled steaks and meat appetizers in an atmosphere designed to mimick an Argentine farmhouse but we find the ambience a bit below the prices. The lack of variety in the menu is another drawback. Good …
Providencia
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Sandwiches . Cost: $ . Restaurant type: Fast FoodSummary: La Lucha brings the sandwiches that made Lima’s sangucherías famous to local shopping malls in Santiago. The spicy meat fillings are delicious, but Santiaguinos that prefer mounds of condiments piled on top of their sandwiches may think the sandwiche …
Vitacura
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$ . 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.
Providencia
RATING: 80%
Cuisine(s): German, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: La Sanguchera, with locations in or near the food courts of several popular shopping malls, sandwiches with fresh ingredients. Seating is right in the frenetic midst of hundreds of mall guests walking from the escalator to the mall food-court. But th …
Las Condes
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Italian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Le Due Torri, with three locations in Santiago, is an old school Italian ristorante, Santiaguino-style. Although it falls a bit short of authentic, it’s an admirable attempt, typically with acceptable service and execution of the menu.
Barrio Italia EN, Providencia
RATING: 81%
Cuisine(s): Spanish . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Well-prepared Portuguese inspired cuisine in a pleasant open-air ambience. Reasonable prices. Minor lapses of execution keep this restaurant from living up to its full potential.
Vitacura
RATING: 79%
Cuisine(s): Indian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Although not garnering an overall score as high as Jewel of India or Rishtedar in Vitacura, Majestic remains a viable option for Indian cuisine, especially for anyone living in or staying in a hotel in Las Condes.
La Dehesa, Las Condes
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: A pleasant ambiance in the main dining room and a rear terrace bathed with light. Interesting, well-executed menu. One of the few eclectic gourmet options available to diners in Santiago.
Las Condes, Vitacura
RATING: 78%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Matsuri offers a touristy rendition of Japanese cuisine that needs a bit more heart and soul. Not a bad restaurant. Better than most in Santiago. But still way short of being a great dining experience.
Vitacura
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Seafood . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Notwithstanding the occasional lack of attention at the table by the waiters, a menu with this caliber of ingredients that’s aptly executed in such a memorable ambience makes Mestizo one of the top upscale dining choices in the city.
Vitacura
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, French . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Millefleur is a small café cum bistro with a lot of French personality, offering fresh-baked bread and pastries, a range of breakfast items, sandwiches, salads and a few French classic mains like a Beouf Bourguignon and Coque au Vin. The décor is sty …
Vitacura
RATING: 70%
Cuisine(s): Seafood . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Ocean Pacific’s is a popular seafood restaurant with three locations in Santiago. The décor is impressive, with lots of rare marine and naval artifacts lining the walls. The food and service are average at best, despite some of the highest prices we’ …
Las Condes
RATING: 79%
Cuisine(s): Burgers . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Mr. Jack, once the undisputed champion of burgers in Santiago, is no longer the dominant burger in the city. But with recent improvements to the meat patty and French fries, they remain a formidable contender in the city burger battle. Good burgers a …
Vitacura
RATING: 91%
Cuisine(s): Japanese . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: One of the best, if not the best, Japanese restaurant in Latin America. Popular with both locals and tourists. Trendy, sleek and sexy with a Japanese accent!\
Vitacura
RATING: 69%
Cuisine(s): Seafood . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Ocean Pacific’s is a popular seafood restaurant with three locations in Santiago. The décor is impressive, with lots of rare marine and naval artifacts lining the walls. The food and service are average at best, despite some of the highest prices we’ …
Providencia
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries . Cost: . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Original Coffee Roasters is a casual gourmet restaurant posing as a specialty coffee-shop. Yes. The coffee’s great and the ambiance pleasant. But it’s the food that’s the real star.
Vitacura
RATING: 89%
Cuisine(s): Japanese, Peruvian . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Upscale CasualSummary: Osaka in Vitacura is the Santiago Chile iteration of Lima-based Osaka’s international chain of restaurant’s offering Peru’s Japanese fusion cuisine styled Nikkei. Ambiance and execution of the sophisticated Nikkei menu is top-notch. Service is genera …
Vitacura
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Peruvian . Cost: $$$ . 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, …
Bellavista, Providencia
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Chilean, Eclectic Gourmet . Cost: . Restaurant type: Upscale CasualSummary: Peumayén Ancestral Food takes you on a culinary pilgrimage where you’ll experience the cuisine of Chile’s indigenous people and it’s unique ingredients. As educational as it is delicious.
Las Condes
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Spanish . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Stalwart Basque restaurant, Pinpilinpausha, is close to many of the city’s big hotels. It is a favorite of affluent locals, especially for celebrations. Good service, food and ambience make it one of best choices on Isidora Goyenechea.
Providencia, Vitacura
RATING: 82%
Cuisine(s): Indian . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: The newer and flashier location in Vitacura earns Rishtedar a slightly higher overall rating than competitors in the Indian cuisine genre and gives residents out in the foothills of Vitacura and La Dehesa a viable option in the Indian restaurant genr …
Vitacura
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Great pizza, pasta and salads with super-fresh, high-quality ingredients. Small pleasant décor. Pet friendly. Perhaps the best pizza in town. Very popular, thus very busy. At peak hours expect a wait for table.
Las Condes
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Route 66 is an upscale version of TGI Friday’s. Less kitschy and much better and service. The menu is typical American bistro menu with a few international dishes thrown in for flare. Prices are steep but if you’re putting it on the expense account, …
Vitacura
RATING: 90%
Cuisine(s): Grilled Steaks . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, SteakhouseSummary: Rubaiyat Santiago is the Santiago location of the acclaimed international steakhouse chain, Rubaiyat – Cabañas las Lilas. At Rubaiyat Santiago, you’ll find ribeyes and strip steaks imported from famed beef producers, Cabañas las Lilas in Argentina, a …
Las Condes
RATING: 71%
Cuisine(s): American Cuisine, Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Sport Café, an American-style sports-bar that primarily shows Latin American and European soccer games and tennis matches, offers average food and average service.
Vitacura
RATING: 81%
Cuisine(s): Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, GastropubSummary: Sublime, with a wide assortment of traditional sandwiches done in non-traditional ways in a pleasant environment and all at a reasonable price, is one of several new sandwich shops in Vitacura worth a visit. Our favorite? The pork rib-meat (costillar …
Cerillos, La Florida, La Reina, Las Condes, Providencia
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): Peruvian . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Although Tanta’s shopping-mall chain-restaurant ambience leaves it a bit soulless, the food and service are consistently good, making it perhaps the best choice in Santiago for a reasonably priced sampling of a host of Peruvian classics.
Las Condes, Vitacura
RATING: 85%
Cuisine(s): German . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: For a modern-day take on German culinary classics and plenty of good German beer, you won’t find better than Tante Marlene in Santiago.
Las Condes, Providencia
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Tea Connection, despite sometimes sketchy service, garners high scores for ambience, food and creativity. Slightly pricey, but not unusually so for a restaurant in El Golf.
Bellavista, Providencia
RATING: 74%
Cuisine(s): American Barbecue, American Cuisine, Burgers, Eclectic, Salads, Sandwiches . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: TGI Fridays is a great spot to see incompetent teenagers serving hamburgers and potato-skins … but for good burger there are better options within a couple of blocks.
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 88%
Cuisine(s): French . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Upscale CasualSummary: The Singular Restaurant offers an interesting and well-executed menu with a wide range of regionally harvested ingredients. Service is attentive and friendly. Ambiance is a bit austere.
Las Condes
RATING: 94%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Tiramisu is enormously popular for a good reason. It’s the best casual dining spot in Santiago. A simple but well-executed menu of Italian inspired dishes and pizza, in a warm, rustic décor, with very good service at reasonable prices. Its fame is we …
Bellavista
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Burgers . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Hamburger RestaurantSummary: Burgers and Beer. Uncle Fletch pays homage to the alleged inventor of the burger, Fletcher Davis. Outstanding and unique burgers. And great craft beers on tap. Our favorite spot for burgers in Santiago.
Providencia
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Fast Casual, PizzeriaSummary: Vapiano, an international restaurant franchise, is now in Santiago, bringing popular Italian dishes, antipasto, pasta and pizza to Santiaguinos in a fast-casual format. The restaurant is clean and well-maintained. The décor is very attractive for thi …
Barrio Italia EN
RATING: 83%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Vegan Bunker is a a superb option for vegans and vegetarians. Unique and interesting menu items. Wide array of vegan sandwiches, salads and desserts.
Bellavista, La Reina, Providencia
RATING: 89%
Cuisine(s): Chilean . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Casual Dining, PizzeriaSummary: Vendetta is a modern, trendy take on an Italian trattoria offering a short menu of creative and well-executed Italian dishes. Décor, execution of the menu and service were all impressively good on a recent visit.
Barrio Lastarria
RATING: 87%
Cuisine(s): Coffee - Bread - Pastries, Sandwiches-Salads . Cost: $$$ . Restaurant type: Cafe, Casual DiningSummary: Wonderland Cafe is a whimsical little café that has earned the top spot for cafés in this neighborhood. Decorated in a quirky fashion with an Alice in Wonderland theme. The coffee is high-quality, prepared by baristas. The food menu is short but full …
Vitacura
RATING: 86%
Cuisine(s): Eclectic Gourmet, Peruvian . Cost: $$$$ . Restaurant type: Casual DiningSummary: Zanzibar is the perfect destination for an off-the-wall dining experience that pushes the culinary envelope. A truly exotic and unique menu that’s well-executed in a pleasant and fun environment.