In Santiago, there are many lots of good restaurants, but also lots of bad ones. For really excellent food, I like Astrid & Gaston in Providencia (the original A&G is in Lima and is great too). Try the cocktail made with Peruvian Pisco and Tomalillo? - it's a high Andean fruit kind of like a tomato, but looks a bit like a huge red caperberry. Also in Santiago, the vegetarian restaurant El Huerto (next to it's sister restaurant La Huerta - Orrego Luco 954 Tel: 233 26 90 both great. Just around the corner is the Hotel Orly (corner of Providencia & Pedro de Valdivia), that has a great cafe called Caffetto. The best selection for is buying Chilean wines is at Mundo del Vino, there's great Sushi at across from the Intercontinental (can't remember the name). All seafood is good, although I find Chilean cuisine to be generally lacking flavor - a shame with the raw materials there. If you like to explore, there is a LOT of interesting food to be found . . .
