Restaurants in Bogota

[cbarre02]

I am going to bogota in 3 weeks and was wondering, what are the best restaurant's there. Doesn't matter what type of cuisne.

[LJC]

Andres Carne De Reys is a must. This is about the most fun I have ever had in a restaurant. It is 300 plus seat steak house/dance (with your waitress) on the table till 4am party.

[cbarre02]

Is this in chia?

[LJC]

Yes it is in Chia about 45min drive (safe) outside of Bogota. It is well worth the trip, I will see if my wife has some photos I can post. We also ate at a brasserie called Balzac in the Zona Rosa and a great Spanish restaurant in the old city but I can't remember the name. Balzac was like eating at Balthazar on Spring St. in NYC; fashionable crowd and pretty good brasserie classics. I highly recommend a quest for Jaiaco (spelling?) the typical Columbian chicken soup.

[LJC]

Will Bogota be your only stop?

[LJC]

An other cultural (as opposed to culinary) must is the Botero Museum in the old city. They have an enormous collection donated by Botero himself.

[cbarre02]

I have been to the Botero Museum, and yes it is fabulous. Bogotá is my only stop this time, however I do frequent other parts of Colombia (I try to go once every 6 months). The soup that you spoke of is one of my very favorite Colombian dishes, and I love all of the condiments that are served with it: caper, crema, avocado, etc. I am exited to back again, to see family and all the empanadas in the streets.

[cbarre02]

By the way this is my boyfriends accound and I, Holly, am the one that is going.

[LJC]

Have a great time and I hope you can make it to Andres Carne de Reyes; it really is great.

[LJC]

So cbarre02,

Have you made it back yet? What did you eat, any highlights? Did you make it to Andres?

[cbarre02]

Trip was postponed... leaving on the 17th, but deffinately goning to Andres.

Thanks!!!!

[LJC]

Here are some photos from our last trip to Colombia. First is Andres Carne De Reys and then I threw in some shots form Los Islas del Rosarios, which by the way is also a great place to visit.

http://images.egullet.com/u12701/i2957.jpg

Rosarios - Sea Vendor offerings

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Rosarios - eating lunch

[cbarre02]

We've been to isla del rosario... seeing these photo's makes me nastalgic. We didn't have the lobster there, i have to admit your lunch looks better than ours did. We went diving and had fish with coconut rice and all the rest of the goodies. Leaving tomarrow, will tell you all about it when i come back. Thanks for the input

choa!

[LJC]

How was it? Where did you eat?

[LJC]

Have you made it back? ..... I hope so.

[cbarre02]

Made it back... Bogota was wonderful as usual. Was very busy there the whole time, so i didn't dine out much. I did make it to andres though.... what a party. I love the sancocho at the end, but i don't know that it helped that much... hahaha. Thanks for the tip about the place, it was a blast.

[LJC]

Just down in Columbia and once again had the best time at Andres Carne De Reys. This place is such a party, we ate, drank, danced, drank and drank till 4 am and then made the drive back to bogota. It is almost worth the trip alone.

[Peter Green]

I'm wondering.....

There's a place about 45 minutes drive from the centre that is described as "a shack, with another shack added, and another, and another....and it seats several hundred".

Is this Andres?

Besides Andres, with three nights in Bogota (don't ask) what other two places would be on the must eat?

Plus, what particular dishes are on the "must eat" menu for Columbia?

And, of course, what's on the "must drink" list?

Cheers,

Peter