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Anyone got a reccomendation...? might be nice to share good experiences in cuisine in Chile..dont post bad stuff...we dont need to know...
For me ...In Vina area
Pila Marina (seafood soup), Los Compadres Dos at Caleta Portales in Valpo ask for the Pila especial..very clean and no sand $3.200
FIne Cuisine, Radisson Hotel ,ConCon 3 courses starts at $40.000
Seafood Empanadas HORCON...anywhere in HORCON...baked not fried

It is Paila marina , like a pail of seafood

Valparaiso: Pasta y Vino, Pastis, Touri (nice terrace).

Viña: the two restaurants above the casino are good in the mid- and high-end respectively. La Flor de Chile has excellent tortilla and the best pisco sour in town. Divino is another Chilean classic. La Ciboulette is good French/Belgian (though ducks are too small in Chile to make really good magret!). Cap ducal is not earth shattering but has a nice view. Chitake is ok, mild Asian.

Reñaca: Sirocco is the best pizza in town (better than Rucula IMO). Arendano has a limited but nice menu. Entremesas has decent empanadas. Delicias del Mar for Basque.

Concon: Santa Brasa, excellent beef (also available in Santiago), they have homemade pasta too but I haven't tried it yet (Must. Eat. Meat.). La Gatita : good seafood but fashionable so always packed, other restaurants around it are good too. Haven't tried the Radisson yet though I'm bound to do so eventually since our new house is on the coast in the vicinity.

Today's discovery: Tabolango on ruta 60 between Concon to Quillota, has really good parrilladas (with blood sausage which I hadn't eaten in years).

helibel wrote:It is Paila marina , like a pail of seafood

Sorry...I eat way better than I spell

otravers wrote:Valparaiso: Pasta y Vino, Pastis, Touri (nice terrace).

Viña: the two restaurants above the casino are good in the mid- and high-end respectively. La Flor de Chile has excellent tortilla and the best pisco sour in town. Divino is another Chilean classic. La Ciboulette is good French/Belgian (though ducks are too small in Chile to make really good magret!). Cap ducal is not earth shattering but has a nice view. Chitake is ok, mild Asian.

Reñaca: Sirocco is the best pizza in town (better than Rucula IMO). Arendano has a limited but nice menu. Entremesas has decent empanadas. Delicias del Mar for Basque.

Concon: Santa Brasa, excellent beef (also available in Santiago), they have homemade pasta too but I haven't tried it yet (Must. Eat. Meat.). La Gatita : good seafood but fashionable so always packed, other restaurants around it are good too. Haven't tried the Radisson yet though I'm bound to do so eventually since our new house is on the coast in the vicinity.

Today's discovery: Tabolango on ruta 60 between Concon to Quillota, has really good parrilladas (with blood sausage which I hadn't eaten in years).

WOW Awesome list...thanks for that..Its good to know where we can eat and live to post again on the forum

A good restaurant in Viña is that at the Club de VdM: tasty food (not a large, but frequently changed menu), carefully served, though rather expensive. I think that it's open to nonmembers for lunch during the working week.

Pin Pilin Pausha in Santiago centro...
Las Tejuelas en Villarrica...
Angel Bar en Valpo....

Sadly...El Parron...in Provedencia (manl Mntt con 11 de sept) has closed now as of a few years...but was...very, very good

There is a place at the foot of San Cristobal ...name? that is very, very good...

El Arrayan en El Arrayan

El club espanol en Temuco (also el mercado central)

El Tiki Tan en Guanaqueros

En Serena...el club italiano was always good but hard to to get in

En vallenar, el club de tenis...but who goes to vallenar...

En P/Elqui there is the whats its name but you have to tell them you will be there a couple hours ahead so they know...

en Los Vilos...there is the copec...

En Chillan..el mercdo central...where I have always had great seafood????

There used to be a place outside of Osorno...in a big red galpon...estilo huaso...excellent...

There are others, but then the Senora, la cunada and la suegra make it all dim to what any restruarant can do

Really, el asado Chileno...ensalada Chilena, papas cocidas...zanahorrias con huevo duro y alinado con aciete, limon o balsamico....pancito, con pevre...chori-pan al empezar...algo de chicha al ver lo todo mientras cocina....cervezita o fan schop...y al final vinito...costillar, lomo, fillete, cordero...hasta el cilantro tiene su lugar...How is it that it is always the same but a new experience every time...and its just like heaven...if they finally catch me for all I have done i would ask for an asado Chileno as my last meal...partly for the asado chileno and the other part is that they would most likely forgive my sins once they taste it.

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el puelche wrote:There is a place at the foot of San Cristobal ...name? that is very, very good...

Nolita (I haven't tried it) ? Eladio is a good steakhouse in that area.

In Santiago I forgot the Giratorio for the view. Their deserts are really too sweet for my taste though. The Hyatt has several restaurants, they're not cheap, the one we tried is Anakena, which is thai (not the best from my limited knowledge of thai food) but really there's not a huge Asian presence in Chile, is there? Anyone tried the Japanese one?

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I can't remember what its called but it is oddly difficult to find...like almost a cabin in the forest of trees...to get a taxi out they must know to climb the curb and across the park to get you...its very quiet, romantico and good...the meseros are like secret agents...it could be the "motel" of eateries in Santiago, its so ...respectfull of the individual...warm, exclusive but all welcoming...

i have eaten at the giratorio but always found it overcooked, dry and the service was always "en cima"...I never liked their food and although the view beyond the window has always been impressive, I have always been more...appreciative of the view and conversation from just across the salad plate.

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Down south, and about an hour and a half from Valdivia is my favorite restaurant ":De Coigue y Pellin" lovingly built from old wood, great meats, wonderful wine selection, good drinks. Though fantastic for dinner I highly recommend going for a late afternoon meal (not on Mondays). Take the paved road to Futrono from route 5, after about 30 minutes of pretty dairy country look for the signs on the right. Besides the great atmosphere, good food you get to look at a n amazing view. I want to post a photo but don't remember how.

It seems you forgot to mention "San Marco" in Viña del Mar, good italian food althoug not cheap

Here in Arica there is Terra Amata (pricey) and Picada del Muertito, near the cementery at Azapa Valley, among others

El Parrón is open, but I think the management has changed. I haven't been there since.

A few places I have tried lately are El Mesón de la Patagonia in Lo Barnechea and La Copa Feliz in La Reina (Echeñique/Tobalaba). We just went to La Copa Feliz last night for the first time ever after living neaby for years and really liked it. They have a 25% discount for Club de Lectores de El Mercurio.

If you are in Villarrica, "Tejuelas"(across from supermercado oriente---a block away from the terminal de buses) is the best thing going and has a great menu/colacion, with a little wine you get out for about 8 luca ...downtown on alderete...really excellent and is a secret so good that i don't usually share it.

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I recommend Andenrose outside Curacautin, on the road to Volcan Lonquimay and Termas Malalcuhello/Termas Manzanar. Hans the owner is a transplant from Bavaria. He produces excellent
Bavarian fare and periodically hosts chef interns from schools in Europe. Very friendly and not too pricey. I've been there
several times and will certainly go back.