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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.

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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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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