Guidebook for Bogotá Distrito Capital
Food Scene
author's restaurant in a lovely traditional Chapinero house, with a focus on organic, fair trade, fresh products. Also nice for a drink or a dessert and it's Just a block away from you!
60 abantu bendawo batusa
Salvo Patria
58-60 Cl. 54aauthor's restaurant in a lovely traditional Chapinero house, with a focus on organic, fair trade, fresh products. Also nice for a drink or a dessert and it's Just a block away from you!
Highly recommeded restaurant with a nouvelle couisine menu offering reinterpretations of Colombian dishes, foscusing on products and recipes from the Pacific Coast. Local but unconventional flavours.
52 abantu bendawo batusa
Mini Mal
56A-52 Tv. 4 BisHighly recommeded restaurant with a nouvelle couisine menu offering reinterpretations of Colombian dishes, foscusing on products and recipes from the Pacific Coast. Local but unconventional flavours.
Good place for meat lovers and cocktail drinkers.
46 abantu bendawo batusa
Gordo Brooklyn Restaurant Bar
145-60 Cl. 65Good place for meat lovers and cocktail drinkers.
Canoe Japanese Tavern
15 - 71 Avenida Calle 116Nice cocktails and sushi bar
Cute café for cakes, desserts, ice cream, natural juices and drinks by the same people of restaurant mini mal. It also has a nice design shop featuring products by some local artists and designers.
dulce mini mal
4-09 Cl. 57Cute café for cakes, desserts, ice cream, natural juices and drinks by the same people of restaurant mini mal. It also has a nice design shop featuring products by some local artists and designers.
Nice relaxed café with internet and a boehmian crowd, in the emblematic Torres del Parque by architect Rogelio Salmona, where they serve breakfast, lunch, coffee and pastries.
11 abantu bendawo batusa
Andante bread and coffee
26-57 Cra. 5Nice relaxed café with internet and a boehmian crowd, in the emblematic Torres del Parque by architect Rogelio Salmona, where they serve breakfast, lunch, coffee and pastries.
pan fino ltda
6-37 Cl. 54Classic style good quality bakery that has existed for decades in Bogotá.
Colombian version of Starbucks, with internet and serving 100% colombian coffee with a terrace on bustling 7th avenue.
182 abantu bendawo batusa
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70Colombian version of Starbucks, with internet and serving 100% colombian coffee with a terrace on bustling 7th avenue.
casa 53 - 76
53-76 Cra. 6nice small café with a terrace, nice for bites and snacks, beers and drinks.
Nice caribbean food restaurant with a good-value lunch menu and a great tropical juices menu, try guayaba agria.
Restaurante Chambaku
7-64 Cl. 63Nice caribbean food restaurant with a good-value lunch menu and a great tropical juices menu, try guayaba agria.
Now a classic in Bogotá, you'll find them all over the place, they have good food, good prices. I especially like their salad bar buffet and their desserts.
40 abantu bendawo batusa
Artisanal Crepes & Waffles
70a-08 Cra. 5Now a classic in Bogotá, you'll find them all over the place, they have good food, good prices. I especially like their salad bar buffet and their desserts.
Nice modern Asian Food restaurant. Walk around this area to discover Bogota's English Style architecture from the 40's. You also find many more nice restaurants: Mordida and Bruto are worth a visit.
112 abantu bendawo batusa
WOK
118-75 Av. Cra 19Nice modern Asian Food restaurant. Walk around this area to discover Bogota's English Style architecture from the 40's. You also find many more nice restaurants: Mordida and Bruto are worth a visit.
Nice Italian restaurant, also with excellent pizzas for delivery
16 abantu bendawo batusa
Di Lucca Chía
Nice Italian restaurant, also with excellent pizzas for delivery
Central Cevicheria
# 85 -14 Cra. 13Yummy upmarket ceviche restaurant.
Conosur
Calle 71#5-65Cool fast food concept, with fresh, healthy options.
Luna
12-20 Cl. 83Good italian restaurant.
Classic-style wood-oven italian pizzas, wine, nice food. There's another one in zona G, Carrera 5 No. 69A-19
12 abantu bendawo batusa
JULIA antipastería - pizzería - enoteca
12-81 Ac. 85Classic-style wood-oven italian pizzas, wine, nice food. There's another one in zona G, Carrera 5 No. 69A-19
It's all, café, a cultural venue, a bar with an interesting bohemian vibe. Good spot when strolling around La Candelaria.
17 abantu bendawo batusa
Six Hands
8-60 Cl. 22It's all, café, a cultural venue, a bar with an interesting bohemian vibe. Good spot when strolling around La Candelaria.
This interesting place is run by an artistci crowd and is both a hip hair saloon and a cafeteria.
La Peluquería Bogotá
5-67 Cl. 18This interesting place is run by an artistci crowd and is both a hip hair saloon and a cafeteria.
La Tapería
6-51 Cl. 27 BisGood Spanish tapas, sangría, wine, etc.
A Colombia-run american dinner-like place for good burgers, nachos, soups etc.
76 abantu bendawo batusa
LA JUGUETERIA La Macarena
#4A-03 Cl. 27A Colombia-run american dinner-like place for good burgers, nachos, soups etc.
Excelent, famous high-end (not cheap but great!) Peruvian restaurant.
33 abantu bendawo batusa
Astrid y Gaston
66-10 Ak. 7Excelent, famous high-end (not cheap but great!) Peruvian restaurant.
Restaurant and bar serving fusion kitchen dishes and cocktails in an alternative / indie music dj setting.
7 abantu bendawo batusa
Mai Lirol Darlin
1050 Cl. 79Restaurant and bar serving fusion kitchen dishes and cocktails in an alternative / indie music dj setting.
Colombian food restaurant with an extra-large Sunday brunch buffet.
73 abantu bendawo batusa
RESTAURANTE DI LUCCA
# 85-32 Cra. 13Colombian food restaurant with an extra-large Sunday brunch buffet.
Try this southern-Colombian treat: corn pastry deep fried mini-pies filled with a special potato and dipped in spicy peanut sauce.
Empanaditas De Pipian
73-11 Cra. 9Try this southern-Colombian treat: corn pastry deep fried mini-pies filled with a special potato and dipped in spicy peanut sauce.
Some say these are the best fast food hamburgers in Bogotá.
13 abantu bendawo batusa
Sierra Nevada - Hamburguesas y Malteadas
88-67 Cra. 15Some say these are the best fast food hamburgers in Bogotá.
gay café with a laid-back atmosphere, layed out in two floors in an nice old house. Nice drinks, music and run by an creative crowd.
Village Cafe Bogota
64-29 Cra. 8gay café with a laid-back atmosphere, layed out in two floors in an nice old house. Nice drinks, music and run by an creative crowd.
Now a classic in Bogotá, you'll find them all over the place, they have good food, good prices. I especially like their salad bar buffet and their desserts.
29 abantu bendawo batusa
Crepes & Waffles Zona T
83-40 Cra. 12aNow a classic in Bogotá, you'll find them all over the place, they have good food, good prices. I especially like their salad bar buffet and their desserts.
Nice option when wanting to work away from home: quiet indoor terrace, serving food and drinks, with wifi connection.
JW Marriott Hotel Bogota
8-60 Cl. 73Nice option when wanting to work away from home: quiet indoor terrace, serving food and drinks, with wifi connection.
This one is a very nice branch with a large outdoor terrace by the Colombian coffee chain. It's in the corner of Calle 73 and Carrera 9 (address wrongly listed in the map).
182 abantu bendawo batusa
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70This one is a very nice branch with a large outdoor terrace by the Colombian coffee chain. It's in the corner of Calle 73 and Carrera 9 (address wrongly listed in the map).
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70Nice branch of the Colombian coffee chain.
Nick's
Cool laid-back beer, wine, cocktails and sandwich bar.
Drinks & Nightlife
nice local and young hang-out offering good value beer from this local brewery chain from Bogotá.
33 abantu bendawo batusa
BBC Bodega Lourdes
4-07 Cl. 59nice local and young hang-out offering good value beer from this local brewery chain from Bogotá.
Statua Rota Brewery
21-54 Cl. 40Beer and bbq grill bar for the cool kids of Chapinero.
Bar La Ventana
Bar and concert venue, with a young cool crowd, nice rooftoop terrace for drinks.
Cool Bar and Club in a building with 4 floors, great rooftop bar with electronic music, better during the week as it gets too busy on weekends.
118 abantu bendawo batusa
Armando Records
14-46 Ac. 85Cool Bar and Club in a building with 4 floors, great rooftop bar with electronic music, better during the week as it gets too busy on weekends.
Really cool and trendy bar and club in Bogotá. Guest national and international DJ's, good music, good drinks, nice atmosphere, beautiful people.
45 abantu bendawo batusa
EL COQ
13-85 Cl. 84AReally cool and trendy bar and club in Bogotá. Guest national and international DJ's, good music, good drinks, nice atmosphere, beautiful people.
minuscule gay bar with 80's pop videos and cheap beer. Next door gay joint el perro y la calandria offers a more gay, less cool but very authentic experience with latin and spanish singer videos.
Indie Cave - Music Bar
9-10 Calle 57minuscule gay bar with 80's pop videos and cheap beer. Next door gay joint el perro y la calandria offers a more gay, less cool but very authentic experience with latin and spanish singer videos.
Nick s
7779 Cra. 9tiny bar in a nice location, with cocktails and nice sandwiches.
Trendy bar where you can sit down for cocktails or eat, nice decoration and terrace, cool music. Walk calle 79B all the way up from Carrera 9 and check out the antique shops and design shops as well.
65 abantu bendawo batusa
El Bandido Bistro
7-12 Cl. 79bTrendy bar where you can sit down for cocktails or eat, nice decoration and terrace, cool music. Walk calle 79B all the way up from Carrera 9 and check out the antique shops and design shops as well.
Very cool rooftop terrace bar with DJ's and a great view over Bogotá. Enter the hotel and take the elevator to the last floor.
8 abantu bendawo batusa
Bioxury Hotel
9 – 48 Cl. 83Very cool rooftop terrace bar with DJ's and a great view over Bogotá. Enter the hotel and take the elevator to the last floor.
Cool club featuring live dj's and music, where you can dance to local and fusion rythms like champeta, latin funk etc.
8 abantu bendawo batusa
Latora 4 Brazos
40B Cra. 8Cool club featuring live dj's and music, where you can dance to local and fusion rythms like champeta, latin funk etc.
If you like an edgy artistic crowd and rocky music, this is the place to go.
Asylum cinema gallery bar
40-43 Av. CaracasIf you like an edgy artistic crowd and rocky music, this is the place to go.
Cocktail bar with a terrace that is on the pricey side but serves a wide range of well made cocktails.
22 abantu bendawo batusa
PRAVDA
83-10 Cra. 12aCocktail bar with a terrace that is on the pricey side but serves a wide range of well made cocktails.
Classic Irish Pub style bar with terrace serving also some decent (and more colombian or int'l) snacks and long drinks.
25 abantu bendawo batusa
The Pub
#83-48 Cra. 12aClassic Irish Pub style bar with terrace serving also some decent (and more colombian or int'l) snacks and long drinks.
En Obra
64 Cra. 5Good cocktails and bites in this industrial style space decorated with loungy cool chairs.
If your thing is salsa dancing, hit for this authentic flavour salsa joint insipred in Cali's salsa clubs from the 70's.
Titicó Gril, Salsa
13- 35 Cl. 64If your thing is salsa dancing, hit for this authentic flavour salsa joint insipred in Cali's salsa clubs from the 70's.
Shopping
Nice cake shop, try torta de amapola (poppy seed cake) and guanábana ice cream (delicious tropical fruit).
Cascabel
2-84 Cl. 74Nice cake shop, try torta de amapola (poppy seed cake) and guanábana ice cream (delicious tropical fruit).
Clothing store and accessories label for men by a local designer. Next door you find a couple more shops by local creatives.
juan
54A-36 Ak. 7Clothing store and accessories label for men by a local designer. Next door you find a couple more shops by local creatives.
Great shop in the middle of the antique's shop district where you can get lost browsing local old and vintage books and paraphernalia.
LIBRERIA ERRATA
61-16 Cra. 9Great shop in the middle of the antique's shop district where you can get lost browsing local old and vintage books and paraphernalia.
Large office and stationery shop, copy & reproduction center, opens 24 hours
COMERCIAL PAPELERA CALIDAD SERVICIO PRECIO
7-19 Cl. 46Large office and stationery shop, copy & reproduction center, opens 24 hours
Atlantis Plaza Shopping Mall
# 13 05 Cl. 81Shopping mall
El Retiro Shopping Center
11-75 Cl. 81High-end shopping mall
This is THE official Colombian handcrafts store. Everything here is authentic, garanteed and directly promotes Colombian artisans.
17 abantu bendawo batusa
Artesanías de Colombia
13-10 Cl. 86aThis is THE official Colombian handcrafts store. Everything here is authentic, garanteed and directly promotes Colombian artisans.
Lots of classic coffee-table books with nice photography about Colombia made by this traditional and renowned Colombian publishing house.
Villegas Editores
##11-50 Cl. 84aLots of classic coffee-table books with nice photography about Colombia made by this traditional and renowned Colombian publishing house.
Local Fashion Designer Julieta has been designing female clothing now for years in Bogotá, and has a nice chic boutique in an even nicer street.
Julieta Suárez
7-90 Cl. 79bLocal Fashion Designer Julieta has been designing female clothing now for years in Bogotá, and has a nice chic boutique in an even nicer street.
Upmarket shopping mall in the middle of Zona Rosa with international clothing labels, perfumes & cosmetics, banks, food court and original language spanish subtitled Cinemas.
527 abantu bendawo batusa
Andino Shopping Mall
82-71 Cra. 11Upmarket shopping mall in the middle of Zona Rosa with international clothing labels, perfumes & cosmetics, banks, food court and original language spanish subtitled Cinemas.
Good bakery with all the colombian speciality breads, in case you want to taste almojábanas, pandeyucas or buñuelos. They also serve breakfast and have delivery service.
11 abantu bendawo batusa
PAN PA´YA CHAPINERO
6-22 Cl. 58Good bakery with all the colombian speciality breads, in case you want to taste almojábanas, pandeyucas or buñuelos. They also serve breakfast and have delivery service.
Essentials
Large Supermarket where you find local produce and a large assortment of fresh vegetables and fruits.
34 abantu bendawo batusa
Surtifruver
#58-18 Ak. 7Large Supermarket where you find local produce and a large assortment of fresh vegetables and fruits.
Very large supermarket by the Exito chain where you can find pretty much everything: from food and bakery, to underwear and kitchenware.
36 abantu bendawo batusa
Exito Supermarket
13-70 Cl. 52Very large supermarket by the Exito chain where you can find pretty much everything: from food and bakery, to underwear and kitchenware.
Large Supermarket by the Carulla Chain, if you want a bit upmarket, imported products, wine, shiny fruits and fresh veggies, etc, Carulla has it all. It also opens 24 hours.
128 abantu bendawo batusa
Carulla Calle 63
7-09 Cl. 63Large Supermarket by the Carulla Chain, if you want a bit upmarket, imported products, wine, shiny fruits and fresh veggies, etc, Carulla has it all. It also opens 24 hours.
Éxito Express Carrera 7 Con 45
45 - 19 Ak. 7small version of the exito supermarket
Arts & Culture
Art Gallery featuring works by colombian and local artists.
12 abantu bendawo batusa
Valenzuela Klenner Gallery
26 Cra. 5Art Gallery featuring works by colombian and local artists.
New art gallery space with national and international artists on show.
13 abantu bendawo batusa
NC-arte
# 26B - 76 Cra. 5New art gallery space with national and international artists on show.
Contemporary art space with a nice art library and shop, constant exhibitions on display. In the neighbouring streets you find many more independent art galleries.
FLORA ars+natura
20C-48 Cl. 77Contemporary art space with a nice art library and shop, constant exhibitions on display. In the neighbouring streets you find many more independent art galleries.
One of Bogota´s best museums featuring a great colection of indigenous treaures and gold figures.
901 abantu bendawo batusa
Igumbi lezinto (Museo del Oro)
15-88 Cra. 6One of Bogota´s best museums featuring a great colection of indigenous treaures and gold figures.
Traditional museum about diffrent aspects of Colombia, history, arts, culture etc.
43 abantu bendawo batusa
Colombian National Museum
N. 28-66 Carrera 7Traditional museum about diffrent aspects of Colombia, history, arts, culture etc.
Constant program of contemporary art exhibitions. Around the corner on carrera 6 you find Cine Tonalá, a cool bohemian hang out serving lunch, dinner, dj's, an art bookstore, a gallery and a cinema.
Biblioteca de Arte y Cultura Colsubsidio
Constant program of contemporary art exhibitions. Around the corner on carrera 6 you find Cine Tonalá, a cool bohemian hang out serving lunch, dinner, dj's, an art bookstore, a gallery and a cinema.
Nice small concert venue for imrpovised, folk and jazz live music.
11 abantu bendawo batusa
Matik Matik
67-20 Cra. 11Nice small concert venue for imrpovised, folk and jazz live music.
Classic Sunday-only flea market. I like to walk or bike on 7th Ave. during the ciclovía time (the whole avenue is pedestrian or bike only on Sunday morning's) to end up strolling around the market.
61 abantu bendawo batusa
Isitolo se-Pulgas se-San Alejo
2470 Cra. 7Classic Sunday-only flea market. I like to walk or bike on 7th Ave. during the ciclovía time (the whole avenue is pedestrian or bike only on Sunday morning's) to end up strolling around the market.
Theater and cutltural events venue with an interesting ongoing program of varied activities.
62 abantu bendawo batusa
Casa E
# 41-69 Cra. 24Theater and cutltural events venue with an interesting ongoing program of varied activities.
Check out the Artecámara art gallery space in this modern building. There's a program of contemporary art exhibitions by Colombian artists always on display.
Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
8-32 Calle 67Check out the Artecámara art gallery space in this modern building. There's a program of contemporary art exhibitions by Colombian artists always on display.
Everything Else
Very Large GYM from the Bodytech chain with all the necessary equipment and installations for a full training. They also sell multiple ticket entry packages, without the need of a yearly contracts.
36 abantu bendawo batusa
Bodytech Chapinero
63-25 Ak. 7Very Large GYM from the Bodytech chain with all the necessary equipment and installations for a full training. They also sell multiple ticket entry packages, without the need of a yearly contracts.
Live Yoga Center
69A-09 Cra. 4Yoga center
Yoga Studio
Yoga studio offering one entry lessons or package deals.
Pilates ProWorks® Bogotá
4a-62 Cl. 66Pilates studio
CrossFit Bogota
86a-51 Cra. 13Cross fit training
Food scene
CASA
#85 - 24 Cra. 13Excellent restaurant with an international mediterrean cuisine menu
Fresh produce oriented restaurant in the Usaquén district with a good fusion menu.
Recently opened a branch in the Quinta Camacho neighbourhood (closer to your home), on Calle 69A # 9-09.
27 abantu bendawo batusa
Abasto
9-09 Cl. 69aFresh produce oriented restaurant in the Usaquén district with a good fusion menu.
Recently opened a branch in the Quinta Camacho neighbourhood (closer to your home), on Calle 69A # 9-09.