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Best Food & Drink Destinations in Latin America

31 city guides · 3-day food & drink itineraries

3-day city guides built around local cuisine, street food, markets and dining culture.

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

Guaraní corn-and-cassava cooking, colossal Mercado 4, wood-fired asado and the cold yerba ritual tha…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

Fried-egg arepas at dawn in Soledad, butifarra sausages from Soledad's street carts, fish stew on th…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Mercado Central cheese and cachaça, wood-stove comida mineira, and the boteco bars that made BH Braz…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

Paloquemao's flower-and-fruit halls, chocolate santafereño with cheese, and the Andean tasting menus…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

Pastel and sugarcane juice at the Guará market, carne de sol in Ceilândia, kibe cru at a 1966 politi…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

Covered markets, Corrientes pizza counters, 1930s bar notables and the porteño merienda ritual.…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

Sancocho over wood fire, Pacific coast seafood, sugarcane-belt sweets and the aguardiente-and-salsa …

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

Corn dough at dawn, Chuao cacao at noon and aged Venezuelan rum at night, from Quinta Crespo market …

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

Bazurto market breakfasts, Getsemaní kitchens, corriente lunch counters and Colombian rum bars.…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

Municipal market breakfasts, clay-pot barreado, pinhão season snacks and the immigrant kitchens of S…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

Market comedores, San Blas picanterías, cuy al horno and 60 piscos poured at 3,399 metres…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil

Casquinha de caranguejo on the sand, baião de dois in the Centro, and cold Ceará beer under the trad…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Guayaquil

Shrimp ceviche breakfasts, tuna-and-yuca hangover soup, green plantain in a dozen forms, and Ecuador…

Latin America
🇧🇴 Bolivia

La Paz

Market comedores, api at dawn, tucumana carts and Bolivia's new Andean fine dining, eaten at 3,640 m…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Lima

Amazon-fruit markets, criollo lunch counters, Chinatown woks and Barranco cocktail bars across the w…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Mar Del Plata

Fishermen's-wharf squid, century-old corner bodegones, Chapadmalal's Atlantic vineyards and the brew…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Maracaibo

Zulian cooking at full volume: plantain sandwiches, mojito en coco on the palafitos, tumbarranchos a…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Medellin

Wholesale market breakfasts, arepas de chócolo, tropical fruit stalls, high-altitude Antioquian coff…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Montevideo

Street ferias, 1930s tiled chivito bars, Tannat vineyards on the city edge and century-old drinking …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Porto Alegre

Gaúcho fire-cooked beef, Italian-German colonial cooking, Guaíba-side bars and the country's most ob…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Punta Arenas

Whole-lamb asado over open flame, centolla straight off Strait of Magellan boats, and calafate sours…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Punta Del Este

Fishing-boat langostinos at the port, chivito sandwiches the size of a plate, and Tannat poured besi…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Quito

Colonial market comedores, coastal ceviche at 2,850 m, copper-pan sorbet and Ecuador's most ambitiou…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Recife

Cast-iron market halls, tapioca griddles, ox-tail stew houses and the artisanal cachaça bars of Pern…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

Sunday street markets, 1890s tearooms, Copacabana's pork-and-pineapple sandwich and the petisco coun…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Rosario

Pizza al molde in Italian-immigrant Pichincha, Paraná river fish grilled on the Costanera, and the c…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Salvador

From the pre-dawn chaos of Feira de São Joaquim to clove-steeped cachaça poured on Terreiro de Jesus…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Santiago

Seafood halls on the Mapocho, century-old sandwich counters, pisco flights and a terremoto to finish…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Sao Paulo

Municipal market counters, Liberdade street stalls, the bauru's birthplace and A Casa do Porco's twe…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Ushuaia

Centolla straight from Beagle Channel traps, spit-roasted cordero fueguino, calafate-berry desserts …

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Valparaiso

Dawn fish landings at the caletas, two-floor produce markets, invented-here chorrillana and century-…