Guidebook for Bogotá Distrito Capital

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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 locals recommend
Salvo Patria
58-60 Cl. 54a
60 locals recommend
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!
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 locals recommend
Mini Mal
56A-52 Tv. 4 Bis
52 locals recommend
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.
Good place for meat lovers and cocktail drinkers.
46 locals recommend
Gordo Brooklyn Restaurant Bar
145-60 Cl. 65
46 locals recommend
Good place for meat lovers and cocktail drinkers.
Nice cocktails and sushi bar
23 locals recommend
Canoe Japanese Tavern
15 - 71 Avenida Calle 116
23 locals recommend
Nice 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. 57
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.
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 locals recommend
Andante bread and coffee
26-57 Cra. 5
11 locals recommend
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.
Classic style good quality bakery that has existed for decades in Bogotá.
pan fino ltda
6-37 Cl. 54
Classic 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 locals recommend
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70
182 locals recommend
Colombian version of Starbucks, with internet and serving 100% colombian coffee with a terrace on bustling 7th avenue.
nice small café with a terrace, nice for bites and snacks, beers and drinks.
casa 53 - 76
53-76 Cra. 6
nice 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. 63
Nice 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 locals recommend
Artisanal Crepes & Waffles
70a-08 Cra. 5
40 locals recommend
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.
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 locals recommend
WOK
118-75 Av. Cra 19
112 locals recommend
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.
Nice Italian restaurant, also with excellent pizzas for delivery
16 locals recommend
Di Lucca Chía
16 locals recommend
Nice Italian restaurant, also with excellent pizzas for delivery
Yummy upmarket ceviche restaurant.
41 locals recommend
Central Cevicheria
# 85 -14 Cra. 13
41 locals recommend
Yummy upmarket ceviche restaurant.
Cool fast food concept, with fresh, healthy options.
Conosur
Calle 71#5-65
Cool fast food concept, with fresh, healthy options.
Good italian restaurant.
Luna
12-20 Cl. 83
Good italian restaurant.
Classic-style wood-oven italian pizzas, wine, nice food. There's another one in zona G, Carrera 5 No. 69A-19
12 locals recommend
JULIA antipastería - pizzería - enoteca
12-81 Ac. 85
12 locals recommend
Classic-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 locals recommend
Six Hands
8-60 Cl. 22
17 locals recommend
It'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. 18
This interesting place is run by an artistci crowd and is both a hip hair saloon and a cafeteria.
Good Spanish tapas, sangría, wine, etc.
21 locals recommend
La Tapería
6-51 Cl. 27 Bis
21 locals recommend
Good Spanish tapas, sangría, wine, etc.
A Colombia-run american dinner-like place for good burgers, nachos, soups etc.
76 locals recommend
LA JUGUETERIA La Macarena
#4A-03 Cl. 27
76 locals recommend
A Colombia-run american dinner-like place for good burgers, nachos, soups etc.
Excelent, famous high-end (not cheap but great!) Peruvian restaurant.
33 locals recommend
Astrid y Gaston
66-10 Ak. 7
33 locals recommend
Excelent, 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 locals recommend
Mai Lirol Darlin
1050 Cl. 79
7 locals recommend
Restaurant 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 locals recommend
RESTAURANTE DI LUCCA
# 85-32 Cra. 13
73 locals recommend
Colombian 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. 9
Try 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 locals recommend
Sierra Nevada - Hamburguesas y Malteadas
88-67 Cra. 15
13 locals recommend
Some 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. 8
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.
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 locals recommend
Crepes & Waffles Zona T
83-40 Cra. 12a
29 locals recommend
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.
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. 73
Nice 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 locals recommend
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70
182 locals recommend
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).
Nice branch of the Colombian coffee chain.
182 locals recommend
Juan Valdez Café
6-09 Cl. 70
182 locals recommend
Nice branch of the Colombian coffee chain.
Cool laid-back beer, wine, cocktails and sandwich bar.
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 locals recommend
BBC Bodega Lourdes
4-07 Cl. 59
33 locals recommend
nice local and young hang-out offering good value beer from this local brewery chain from Bogotá.
Beer and bbq grill bar for the cool kids of Chapinero.
25 locals recommend
Statua Rota Brewery
21-54 Cl. 40
25 locals recommend
Beer and bbq grill bar for the cool kids of Chapinero.
Bar and concert venue, with a young cool crowd, nice rooftoop terrace for drinks.
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 locals recommend
Armando Records
14-46 Ac. 85
118 locals recommend
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.
Really cool and trendy bar and club in Bogotá. Guest national and international DJ's, good music, good drinks, nice atmosphere, beautiful people.
45 locals recommend
EL COQ
13-85 Cl. 84A
45 locals recommend
Really 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 57
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.
tiny bar in a nice location, with cocktails and nice sandwiches.
Nick s
7779 Cra. 9
tiny 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 locals recommend
El Bandido Bistro
7-12 Cl. 79b
65 locals recommend
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.
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 locals recommend
Bioxury Hotel
9 – 48 Cl. 83
8 locals recommend
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.
Cool club featuring live dj's and music, where you can dance to local and fusion rythms like champeta, latin funk etc.
8 locals recommend
Latora 4 Brazos
40B Cra. 8
8 locals recommend
Cool 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. Caracas
If 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 locals recommend
PRAVDA
83-10 Cra. 12a
22 locals recommend
Cocktail 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 locals recommend
The Pub
#83-48 Cra. 12a
25 locals recommend
Classic Irish Pub style bar with terrace serving also some decent (and more colombian or int'l) snacks and long drinks.
Good cocktails and bites in this industrial style space decorated with loungy cool chairs.
En Obra
64 Cra. 5
Good 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. 64
If 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. 74
Nice 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. 7
Clothing 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. 9
Great 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. 46
Large office and stationery shop, copy & reproduction center, opens 24 hours
Shopping mall
128 locals recommend
Atlantis Plaza Shopping Mall
# 13 05 Cl. 81
128 locals recommend
Shopping mall
High-end shopping mall
130 locals recommend
El Retiro Shopping Center
11-75 Cl. 81
130 locals recommend
High-end shopping mall
This is THE official Colombian handcrafts store. Everything here is authentic, garanteed and directly promotes Colombian artisans.
17 locals recommend
Artesanías de Colombia
13-10 Cl. 86a
17 locals recommend
This 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. 84a
Lots 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. 79b
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.
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 locals recommend
Andino Shopping Mall
82-71 Cra. 11
527 locals recommend
Upmarket 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 locals recommend
PAN PA´YA CHAPINERO
6-22 Cl. 58
11 locals recommend
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.

Essentials

Large Supermarket where you find local produce and a large assortment of fresh vegetables and fruits.
34 locals recommend
Surtifruver
#58-18 Ak. 7
34 locals recommend
Large 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 locals recommend
Exito Supermarket
13-70 Cl. 52
36 locals recommend
Very 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 locals recommend
Carulla Calle 63
7-09 Cl. 63
128 locals recommend
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.
small version of the exito supermarket
8 locals recommend
Éxito Express Carrera 7 Con 45
45 - 19 Ak. 7
8 locals recommend
small version of the exito supermarket

Arts & Culture

Art Gallery featuring works by colombian and local artists.
12 locals recommend
Valenzuela Klenner Gallery
26 Cra. 5
12 locals recommend
Art Gallery featuring works by colombian and local artists.
New art gallery space with national and international artists on show.
13 locals recommend
NC-arte
# 26B - 76 Cra. 5
13 locals recommend
New 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. 77
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.
One of Bogota´s best museums featuring a great colection of indigenous treaures and gold figures.
901 locals recommend
Gold Museum (Museo del Oro)
15-88 Cra. 6
901 locals recommend
One 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 locals recommend
Colombian National Museum
N. 28-66 Carrera 7
43 locals recommend
Traditional 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 locals recommend
Matik Matik
67-20 Cra. 11
11 locals recommend
Nice 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 locals recommend
Mercado de las Pulgas de San Alejo
2470 Cra. 7
61 locals recommend
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.
Theater and cutltural events venue with an interesting ongoing program of varied activities.
62 locals recommend
Casa E
# 41-69 Cra. 24
62 locals recommend
Theater 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 67
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.

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 locals recommend
Bodytech Chapinero
63-25 Ak. 7
36 locals recommend
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.
Yoga center
Live Yoga Center
69A-09 Cra. 4
Yoga center
Yoga studio offering one entry lessons or package deals.
Yoga Studio
Yoga studio offering one entry lessons or package deals.
Pilates studio
Pilates ProWorks® Bogotá
4a-62 Cl. 66
Pilates studio
Cross fit training
CrossFit Bogota
86a-51 Cra. 13
Cross fit training

Food scene

Excellent restaurant with an international mediterrean cuisine menu
16 locals recommend
CASA
#85 - 24 Cra. 13
16 locals recommend
Excellent 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 locals recommend
Abasto
9-09 Cl. 69a
27 locals recommend
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.