Medellin for foodies

Best restaurants

Medellin eats loudly. The city's restaurant map runs from Laureles taquerías that hold the counter until midnight to Comuna 13 kitchens where the pot of the day is decided at breakfast, and the twelve rooms below are the ones worth planning an afternoon around. This is a list for a visitor who wants to eat where the neighbourhood eats: a Pacific-coast seafood counter in the Centro, an ajiaco cook off Circular 3, a wings bar that only opens once the sun has dropped, an Italian bakery whose day ends at noon. Every venue here is mapped and verifiable, with an address, a phone, and posted hours you can plan against. Skip the tourist strips that promise a little of everything and deliver a little of nothing. Bring cash for the smaller kitchens, patience for the ones that queue, and an appetite that can move from a taco to a tamarind wing to a bowl of sancocho without complaint. The order below is our ranking, not the city's; read it as twelve arguments for eating outside your hotel block.